Insider Intelligence

The Michigan Supreme Court released their list of oral arguments for January 2018. Included on that list is the case of former State Senator Virgil Smith, who as part of plea deal for domestic violence charges, resigned from office and agreed to not hold an elected office for five years. However, the courts ruled that […]

Last week, Lt. Governor Brian Calley signed into law a package of legislation aimed at combating the opioid epidemic in Michigan. The legislative package was unveiled in March by the Lt. Governor, Governor Snyder, and a group of bipartisan legislators as implementation of recommendations of the Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Task Force. “Lt. Governor […]

The House and Senate kick off 2018 with their first two session days of the year on Wednesday and Thursday. The biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference will be held on Thursday, January 11. That afternoon, we will have a full recap of the conference on the MLC blog.

On the evening of January 23, 2018, Governor Rick Snyder is scheduled to deliver his eighth and final State of the State Address. Since taking office in 2011, a lot has changed in Michigan. We have gone from a state on the edge of a fiscal cliff and enduring an economic crisis, to a state […]

The purpose of the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC) is to make the best educated estimates on how much revenue the state can anticipate, based on various economic factors.  Every year, the Research Seminar on Quantitative Economics at the University of Michigan presents on their projected economic data, in addition to another industry leader. Biannually, […]

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. Why You Shouldn’t Try to be a Morning Person – Usually articles tout the benefit of waking early, while there are benefits, this article outlines the […]

Sine Die has come and gone in Lansing. As our Michigan lawmakers closed the books on this legislative session, we tallied the numbers to see what was accomplished in the statehouse.

This week, a group turned in signatures to the Secretary of State’s office to get their citizens initiative placed on the 2018 ballot. The group is seeking to create a commission that would be charged with redrawing districts following a census, in place of the legislature who currently controls the process.  Using updated census data, […]