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Aerospace Work Here Could Get Big Boost
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decision by the federal Government Accountability Office to re-open the bid process for a $40 billion contract to produce in-flight refueling tanker aircraft for the United States Air Force has revived hope among aerospace manufacturers in Michigan.
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Aviation Offers Health Care Some Lessons
Wareck
LANSING — The health care industry can learn a thing or two or three about patient safety from what might seem an unlikely source: the aviation industry.
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City Ready To Regulate Vendors
GRAND RAPIDS — A new city policy that would regulate sidewalk vendors in the downtown district will get a public airing at next week’s City Commission meeting.
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County Leases Landfill Rights
GRAND RAPIDS — Kent County commissioners agreed last week to lease the methane-gas rights at the county-owned South Kent Landfill to Granger Electric of Byron Center. Granger plans to convert the gas into electricity and then sell the power to Consumers Energy.
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Curbing Vendors Not So Cool
Grand Rapids makes much of its designs as one of the state’s Cool Cities, and there are undoubtedly concepts that have worked in the downtown — the oft-called "living room" to West Michigan.
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Design Support Growing
Design West Michigan, led by John Berry, a consultant with Greystone Global, is striving to nationally brand West Michigan as design centric.
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Designing An Economic Future
GRAND RAPIDS — From the toothbrush that scrubs teeth in the morning to the bed linens that cover up the body at night, design is infused into daily life much like air: It is everywhere and unavoidable.
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Firm Offers Insurance
For Freelance Operators
GRAND RAPIDS — Pam Patton learned a lesson the hard way when the condo in which she ran her business burned to the ground in a January fire. When she was finally able to retrieve what was left of her personal belongings, she discovered her laptop had been stolen, and her desktop computer was literally frozen. She wasn't able to gain access to her client files for two weeks. Her dilemma was complicated by the fact that she didn't have business insurance or a personal insurance agent to advocate on her behalf.
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Getting Things Done In Cuba
GRAND RAPIDS — Marc Bohland knows how to get things done in Cuba, one of the few remaining bastions of hard-line Soviet-style socialism left in the world today.
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Great Lakes Water Rules Take Shape
LANSING — Legislation that makes Michigan a member of the Great Lakes Compact may help protect the region's water from diversion to distant states, but it will also ensure that businesses in Michigan can know in advance just how much groundwater they can legally withdraw in any given location.
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Interphase Changes Name
GRAND RAPIDS — Interphase, the exclusive Haworth dealer in West and Northern Michigan, has changed its name to Interphase Interiors.
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Kellogg Acquires Chinese Biscuit Maker
BATTLE CREEK — Kellogg Co. announced today that one of its majority-owned subsidiaries has acquired substantially all the assets of Zhenghang Food Co. Ltd. a manufacturer of cookies and crackers in the north and north eastern regions of China. Kellogg did not disclose terms of the transaction.
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Kellogg Makes Progress
On Nutrition Initiatives
BATTLE CREEK — Kellogg Co. has made headway on the promise it made a year ago to adopt nutrition standards for the cereal, cookie, cracker, toaster pastry and snack products it markets to children under the age of 12.
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Local Practice Has Big
Impact on Cancer Care
Dr. Thomas Gribbin of Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Michigan, who is medical director at Saint Mary’s Health Care’s Lacks Cancer Center, is pictured with registered nurses Karole Murphy (left) and Ashley Mitchell from CHCWM.GRAND RAPIDS — Since its inception in the late 1970s, Cancer and Hematology Centers of Western Michigan has become Michigan’s largest medical oncology practice and an important influence in cancer care within a wide radius of Grand Rapids.
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Middle Schoolers 'Discover' Science
GRAND RAPIDS — Tyler Harris looked forward to the day his bearded dragon lizard would lay her eggs. Stephen Jakubowski was more intrigued with trying to calculate how fast his painted turtle could swim.
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Richardson: A Passion To Work
Attorney Kimberly Richardson has co-authored papers and made presentations on the legal implications of Proposal 2.GRAND RAPIDS — Attorney Kimberly Richardson knew at age 17 that if she was knowledgeable, prepared and clear about what she wanted to do in life, the world would be her oyster. Just two years out of law school, this young associate attorney at Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett is already shaking things up.
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Security Focuses On Innovations
Hines
GRAND RAPIDS — There are all kinds of security issues in the world of business: individual health and safety, physical property security, data security, legal liability …
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