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From the HERE City State DeskCHICAGO, Ill. — Michigan State knocked off the No. 2 team in the country on Tuesday night, Nov. 10. The fifth-ranked Spartans beat Duke 79-73 at the United Center in the Champions Classic, ending a three-game skid against the Blue Devils. Defense carried the night.…
SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Dominik Shine, captain of the Grand Rapids Griffins, picked up the American Hockey League weekly player award on Monday after a three-game stretch in which he scored five times and set two franchise marks. The league honor covers the week that…
Events
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Veterans Day Parade steps off at 6 p.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, in downtown Grand Rapids, hosted by Kent County's United Veterans Council. The procession starts at Division Avenue and Pearl Street, moves south on Division to Fulton Street, then turns north on…
From Merger Monday
On Tuesday the U.S. government paid 5% to borrow for 10 years. On the same day a five-year-old AI company asked public investors to value it at as much as $1.4 trillion. Both things can be true, and the gap between them says a lot about where capital is going. Start…
From Merger Monday
Akamai Technologies Inc. borrowed $2.2 billion at 1% by selling investors a piece of its stock’s upside, the latest technology company to tap the convertible-bond market to pay for computing capacity. The Cambridge, Mass., content-delivery and security company priced $1.1 billion of convertible senior notes due 2028 and $1.1 billion due…
From Merger Monday
The U.S. government will pay 5% a year for the next decade on its newest 10-year debt. The Treasury Department sold $42 billion of 10-year notes on Tuesday at a high yield of 5.02%, setting the coupon at 5%, in an auction that drew softer demand on the same day…
Politics
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids will hear from residents next month on whether to restore the name Grandville Avenue to the street now called César E. Chávez Avenue. A resolution approved Tuesday, Nov. 10, calls a public hearing for 7 p.m. on Dec. 1. The proposal would make Grandville…
From HERE Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ann Arbor Police Chief Andre C. Anderson will step down in February 2027, the city said, ending a tenure that began when he took over the department in February 2024. Before coming to Ann Arbor, he held senior posts in Tempe, Arizona, and Rochester, New York,…
From HERE Lansing
LANSING, Mich. — Lansing City Council gave final approval Monday, Nov. 9, to 15-year property tax exemptions for about 440 apartments run by one landlord, Simtob Management. Members voted 8-0 on each of four separate ordinances for the Flatz complexes. The four properties are Baltic Flatz on West Cavanaugh Road…
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