Insider Intelligence

For the month of November, Michigan’s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 3.9%, unchanged from the prior month. Last month’s rate was eight-tenths of a percentage point below last year’s rate. In the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn market, November’s unemployment rate was 4.0%, which also remained unchanged from the prior month, and was four-tenths of a percentage point below last year’s rate.  […]

MLC offices will be closed from Monday, December 24, 2018 through January 1, 2019. 

While the holiday season spurs voices of “it’s the most wonderful time of the year,” many around the state capitol are lamenting, “it’s the most chaotic and unpredictable time of the year.”  The Michigan legislature is in the throes of its bi-annual lame-duck session. With Michigan’s Governor’s office flipping control to the Democrats and the […]

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. Stopping Data Breaches Will Require Help from Governments – Cyber security needs to be looked at from all avenues; both the public and private sectors. Environmentalists […]

It’s almost 2019, is your business ready? In his latest blog post, MLC lobbyist and procurement specialist Tony Des Chenes shared three areas to review to help set your business up for a successful new year. Legislation making changes to the state’s ballot petition process was passed by the House. The Senate Government Operations Committee […]

This week, legislation introduced by Representative Jim Lower (R-Cedar Lake) making changes to the state’s ballot petition process was passed by the House. The plan makes changes to the process of collecting signatures to get an item placed on the ballot. The legislation, as passed by the House: Requires not more than 15% of certified […]

This week, the Senate Government Operations Committee reported legislation allowing the legislature to intervene in court cases when they feel it’s necessary to protect a right or interest of the state. As passed by the House last week, the bill allows for intervention in any state court, during any stage of the proceeding, and applies […]

On Wednesday, Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation creating the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority (MSCA). The new authority will oversee construction and operation of a tunnel in bedrock beneath the waters of the Straits of Mackinac. The tunnel will house a replacement segment for the Line 5 petroleum pipelines that currently sit on the bottom of […]