Insider Intelligence

This week, Governor Rick Snyder launched a new campaign to change perceptions of Career Technical Education (CTE) and the opportunities they present.  The second phase of the state’s Going PRO campaign is designed to change the discussion about the professional trades, enhance career tech programs, and better connect the business and education communities.  In the […]

Sixty-three counties across the state will hold local elections on Tuesday, May 2.  For voter information, specific to your local community, please visit www.michigan.gov/vote. The House and Senate are scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday. On Wednesday, May 3, the House and Senate Natural Resources Committees are holding a joint hearing for a presentation […]

Representative Joe Bellino (R-Monroe) was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2016.  He represents the 17th House District, which includes portions of Monroe and Wayne Counties. Representative Bellino has been the owner and operator of Broadway Market for the past eighteen years.  Prior to that, he worked in the family beer […]

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. Earning Less Than Their Wives Makes U.S. Men More Partisan – As the income gap grows and more women become the breadwinner in the family, the […]

The newest edition of our “Capitol Spotlight” features Representative Ben Frederick (R-Owosso). Michigan’s monthly unemployment rate for the month of March declined to 5.1%. The remaining Fiscal Year 2017-2018 budgets were reported by the Appropriations Subcommittees. The House and Senate Fiscal Agencies released state revenue numbers for March 2017. Governor Rick Snyder was on hand […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March declined by two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.1%.  During the month, total employment increased by 17,000 and the number of unemployed declined by 11,000.  The March 2017 rate is two-tenths of a percentage […]

This week the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees reported the remaining budget bills to the full Appropriations Committees.  This concludes the first step in the budget process for the upcoming 2017-2018 Fiscal Year.  “The House and Senate Appropriations Committees seem to be on track to report their budgets with full chambers taking action on the […]

This week the House and Senate Fiscal Agencies released their monthly revenue reports for March 2017.  Collections for the month were $1,193.2 million, which is $161.6 million less than March 2016 and $165.8 million below the projected amount.  However, fiscal year-to-date collections are 2.2% higher than the prior fiscal year. General Fund revenue for the […]