Insider Intelligence

In honor of Black History Month, I would like to share with you a piece of American history that I hold very dearly.  It begins with a road trip I had taken as a child with my family. At the age of nine, I attended my first “Homecoming” in Nicodemous, Kansas—the town where my father […]

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. This Robot Dog is Changing the Way Buildings Are Designed, Constructed, and Used – Architects have found a new and creative way to utilize technology to […]

In partnership with the MI Black Legislative Caucus, we’re kicking off a series celebrating Black History throughout the year. In the inaugural video, Caucus Chairman, Senator Bullock, shares about Carter G. Woodson. Please click here to watch the video.

This week the Senate passed two House bills appropriating approximately $4.25 billion of funding to aid the state’s response to the ongoing pandemic. While Governor Gretchen Whitmer called on the legislature to appropriate all federal funding the state has received, this package only utilizes a portion of the federal funds available. There are a few […]

Beginning Monday, Michigan residents over the age of 50, with medical conditions and disabilities and caregivers of children with special health care needs, will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. The change comes after President Joe Biden announced that ramped-up production will provide enough doses for 300 million Americans by the end of May. Thus […]

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced that all of the state’s more than 250 election audits of the November 2020 general election are complete, confirming the accuracy of the election. More than 1,300 Republican, Democratic, and nonpartisan clerks, as well as the Bureau of Elections, participated in the audits. In addition to the audits of […]

This week, a bipartisan plan was introduced that would place the legislature and executive office under open records laws. Specifically, it would create the Legislative Open Records Act, which is similar to FOIA laws, and would make certain documents and communications within legislative offices subject to FOIA requests. The governor and lieutenant governor would be […]

Michigan has been ranked first for fastest foreign direct investment (FDI) job growth over the past five years, according to Global Business Alliance’s most recent national trends analysis. Michigan was also ranked as third for the largest concentration of FDI manufacturing jobs, seventh for most overall FDI jobs, and tied for third for the largest […]