Insider Intelligence

This week, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Sally Williams as the next director of the Michigan Bureau of Elections.  She currently serves as the bureau’s Election Liaison Division director, assisting county and local clerks in their election administration duties.  Prior to that, Ms. Williams served in the executive offices of Secretaries Candice Miller and […]

To celebrate social media’s evolving impact on communications, Governor Rick Snyder has proclaimed Friday, June 30, 2017, as Michigan Social Media Day.  As the third state in the U.S. to recognize Social Media Day in 2012, Michigan government is embracing the use of social media to extend traditional channels of constituent engagement.  For more information, […]

This week two candidates moved forward with plans to run in the 2018 election.  On Monday, Dr. Jim Hines, filed signatures with the Secretary of State’s office to run in the Republican primary race for governor.  He is the first to officially file a petition to enter the race.  Dr. Hines served as an OBGYN […]

Representative Jeff Yaroch (R-Richmond) introduced legislation that would create a single-chamber legislature, instead of our current bicameral legislative body.  The proposal is a joint resolution and it will need two-thirds support from both the House and Senate before it would be placed before Michigan voters on the ballot. According to Representative Yaroch’s press release, his […]

In observance of Independence Day, the MLC offices will be closed July 3 – 4. By Senate resolution, July 2-8 is Aquatic Invasive Species Awareness Week.

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. The Mystery at the Heart of the 2017 Economy – What are the possible reasons inflation continues to be low? Estonia to Open the World’s First […]

The legislature wrapped-up the budget for the upcoming fiscal year, but not before several appropriations for local projects were added. The House and Senate approved a plan making reforms to the retirement system for public school employees. The ballot proposal seeking to enact a part-time legislature didn’t receive approval, or disapproval, from the State Board […]

This week, the House and Senate gave their approval for the two omnibus budgets providing appropriations for the upcoming 2017-2018 Fiscal Year.  Over the past few weeks there have been questions if the budgets would be completed prior to the end of June, but ultimately the legislature was successful in meeting their self-imposed deadline of […]