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From the HERE City State DeskANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan men's basketball made its first high school signing of the Mike Boynton Jr. era official Thursday, adding four-star guard Lucai Anderson to its roster for the 2027-28 season. Anderson, a left-handed combo guard listed at 6-foot-4, is a consensus top-100…
From the HERE City State Desk
DETROIT, Mich. — Michigan has slid toward the bottom of national rankings in early reading and math and needs a long-term education plan that can survive changes in political power, the Detroit Regional Chamber said in a report released Thursday. In its seventh yearly look at education and talent, the…
From Merger Monday
UFORCE, a defense-technology company founded in Ukraine, raised $700 million in a Series A round that values it at $6 billion, one of the largest private financings yet for a maker of battlefield drones. Valor Equity Partners and Britain’s state-backed National Wealth Fund co-led the round. The U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund,…
From Merger Monday
For most of this year, the question in deal markets was whether there was enough money. This week the question was price, and the people with the money answered it. Take Hancock Whitney’s $3.2 billion all-stock purchase of Trustmark. The board agreed to an 18.6% premium. By the close, Hancock Whitney’s…
From Merger Monday
Kinder Morgan Inc. and Southern Co. are moving ahead with a roughly $7.6 billion natural gas pipeline that would run 470 miles from Middle Tennessee to central Georgia, one of the largest gas infrastructure projects proposed in the Southeast, as landowners along the route begin receiving notices. The Southeast Connector is…
From the HERE City State Desk
DETROIT, Mich. — A worldwide failure of Microsoft 365 knocked out email and other workplace tools across Michigan on Thursday, slowing communication at state agencies, Detroit city hall, major hospitals and the region's airport authority. The Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget warned that state government was having trouble…
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