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December 13, 2022

Miles-Driven Tax Expected To Take Center Stage

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter Look for the new legislature to consider a new method to raise revenue to fix the roads based on miles driven. […]

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December 6, 2022

56 Freshmen Joining The House, Third Most Since Term Limits

Article by MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter The Michigan House is welcoming 56 first-term members in the 2023-24 session, the most since 2011 and the third most since […]

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December 6, 2022

Percentage Of Students Prepared For College At 5 Year Low

Article by MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter A higher percentage of Michigan high school students are not academically ready to attend college at a time when university enrollment […]

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November 29, 2022

Bolden To Take Over On Supreme Court For McCormack

Article by MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter Rep. Kyra Bolden (D-Southfield) was announced Tuesday afternoon as the next justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, taking over for Justice […]

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November 29, 2022

‘Adopt And Amend’ Kick-In Projected To Equal Pandemic For Restaurant Closures

Article by MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter Michigan could see “another pandemic-level of restaurant closures” if the Court of Claims “Adopt-and-Amend” ruling comes to fruition and eliminates Michigan’s […]

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November 8, 2022

Turnout Projected At 4 Million, Detroit Turnout Range 28%-33%

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter Although Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is anticipating Michigan to have one of its highest turnouts for a midterm election, participation in […]

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October 18, 2022

Future Funding For $250M Scholarship Program Is Not Guaranteed

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter (SOUTHFIELD) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave life to the new Michigan Achievement Scholarship program Tuesday, but there’s no guarantee the funding will be […]

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October 18, 2022

Post-Debate Analysis: Dixon Better Than Expected; How Did Whitmer Respond?

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter Republican Tudor Dixon charged into Thursday night’s first gubernatorial debate with a little more juice than maybe most viewers expected. That was the […]

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October 11, 2022

Gov Directs Michigan Departments To Look Into The Business Of Making Insulin

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive Monday asking the state departments to come up with ways to lower the cost of insulin, […]

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October 11, 2022

MI Elected Governor Of Same Party As Sitting President 4 Times In Last 22 Mid-Terms

Article courtesy MIRS News, for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog e-newsletter In the last 22 Michigan elections for governor, the winning candidate was the same party as the sitting president only four […]

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October 4, 2022

Middle Class Scholarship Will Give University-Bound Students $5,500 A Year

Article courtesy of MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter Public university-bound recipients of the new Michigan Achievement Scholarship program will be able to receive up to $5,500 a year […]

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October 4, 2022

$20M Set Aside To Settle Unemployment False Fraud Suit

Article courtesy of MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog newsletter A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging the state falsely accused unemployment benefit recipients of fraud. […]

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September 26, 2022

Gov EO Creates New Data, Analytics Division In DTMB

Article courtesy MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Wednesday creating the Michigan Center for Data and Analytics in the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget. […]

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September 26, 2022

Governor Wants $500M More For SOAR Fund; House Wants Tax Cut; Senate Wants Infrastructure Money

Article courtesy MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog The Whitmer administration wants the Legislature to put another $500 million into the new Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) Fund to […]

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September 20, 2022

Bars Are Back, Workers Are Not

Courtesy MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog Conditions in the bar business are certainly much better off than they were in the middle of COVID.   In fact, the Michigan […]

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September 20, 2022

Child Care Centers In Their Infancy Getting Push From LARA

Courtesy MIRS News for SBAM’s Lansing Watchdog The state licensing process for budding affordable child care centers would be streamlined under a program announced earlier this week. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Our […]

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September 13, 2022

Term Limits Proposal Cleared For Ballot As Prop 1

The Michigan Supreme Court is allowing a constitutional amendment to change the term limits law from three two-year House terms and two four-year Senate terms to a combined 12 years in the […]

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September 13, 2022

Solar Projects Would Pay $7K A Year Instead Of Taxes Under Treasury-Backed Bills

After similar legislation was struck down in 2020, non-residential solar power developers could have another chance to sidestep taxes by someday entering a 20-year direct payment agreement with local governments.  […]

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