Policy Conference Attendees Challenged To Face State's Population Decline According to reporting in MIRS, after producing a report forecasting there will be 45,000 more deaths than births in Michigan from 2045 to 2050, Ani Turner of the Ann Arbor-based Altarum...

House Votes To Send Distracted Driving Bills To Governor's Desk Legislation that will prohibit drivers from being on their phone while driving is ready to head to the governor's desk. The House voted to concur with the Senate amendments to HB 4250 , HB 4251 and...

Business Leaders Not As Pessimistic As They Were Among Business Leaders for Michigan members, 44% believe the state's economy will get worse in the next six to 12 months and 57% believe inflation will go down. These are among the findings from a survey of BLM members...

Automatic Speed Enforcement Gets House Committee OK Motorists traveling through construction zones on state trunklines could be subjected to speed enforcement through automated systems under legislation that unanimously cleared a House committee Tuesday. Under HB...

Could the Legislature Be Ready to Revisit No Fault Auto Insurance? In the first three months of the new legislative session, the Democratic majority has raced through its initial six priorities laid out at the beginning of the term. As lawmakers prepare to dive back...

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...