WMUK's Morning Edition anchor, Gordon Evans is also an accomplished reporter and interviewer. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he came to WMUK from WAAM in Ann Arbor.
DECATUR, MI - Cargill is buying the grain storage and crop inputs assets of Northstar Grain LLC and associated properties in Decatur, according to a news release from the company. Cargill plans to invest about $3 million in upgrades to the facility -- completing the construction of a 500,000 bushel storage bin and increasing the capability to ship 75-car unit trains.
The DDA is projected to have a shortfall in three areas of its tax-increment financing budget: about $94,000 in property value adjustments, about $51,000 from changing the way it calculates TIF captures and $51,000 it anticipates in paying out to businesses that filed for a Michigan Tax Tribunal appeal.
The National Council on Teacher Quality released the ratings today assigning - from worst to best - ratings of one to four stars. Only 13 Michigan colleges received a rating in the report, because of limitations with getting enough data to evaluate them across all standards.
PORTAGE, MI --With little ceremony, the Portage Public Schools approved its 2013-14 budgets and set property tax rates for the next year. It was a case of no news was good news: The operating budget essentially maintained the status quo and the tax rates stayed the same.
