Insider Intelligence

This week, the House Regulatory Reform Committee approved two bills regarding the use and safety of consumer fireworks in Michigan. Introduced by Representative Jim Lilly (R-Park Twp.), the legislation is in response to issues that have come up after the legislature voted in 2011 to legalize consumer fireworks. The first bill aims to enhance the […]

The House and Senate are scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday.

2018 will go down in history as the year voters elected more candidates that promised to be unapologetic advocates for social change and institutional reform than ever before in recent history. A huge number of those elected were women. In fact, for the first time in Michigan history all three of the top elected offices […]

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. Fourth National Climate Assessment – The Trump administration’s climate change report, as compiled by 13 federal agencies. Rail Service Could Link GR, Holland – Could an […]

The automotive industry makes cars. Restaurants make hamburgers and other foods. Apple makes computers and iPhones.  Stores like Meijer sell everything a household needs. A surgeon repairs the body. All of this is obvious.  What may not be as obvious is that politics is only about words, either spoken or written.  Be it campaigning or […]

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. Prejudice and Hatred Should Not Exist in American. My Father Understood That. – Ronald Reagan’s daughter shares her take on prejudice in the country through the […]

In his latest blog post, MLC lobbyist Rudy Hobbs shared three critical steps to take an idea and turn it into law. When the legislature heads back to Lansing it will have a full agenda of priorities to accomplish prior to the end of the 2017-2018 legislative term. Last week the House and Senate elected their […]

When the legislature heads back to Lansing it will have a full agenda of priorities to accomplish prior to the end of the 2017-2018 legislative term. Additionally, the Republicans will want to check certain items off their lists while there is still a Republican governor. “Known as lame duck, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas […]