Insider Intelligence

With a focus on education and skills, health and families, and climate and water, State Budget Director Chris Kolb presented the Executive Budget recommendations for the upcoming fiscal year beginning on October 1, 2020 to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The total budget spending is $61.9 billion, an increase of 3.9% from the current […]

The temperature has fallen to 12 degrees and I’m writing this on the heels of a few acquaintances recently telling me that I’m nuts to still live in Michigan. “On the contrary,” I tell them.  Set aside the occasional deep winter chill and let’s remind each other of how livable the state is. It’s extremely […]

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. What’s Left of New York’s Dutch Past? – Parts of New York can trace their roots to their Dutch ancestry, such as how Wall Street got […]

Governor Gretchen Whitmer delivered the annual State of the State address. In his latest blog post, MLC lobbyist Tony Des Chenes shared why you should set resolutions for your company. The State Transportation Commission authorized the sale of $3.5 billion in road and bridge building bonds. Representative Yousef Rabhi and Senator Stephanie Chang introduced legislation […]

On Thursday, the State Transportation Commission authorized the sale of $3.5 billion in road and bridge building bonds. Called for by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in her State of the State address, the Commission unanimously voted to authorize the Department of Transportation to sell the bonds for 49 projects throughout the state. The vote also accelerates […]

Representative Yousef Rabhi (D-Ann Arbor) and Senator Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit) introduced legislation requiring all Michigan utilities’ energy generation to be renewable by 2050. Under the proposal, utilities would gradually increase renewable generation and storage in order to eliminate fossil fuel generation by the target date. The scheduled increase is as follows: 25% by 2025, 50% […]

The Senate passed a seven-bill package they believe will improve infrastructure policy in Michigan. Among the many changes, it requires the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to study the feasibility of toll roads on Michigan bridges or roadways. Other changes include: MDOT would be required to develop a highway construction inflation index by March 1, […]

Since last Friday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed into law multiple bills in a range of areas. The new laws include: Supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2019, including adjustments within the Department of Health and Human Services to programs such as Medicaid. Expanding the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone property tax exemption to $120,000. A requirement that […]