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SPEAKING OUT
Turkia Mullin
Chief Development Officer and Assistant Executive for Wayne County
"We went to the Michigan Economic Development Corp. and the state months back and said, 'Hey guys, we see this as big picture, this could save tons of people money, and we're afraid people aren't going to act fast enough. So why not take the initiative and have the governor use a directive or mandate that if you don't use (the bond capacity) by March 31 it reverts back to the state?' Otherwise, it's going to revert back to the feds and none of us will get any benefit."
A stimulus-act bond program that can significantly reduce the cost of private projects has been well utilized in Wayne County — so well, county officials say, that they'd like the state to redistribute bond capacity allocated to other counties that aren't taking advantage of the program. Read the story »
Mohammed Arsiwala
Doctor founded Michigan Urgent Care Centers
An urgent care chain founded by Mohammed Arsiwala, M.D., an internist turned small-business man, has opened its ninth center, in Grosse Pointe Woods. Read the story »
Maureen Donohue Krauss
Oakland County director of economic development and community affairs
It wasn't that long ago that the employees of Diadem Precision Technology Inc. in Troy were designing and producing parts for cars. Read the story »
Dave Bing
Detroit mayor
Metro Detroit could soon go from two Detroit River bridge projects to none, a potential traffic and logistics migraine that's considered unlikely but has those involved warning that the region is poised to lose jobs if they fail. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Josh Linkner
ePrize L.L.C.'s chief idea guy
"Leadership is improvising, like jazz, creating. That's who I am at my core. Your role becomes more like a symphony conductor, orchestrating."
Josh Linkner, 39, announced on Feb. 8 that he was stepping down as CEO of the Pleasant Ridge-based online promotions and sweepstakes company he founded in 1999 to focus on new ideas, strategies and business relationships. Read the story »
Bill Sullivan
Director of the 2-1-1 health and human services hot line for United Way
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan plans to launch a pilot program in March to embed “food navigators” in school districts in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties to make free and reduced-cost meals more accessible to needy students. Read the story »
Sharon Parks
President and CEO of the Michigan League for Human Services
There are lots of Michigan eyes on Washington right now, on the lookout for a key chunk of the state's proposed budget. Read the story »
Lou Glazer
Michigan Future President
Four Michigan foundations have committed $13 million to open the first of 35 new college preparatory high schools planned for metro Detroit over the next eight years. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Jill Elder
Senior executive director of Southeast Michigan for the American Cancer Society, Great Lakes Division
"We fund as many grant applications as we possibly can with the resources we have."
Sixteen local philanthropists and a foundation have committed just under $1 million between 2009 and 2013 to provide three-year fellowships to young Michigan cancer researchers who otherwise would go unfunded. Read the story »
Tomasine Marx
Vice president of finance with St. John Health System
Michigan may have saved nearly $22 million last year by furloughing state workers, but the unpaid days off have contributed to hundreds of millions of dollars of Medicaid payment delays to providers, according to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. Read the story »
Dawn Jinsky
Relationship manager and head of the estate planning practice at Plante Moran Financial Advisors L.L.C.
inancial planners say there's a lot of uncertainty swirling around estate planning right now because of a 2001 law that repealed this year's federal estate tax. Read the story »
Dick Purtan
WOMC-FM 104.3 radio personality
When yawning and bleary-eyed metro Detroiters begin their day on March 29, absent from their car radios for the first time in 45 years will be the voice of Dick Purtan. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Bob Page
Owner of Page Toyota
"Toyota has done a great job of stepping up to this and a great job of paying for this."
Local Toyota dealers say they're ready to fix recalled cars and can handle the slowdown in sales. Their biggest challenge, they say, is communication. Read the story »
Jeffrey Williams
Accuri CEO
Having led two Ann Arbor biotech companies to successful sales, Jeffrey Williams hopes to lead another to a profitable exit. Read the story »
Marie Donigan
Chairwoman of the state House Committee on Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs
Work group discussion among lawmakers and stakeholders began last month in Lansing on a trio of bills that would authorize a regional mass-transit authority for metro Detroit — talks expected to pave the way to formal House debate in March. Read the story »
Paul Gieleghem
Chairman of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners and one of the “Big 4” elected officials
The high-profile light rail project on Detroit's Woodward Avenue gets the headlines, but a $927 million system of three dedicated bus corridors dubbed the “golden triangle” is the true core of the region's proposed mass transit plan. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Bruce McCully
Owner of Dynamic Edge
"There's some discussion in our company about whether the most important thing is backups or security, but from my standpoint, if you don't have the data to restore, you're really in a bad spot. So number one is backups, number two is security."
Computer systems and security patches aren't the most exciting part of small-business ownership, said Bruce McCully, owner of Ann Arbor-based Dynamic Edge, a small-business-oriented IT service provider. Read the story »
Irene Dimitry
Director of renewable energy, DTE Energy Co.
DTE Energy Co. and Ford Motor Co. are among several large Southeast Michigan companies supporting, in part, federal legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 40 years through a market-based trading system. Read the story »
Jeff Spilman
Managing partner, S3 Entertainment Group Inc.
The investors in Michigan Motion Picture Studios L.L.C. could obtain up to $28 million in bond financing for a movie production and training center in Pontiac on Wednesday — exactly a year after the project was first announced. Read the story »
Ben Kazez
Application developer with startup Mobiata L.L.C.
Consumer desire for Apple Inc.'s new iPad multi-touch tablet computer is expected to be driven in part by applications, potentially fueling new revenue streams for metro Detroit's growing app developer community. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Maud Lyon
Executive director of the Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan
"If we can help our members operate more efficiently on that backhouse side, they can contribute more of the money they have towards their mission."
Local and national foundations have for years nudged nonprofits to look for ways they can operate together to cut costs. Read the story »
Rip Rapson
President of the Kresge Foundation
In four to six months, Detroit could have the broad-brush outlines of a land use plan that encompasses the principles of shrinking the city by consolidating investment in key neighborhoods — if Detroit Mayor Dave Bing accepts an offer from a metro Detroit foundation to fund the creation of such a plan. Read the story »
Richard Carlisle
President of Carlisle/Wortman Associates L.L.C.
The trickle of projects in the local construction pipeline has meant a lot less business for most planning consultants, but one Ann Arbor firm sees the situation as a chance for growth. Read the story »
Karen Davidson
Owner of the Detroit Pistons
Karen Davidson's decision to possibly sell the Detroit Pistons, among other assets from her late husband's $1 billion estate, has raised the inevitable question of why. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Larry Malace
Owner of Malace & Associates Inc.
"Coming out of the recession or even in it, companies are looking at what their core competencies are and evaluating their business models. They are separating their human capital into core and noncore competencies."
Troy-based human resources management company Malace & Associates Inc. expects its diversification into nonautomotive industries to help double its revenue this year. Read the story »
Sarah Hubbard
Senior vice president of government relations at the Detroit Regional Chamber
LANSING - A statewide CEO group's proposal to cut the Michigan Business Tax by about $1.1 billion and replace the revenue by taxing services is getting mixed reviews about the timing. Read the story »
Warren Harris
President of Tata Technologies Inc.
The Novi-based engineering subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Tata Sons Ltd. has a buoyant outlook on business in Detroit these days. Read the story »
Charles Pugh
Newly elected Detroit City Council president
When number crunchers talk about cutting Detroit's costs, two issues come up: the city's anti-privatization ordinance and its policy of giving contract preference to Detroit-based businesses. Read the story »
SPEAKING OUT
Rose Steiner
State director of the Automotive Industry Action Group's Improving Performance In Practice project
"We first work to standardize the offices. We aren't pushing cookie-cutter medicine, but we want to improve the operations of the doctors' offices."
Rose Steiner, state director of the Automotive Industry Action Group's Improving Performance In Practice project, said the AIAG and co-sponsor Michigan Primary Care Consortium offers free lean management consulting services to physician practices. Read the story »
Terrence Berg
First assistant with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit
Voluntary Physicians Association, a Farmington Hills-based home health care company, has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle four whistle-blower lawsuits, according to Terrence Berg, first assistant with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit. Read the story »
Barbara McQuade
U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan
Barbara McQuade was sworn in to office Jan. 4 after the U.S. Senate in December approved her appointment as U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. She spoke last week with Crain's reporter Chad Halcom on her goals in the new position. Read the story »
Charles Rothstein
Senior managing director of Beringea L.L.C.
In Detroit and elsewhere, there's a rapidly growing network of labs, startup companies and university-led innovation focused on the cells, known for their ability to be grown and transformed into specialized cells and tissue. Read the story »
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