by Michael Layne, President, Marx Layne & Company Your organization has decided that public relations must be an important part of your marketing mix. As such, you’ve made the decision to retain the services of a public relations agency due to the cost efficiencies and expertise that comes with outsourcing the full range of [...]
Reviews mixed on whether billions in new project money can make a difference in coming months By John Gallagher States waiting on billions of dollars in project money to start flowing. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Now that President Joe Biden has signed into law the biggest investment in freight transportation in 65 years, the [...]
Restaurants will offer outdoor dining as food court and trucks are scrapped The Ann Arbor Art Fair is back. After a yearlong hiatus, the largest juried art fair in the nation returns to 30 city blocks of downtown Ann Arbor. This year’s AAAF, which could draw a half-million attendees, will run from Thursday, July 15, [...]
Tel K. Ganesan, founder and executive chairman of Farmington Hills-based Kyyba, has set up a “PPE swat team” that is searching the world for ways to bring personal protection equipment (PPE) and other medical supplies to Michigan. Suppliers in Australia, Brazil, Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Canada have already been contacted, and [...]
Detroit Approaches Its Coronavirus Peak The city’s role in the global auto industry and its poverty are factors; Central City Integrated Health shows the struggles downtown By Ben Foldy | Photographs by Emily Rose Bennett for The Wall Street Journal April 7, 2020 800 am ET DETROIT—Detroit, the center of one of the worst [...]
Supplier's first move: Protect employees ALEXA ST. JOHN In February, StradVision recommended that its employees start working from home. Editor’s note: This story is part of a package on leadership during the coronavirus crisis that will appear in the March 30 issue of Automotive News. Also, an earlier version of this story misidentified [...]
In these uncertain times, marketing and communication professionals want to know where social media traffic is surging and where it is lagging. We all know so much has changed in the last two weeks – including how and when we use social networks. New behaviors must be foundational to social media marketing plans during [...]
By Kent W. Clark Special to MediaNews Group; Mar 25, 2020 Pastor Kent Clark, CEO of Grace Centers of Hope. As Michigan residents are staying home and using “social distancing” to help limit the effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic in our state, it’s important that we don’t forget about another segment [...]
A new Pew Research Center survey found a COVID-19 information gulf between those who mainly receive their news through social media and those who mostly depend on traditional news sources. The survey found disparities in expectations for a vaccine (social media users less likely to be aware of the scientific community’s projection of vaccine readiness [...]
Monique Stanton President and CEO, CARE of Southeastern Michigan Monique Stanton has developed partnerships with Ascension, McLaren, Henry Ford and Beaumont health systems, drug courts, the Macomb County jail and community corrections to expand access to behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services. “Under her leadership, CARE is considered a leader in [...]
