Street Talk: Humor really is the best medicine

Wednesday’s Top Women Owned Businesses event at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park attracted a sell-out crowd and produced plenty of powerful networking. Speaker Julie...

Two local attorneys find work/life balance by opening firm

Attorneys Michelle Lupanoff and Beth Simonton-Kramer began hatching plans for their law firm while attending Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Grand Rapids. The two...

State bar works on strategic plan to address issues

The State Bar of Michigan is nearing the midway point of putting its latest strategic plan together, which has been a biannual effort for...

Inside Track: Goad finds satisfaction at the end of his career path

Michael Goad knows the peace of a healthy bank account and is acquainted with the struggles of too much month at the end of...

Regulations come to a head for small craft brewers

The Michigan craft beer industry could be poised to grow larger, thanks to a bill from State Sen. Howard Walker. Walker, R-Traverse City, introduced a...

Rockford and county reach termination agreement

Kent County Commissioner Roger Morgan was probably the most relieved elected official last Thursday when his fellow board members agreed to terminate a lease...

Removing barriers for gays could boost state’s economy

LANSING — Discrimination against gays and lesbians hurts Michigan’s economy, according to a new report by the Department of Civil Rights. Emily Dievendorf, director of...

Snyder appoints Viviano to court

Gov. Rick Snyder announced his appointment of Macomb County Circuit Court Judge David Viviano to the Michigan Supreme Court last week. “Judge Viviano has a...

Public Record

March 1 — MORTGAGES Selected mortgages filed with Kent County Register of Deeds   HAYES, Cassandra et al, Huntington National Bank, Condo-River House At Bridgewater Place, $378,000 TARGOSZ,...

Street Talk: Motor City: It’s time to pay the piper

Like it or not, West Michigan’s business fortunes are tied to Detroit. So, when one part of the body is injured, other parts feel...

Dart Frog Creative finds success with 3-D rendering

If you’ve flipped through a Crate & Barrel catalogue recently, chances are some portion of the room you were admiring wasn’t real. That’s because more...

Professional marketers stake their claim to own firm

Professional Marketing was a nationally known Grand Rapids-based business for almost 30 years, owned and operated by Diane Carnevale Jones and active across the...

Public Record

Feb. 22 — MORTGAGES Selected mortgages filed with Kent County Register of Deeds   OBERG, Gordon et al, One Reverse Mortgage, Vandertuin Plat No. 1, Lot 19,...

Inside Track: Commission chair had trouble finding a seat

It may sound strange because of the time lag, but, as fate would have it, it’s true: If Kent County Commissioner Jim Talen had...

Street Talk: Comic relief in these places and faces

Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, is the subject of a new comic book published by Bluewater Productions, a company that specializes in comic books,...

Small Coopersville company gets the nod from Honda

SelfLube, a small company in Coopersville that manufactures components for metal stamping dies and molds, was recently informed by Honda that it is now...

Inside Track: Courage, determination define new Komen executive director

Breast cancer has touched Jennifer Jurgens’ life more than once. The first time was when her mother died of the disease in 1984 when...

Muskegon firm does business ‘the old-fashioned way’

Forming Technologies in Muskegon’s Port City Industrial Park is an auto industry supplier that is “trying to do business the old-fashioned way,” according to...

Being ignored by auto industry is a blessing in disguise

HexArmor is a very healthy Grand Rapids manufacturing company that isn’t quite 10 years old. Its headcount has grown from nine in 2005 to...

Keeping it quiet on the road earns praise from dealer group

The Grand Rapids New Car Dealers Association has honored Cascade Engineering with its 2013 Celebration of Innovation: Automotive Supplier of the Year award, presented...