Insider Intelligence

In January, legislation was introduced exempting certain records related to procurement from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  In our first blog post on the bill, MLC’s procurement expert, Tony Des Chenes, provided an overview of the legislation as introduced and why it’s important to our clients during the procurement process.  In addition to certain […]

In January, Governor Rick Snyder kicked off his final two years in office and he’s shown no signs of slowing down.  Neither have Lt. Governor Brian Calley and the various departments who continue to move full steam ahead to complete several objectives.  Keeping Michigan’s global presence, the Governor lead an investment mission to Israel in […]

The budget process officially began in January with the biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference.  The following the month, Governor Rick Snyder presented his executive budget recommendations before a joint House and Senate Appropriations Committee.  Since that time, the House and Senate have been busy introducing their budgets and Appropriations Subcommittees have been holding hearings to […]

Representative Sylvia Santana (D-Detroit) was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives in November 2016.  She represents the 9th House District in Wayne County and includes portions of Dearborn and Detroit. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, Representative Santana worked for fifteen years in the financial services industry. The cornerstone of […]

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 Say-Do Ration – Finding the right ratio of actively listening and letting your actions speak. How to Think About Vladimir Putin – Instead of the […]

Our weekly Capitol Spotlight feature highlighted Representative Tim Sneller from Genesee County. How MLC changed the conversation to help our client fight back a tax increase threat. In the weekly Five Things We’re Reading feature, we shared articles on the limits of café urbanism, will ride sharing ever be as prevalent in small and mid-sized […]

On Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Robert Young announced his retirement from the bench.  His retirement will be effective April 30 or earlier as he winds up his affairs on the state’s highest Court.  Justice Young will be returning to his former law firm of Dickinson Wright. Justice Young served three years on the Michigan Court […]

This week, House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees reported budgets within their purvey to the full Appropriations Committees.  In their current forms, the House and Senate budgets spend significantly less than Governor Snyder’s executive recommendations.  Most of the budgets were completed by the subcommittees this week, except for the Senate’s budgets for Corrections, General Government, Health […]