Activant Capital closed $129 million growth-stage fund
Greenwich, Connecticut-based Activant Capital has closed a $129 million late-stage venture fund. The firm was founded in 2013 by Steve Sarracino and has seen six liquidity events so far, a sizeable chunk of the 18 companies it’s invested in. Read …
A family’s reckoning: Fighting the opioid epidemic at home
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Imagine the pain that would come from losing both a brother and sister to a drug overdose.
Sadly, one local family is trying to make sense of it all, and now looking for allies in …
Huron Room closes, reboots as curry concept Fist of Curry
Southwest Detroit’s Huron Room closed on Friday and relaunched today at 3 p.m. as curry concept Fist Of Curry. In their new eatery, co-owners Jacques and Christine Driscoll and Les Molnar are offering tastes of the world’s finest curry styles …
Jamul’s Peter Silva to Stay on Fish and Game Commission
Jamul resident Peter Silva was reappointed Wednesday to the state Fish and Game Commission by Gov. Jerry Brown. Silva, 65, has served on the commission since 2016 and has extensive experience in local, state and federal environmental policy and civil …
‘Salt mist’ to blame for power outages
CREVE COEUR, Mo. – An odd combination of weather knocked out power for thousands of Ameren customers and caused several wooden power poles to catch fire.
“It’s unique in the number of these incidents in a single day,” Ameren executive …
News Briefs: Midtown Alliance meeting; BeltLine study group; Love Our City campaign
More than 1,000 business and civic leaders, residents and partners gathered at the Fox Theatre for the Midtown Alliance 2018 annual meeting on Feb. …
Blockchain engineers are in demand
Demand is off the charts for blockchain talent, and the capital is waiting to back it up. Over $3.7 billion has been raised through ICOs in the United States alone. Blockchain-related jobs are the second-fastest growing in today’s labor market; …
Cracking down on snowmobile speeding
MALTA, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The New York State Parks Department says there was a significant increase in snowmobile accidents during the 2016-2017 season.
Now, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Department is taking matters into their own hands.
The department says speed …
Detroit pharmacist suspended after being convicted of $6.2 million health care and wire fraud
Back in October 2017, Detroit pharmacist Imad Hussein Soueid was convicted of stealing nearly $6.2 million from health care agencies, a felony for which he received 42 months in prison.……
‘The Most Dangerous Man in America’ is a Pleasant Flashback to One of the Wildest Stories of the ’60s
I was born in 1967. The 1960s, for me and most people my age and younger, are almost purely an abstraction. I’ve familiarized myself with more than a few facets of the decade’s art and literature and politics, and a …