Insider Intelligence

Welcome to the second segment in a four part series were MLC answers your campaign finance and election law questions.  In last week’s kick off to the series, the focus was predominately on campaign finance questions.  This week, we’ll start to address some common election law questions. Q:  When will I know the final field […]

On Wednesday, the Flint Water Advisory Task Force issued their final report related to the Flint water crisis, including thirty six findings and forty four recommendations.  Since they were convened by Governor Rick Snyder in October 2015, the members of the task force have conducted interviews of those involved and reviewed pertinent documents.  The task […]

On Monday, Governor Rick Snyder released his seventy five point action plan for the City of Flint.  The proposal focuses on improving public health, repairing infrastructure, supporting educational services, and creating more and better jobs.  Several departments within state government are working together to implement the plan, including the Department of Education, the Department of […]

According to numbers released this week by the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget, Michigan’s seasonally adjusted February 2016 unemployment rate was 4.8%, a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point.  Total employment in the state increased by 36,000 last month, while the number of unemployed decreased by 4,000.  The February 2016 rate is 1.1% […]

On Thursday the Senate passed and the House concurred in a bill appropriating $47.8 million of the state’s tobacco settlement funds to the Detroit Public Schools (DPS).  Without the appropriation, DPS would only have few weeks of funding available, after that time teachers and staff would not have been paid.  While the House passed version […]

This week, the Senate passed a bipartisan package of six bills that would make major reforms to the Detroit Public Schools (DPS).  Under the Senate passed package, DPS would exist only to levy taxes and retire current debt.  The plan would create a new Detroit Community District (DCD) to assume operations of the current school […]

This week the Senate passed an amended version of a House bill requiring a student to be proficient in reading before moving from the third to the fourth grade.  The Senate added language requiring reporting on how many students were held back due to not being proficient readers and how many students weren’t proficient but […]

This week, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced that begin today, every Detroit high school graduate will be guaranteed two years of tuition-free college education.  Under state law, an authority can create a promise zone in order to use a portion of a city’s state education taxes to provide two-years of college tuition to residents.  The […]