Flint’s lead water crisis part of infrastructure conference

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder addresses attendees of the Water Infrastructure Conference at the Riverfront Banquet Center Tuesday March 7, 2017, in Flint, Mich. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder addresses attendees of the Water Infrastructure Conference at the Riverfront Banquet Center Tuesday March 7, 2017, in Flint, Mich.

School budget: more for at-risk, less for cyber/private kids

In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 photo, state Rep. Tim Kelly, a Saginaw Township Republican, speaks at a House GOP news conference in the Capitol in Lansing, Mich. Kelly likes parts of Gov. Rick Snyder’s K-12 budget plan but has concerns about proposed cuts to a program that gives public schools funding for non-core classes offered to private and home-schooled students and reductions to cyber charter school funding.

Tesla Gets a Jump on Google, Uber, Ford in Race to Autonomous

There was, in hindsight, a clear element of risk to Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to install Autopilot hardware in every car coming off the production line since October 2014. It paid a price, with federal regulators probing the deadly crash of a Model S while in driver-assist mode and critics slamming Tesla for rolling the technology out too soon.