OPINION

So what motivates a man whose own company (U.S. Robotics) sold for $6 billion?
His name is on Munson Healthcare’s Cowell Family Cancer Center, he pledged $1 million to Northwestern Michigan College in August and then another $1 million to the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy in October. He helped incubate Traverse City’s startup incubator, and his investment group Boomerang Catapult is working to …

Casey Cowell & Greg Johnson Take Newton’s Road into the WTCM Studio with Ron Jolly
His name is on Munson Healthcare’s Cowell Family Cancer Center, he pledged $1 million to Northwestern Michigan College in August and then another $1 million to the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy in October. He helped incubate Traverse City’s startup incubator, and his investment group Boomerang Catapult is working to …

The New Localism
There is a new dynamic defining what it means to be “local.” In their book “The New Localism,” Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak explain how locally driven economic development …

Welcome to the Land of OZ!
Our federal tax law, adopted in December 2017, had an interesting and largely overlooked piece of policy tucked in. The measure began in February 2017 as a separate bipartisan effort in the Senate to incentivize increased private investment …

Grand Traverse Business News Record Eagle: A Capital Idea!
John Aiken moved his company, Web Canopy Studio, to Traverse City from Indiana 12 months ago. Seven high-paid, year-round workers entered our local economy. John sought to borrow $150,000 to expand his business …

TCBN: New Incubator Making an Impact
An opinion piece by Casey Cowell, from Grand Traverse Business special publication…