Contact: Bill Shreck, MDOT Director of Communications, 517-335-3084
Agency: Transportation
December 18, 2008- -When the Office of Great Workplace Development asked state employees to come up with eight innovative ideas for improving efficiency and customer service, teams from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) came up with 11. That fact was not lost Tuesday, Dec. [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Gov. Granholm recognizes innovations by MDOT employees
Posted in MDOT, Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Volunteers Needed for Stewardship Workdays in January in Southeastern Michigan
Posted in DNR, Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Contact: Laurel Malvitz-Draper 248-359-9057
Agency: Natural Resources
Dec. 22, 2008
The Department of Natural Resources today announced the schedule of volunteer stewardship workdays to be held throughout January in southeastern Michigan state parks.
Volunteers are needed to cut invasive shrubs in natural areas within state parks and recreation areas. This activity will help protect and restore the [...]
Village piers aim to handle anglers, boaters
Posted in Great Lakes Fishery Trust, Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PENTWATER — If all goes well, Pentwater fishers will have a new and accessible location from which to cast their lines next summer.
Also, visiting folks in sailboats still will have a place to tie up their dinghies.
The Pentwater Village Council recently approved a grant agreement for construction of a fishing pier at the end of [...]
Michigan near top in online learning
Posted in Michigan Virtual University, Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Alison Black | Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO — Michigan is putting fewer cars on the roads these days, but the state is driving more students to the information superhighway.
Michigan ranks second only to Florida when it comes to vision, policies and programs to support online learning, according to a study published in October [...]
Ferris State University Re-Names its College of Technology
Posted in Ferris State University, Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Written by Ferris State University
BIG RAPIDS – The College of Technology at Ferris State University has changed its name to College of Engineering Technology.
The name change reflects the college’s need to remain competitive and more accurately represents the extensive and applied aspects of the college’s programs and curricula, said Ken Kuk, Welding Engineering [...]
Harbor funding in place
Posted in DNR, Uncategorized on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Audrey LaFave – alafave@dailypress.net
GLADSTONE – The city of Gladstone recently received the last of three grants from the Michigan Natural Resources Trust fund (MNRT) to fund phase one of the city’s Harbor Point Improvement project.
Gladstone was awarded $100,000 from the MNRT this month for the project as well as a $150,000 grant from the [...]
Microsoft unveils career resource for students
Posted in Michigan Virtual University, Uncategorized on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CareerForward, a free online course, aims to help prepare America’s young people for 21st-century jobs
By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor
To help middle- and high-school students learn about the 21st-century jobs awaiting them and take charge of their own education, Microsoft’s U.S. Partners in Learning program has unveiled a free online course called CareerForward.
The project aims [...]
TRANSPORTATION TESTIFIES BEFORE HOUSE COMMITTEE FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS
Posted in MDOT, Uncategorized on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Transportation sat before the House Transportation Committee explaining on Wednesday why it requires additional revenue to continue operations.
MDOT has testified before the Senate Transportation Committee as well (See Gongwer Michigan Report, December 3, 2008) and officials repeated their argument that if Michigan can’t match their federal transportation dollars, those funds [...]
SENATE PANEL HEARS TESTIMONY ON WILDERNESS AREA
Posted in DNR, Uncategorized on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Pigeon River Area was the topic of discussion at Wednesday’s Senate Appropriations Natural Resources Subcommittee meeting with several House members saying the area should be open for broader use by horseback riders.
The area was put under restricted public use for horseback riding and camping by the Department of Natural Resources in early May (See [...]
Preservation projects get boost from state
Posted in DNR, Uncategorized on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By SHERI McWHIRTER
smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
ELBERTA — Big chunks of state money will help launch two land preservation projects in Benzie County.
About 58 acres in the Village of Elberta with critical dune habitat and 1,425 feet of Lake Michigan shoreline will be protected from development, while a 1.65-acre tract in Lake Ann will allow for a public park [...]
