by Kimberly Viers | May 5, 2021 | Business
Not seasonally adjusted jobless rates edged down slightly in 10 of Michigan’s 17 major labor market areas during March, with monthly rate decreases ranging from 0.1 to 0.3 percentage points, according to data released from the Michigan Department of Technology,...
by Kimberly Viers | Apr 29, 2021 | Business
Updated April 29, 2021 Beyond the health implications of someone contracting COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed deep vulnerabilities in our nation’s public health infrastructure. Lives have been lost, inequities intensified, and years of progress eroded across our...
by Kimberly Viers | Mar 31, 2021 | Business
Pfizer Inc. broke ground, today, March 31, on one of the world’s most technically advanced sterile injectable pharmaceutical production facilities–known as Modular Aseptic Processing (MAP)–in Kalamazoo, Michigan. MAP is a multi-story, 420,000-square-foot production...
by Kimberly Viers | Mar 30, 2021 | Business
The Kalamazoo County Health & Community Services Department is reporting that health care partners such as hospitals, federally qualified health centers, pharmacies, and local public health departments have administered 128,649 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to...
by Kimberly Viers | Mar 15, 2021 | Business
Longtime local experts in the development of display products, Consort Display finalized the purchase of a building they have rented for about 15 years in the Edison neighborhood. This building is just one of many in the area that Consort works out of. Supporting this...
by Kimberly Viers | Mar 12, 2021 | Business
When the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in Michigan and emergency orders shut down the state in mid-March 2020, most people believed we’d be back to normal after a month or two. Now a full year in, and we are all continuing to face questions and learning to...