Insider Intelligence

This week, the Joint Committee of the Flint Water Emergency issued their final report.  Prior to issuing the report, the committee held six hearing and heard testimony from over sixty participants and stakeholders.  The final report details thirty-six policy proposals for consideration by the Legislature, fourteen of those are short-term goals.  Currently there is legislation […]

On Thursday, the Senate passed a package of bills repealing the Michigan Health Insurance Claims Assessment (HICA) tax.  HICA is a tax on health insurance claims paid by both individual policy holders and businesses who offer health care insurance to employees.  The tax was originally enacted to help pay the state’s portion of Medicaid, but […]

Last Friday, Governor Rick Snyder announced the initial appointments to the Building the 21st Century Economic Commission, which was created by Executive Order.  The twenty-three-member commission serves as an advisory body within the Executive Office.  Members are charged with identifying priorities over the next twenty years along with short and long-term action items.  The commission […]

This week, the 21st Century Michigan Education Commission announced a West Michigan event as part of their listening tour.  The public event will be held on Thursday, November 3, at the Gerald R. Ford Academic Center in Grand Rapids.  For more information or to RSVP, please click here. The commission was created by Executive Order […]

This week, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Carol Isaacs, announced she will retire effective December 31.  Ms. Isaacs has served in her current role under both Attorney General Bill Schuette and his predecessor, former Attorney General Mike Cox.  Prior to her tenure in the Attorney General’s office, she served as senior deputy director of policy and […]

The House and Senate are not scheduled to hold session. On Friday, October 28, state candidate’s pre-election campaign finance reports are due.

Through the general election on November 8, on every Tuesday and Thursday on the MLC Blog we will be highlighting races for which due to the voter base the seat could be won by either the Democratic or Republican candidate.  Candidate’s website and professional information is listed when available, in addition to a portion of […]

Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, a non-profit organization providing employment and education opportunities to Metro Detroiters, sought to expand its recycling program by opening jobs to the prison diversion and job training program. MLC’s work enabled Goodwill to build meaningful relationships with state legislators and staffers who are now open to discussions on the organization’s […]