Insider Intelligence

Next month, the first-ever regional Great Lakes Environmental Remediation and Redevelopment Conference will be held in Lansing. Hosted by the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), the event will bring together over 500 environmental professionals from around the Great Lakes region. They will hear from experts and share information about remediation, emerging contaminants, […]

The House and Senate are scheduled to hold their typical Tuesday – Thursday session schedule. On Friday, September 20, the U.P. Energy Task Force is meeting in Hancock. The meeting will take place from 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. and includes public comment. For more information, please visit Michigan.gov/UPEnergyTaskForce.

The annual Labor Day Walk across the Mackinac Bridge is a tradition that began 62-years ago.  The walk started in late June 1958, during the Mackinac Bridge dedication ceremony, led by then Governor G. Mennen Williams.  That first walk, only 68 people participated, but over the years it has grown to as many as 85,000 […]

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. Chief Storytellers: Community Engagement or PR? – One major city in Colorado is testing a new role, however some are quite skeptical about the government job. […]

In his latest blog post, MLC President Tim Ward shared how you can keep the spirit of summer alive. Bicameral legislation was introduced cracking down on payroll fraud. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Michigan a $4 million grant to improve monitoring of residents’ toxic chemical exposure. Legislation that would require financial […]

Bicameral legislation has been introduced cracking down on payroll fraud and other related business practices. The proposal aims to strengthen whistleblower protections, toughen penalties against payroll fraud, and reimburse back-wages and benefits owed to employees. According to the press release, payroll fraud costs Michigan taxpayers $107 million a year in tax revenue when businesses misclassify […]

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Michigan a $4 million grant to improve monitoring of residents’ toxic chemical exposure.  Biomonitoring is the measurement of environmental chemicals in body tissues or fluids to determine the amount of chemical that actually enters the body. Data collected from biomonitoring helps identify at-risk population groups and […]

Legislation that would require financial disclosure by candidates for state-level offices and officeholders was reported by the House Elections and Ethics Committee this week. Under the proposal, candidates and officeholders would have to divulge sources of income, including stocks, investments and real estate assets owned, business associations above a certain threshold, and any relatives registered […]