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Regional BusinessA California based nonprofit is planning to invest up to $1 million to bring a high-tech learning lab to the Coleman A. Young International Airport, where Detroit students and the public can get hands-on training in the hot field of drone technology.

Oregon, Louisiana and North Carolina have the lowest tax burdens of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, while Alaska, North Dakota and West Virginia have the highest, so says Anderson Economic Group’s 2015 Business Tax Burden Rankings. Michigan improved from 28th in the survey a year ago, to 23rd today.

As Michigan develops its State Energy Policy, and waits for the Federal Clean Power Plan Carbon Standards to be finalized later this summer, a new report from the national nonpartisan business group, Environmental Entrepreneurs, shows that the state ranked No. 5 in the nation in clean energy and clean transportation job announcements in the first three months of 2015.

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