Right to Work Repeal "Narrows" But Doesn't Close the Funnel For Incentives in Michigan Michigan has made "great strides in the last decade" in improving its attractiveness to companies looking to expand their operations, a professional site...

Gun Violence Survivors Pack Senate During Hearing on Firearms Package As reported by Gongwer, tears and anger dominated pleas from students and family members of gun violence survivors urging senators to enact changes to state gun laws in testimony Thursday on...

Karamo Defeats Trump-Endorsed Candidate For MRP Chair Following three rounds of voting, Kristina Karamo won the Republican Party chair position with 57.82% and 1,161 votes over Matt DePerno, who earned 41.88% and 841 votes despite having the endorsement of former...

Gov Orders 20% of State Contract Spending To Go To Disadvantaged Businesses Michigan's technology and budget department would need to dedicate at least 20% of state contract spending to Geographically Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (GDBEs), like those owned by...

Counties Seek A Larger Piece of State Revenue Pie Among the list of legislative priorities the Michigan Association of Counties (MAC) put forth in 2023 was the creation of a revenue sharing trust fund (RSTF) funded by a statutory earmark of the state sales tax. ...

Whitmer to Have Live Audience for State of the State for First Time in Three Years Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver her fifth State of the State address Jan. 25, her office announced last week. The speech — in which the governor sets out her agenda for the year — is...

Lame Duck Recap In the final hours of their two-year session, legislators passed dozens of bills and sent them to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for consideration. Other measures — proposals to change Michigan's presidential primary date, to scale back a potential spike in the...

Lame Duck:  Few Items of Interest, Few Days in Play As reported by MIRS, the House and Senate are looking at meeting as few as two or three days after the Thanksgiving break before calling it a legislative session based on the current plans brewing under the...

**SPECIAL POST ELECTION NOTE**: Dear Clients and Friends: As we all acclimate ourselves to the new realities in Lansing and attempt to make plans for our businesses, we can anticipate much more new regulatory policy in the New Year.  The Democratic...

32 Marijuana Proposals, 220 Tax Increase on November Ballot As reported by Gongwer, voters in thirty-one cities and townships will decide November 8 whether to allow marijuana businesses in their communities, and voters also will consider 220 proposed local property...

Tudor Dixon in Rochester Hills: 'Quiet Republicans' Emerging As Force In Race As reported by Gongwer, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon in a town hall event on Friday expounded on how she would implement key policies if elected but also said she...

Control of State House Looks to be a 'Toss-Up" After the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission did its work, the popular analysis in town was the Democrats made significant gains in the Senate map, but the Republicans made out well enough in the state...