Less than two years ago, Governor Snyder and lawmakers in Lansing took a bold step, standing up for Michigan workers, standing up for Michigan jobs.
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Less than two years ago, Governor Snyder and lawmakers in Lansing took a bold step, standing up for Michigan workers, standing up for Michigan jobs.
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It has been a year since the market in downtown Grand Rapids opened for business. Even in the middle of a holiday weekend, the Downtown Market was still very much alive.
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One year after Southwest Airlines put West Michigan on the carrier’s map, recent statistics show Ford Airport prices have declined.
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In one year, West Michigan Aviation Academy’s FIRST Robotics program grew from one, 16-member team to three teams totaling 40 members, illustrating the growing popularity of the program in the region and state.
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A Grand Rapids-area high school using flying to interest students in science and engineering. An Ann Arbor school with no textbooks and lots of hands-on learning. A high-poverty Detroit school with students dual-enrolled at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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There is a new effort to bring low-cost flights to Gerald R. Ford International Airport. Dick DeVos and other business leaders met Wednesday to announce the next generation of the Regional Air Alliance of West Michigan
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Doug and Dick DeVos, brothers from Grand Rapids, Mich., couldn’t have asked for a better Father’s Day gift than getting to sail with their sons, Dalton (22) and Ryan (age 23), respectively, on separate boats and against each other in the Melges 32 class.
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There were two new faces at April’s Athena Society dinner, the annual Vero Beach Museum of Art affair where $5,000 donors vote on art acquisitions for the museum’s permanent collection.
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Three West Michigan schools are graduating their first seniors this year, including the West Michigan Aviation Academy, founded in 2010.
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The CEOs and owners of West Michigan’s Big Three furniture makers and international Fortune 500 companies keep their primary residences in West Michigan, and most have in the past 10 years committed to investments in downtown offices and showrooms.
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The West Michigan Aviation Academy is preparing to graduate its first class, four years after Dick DeVos announced he was starting the charter public school.
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Grand Rapids Charter School Finds that the Idea Can Fly. Walk down the halls of the West Michigan Aviation Academy in Grand Rapids, and often, something unusual happens.
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