Following issuance of a ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives’ order in Michigan by Governor Whitmer in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, SBAM President Brian Calley issued the following statement:
Statement from SBAM President Brian Calley: “Everyone can agree that the most important thing we can do for our people is to slow the spread of COVID-19 and ‘flatten the […]
Proposal calls for claims to be paid to businesses forced to close by the state
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's program to pay for the two-year degree or industry-recognized certificate to those 25-years-old and older swiftly passed the House and Senate Thursday by wide margins.
Senate Republicans Wednesday passed SB 0716 and SCR 22, both objections to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's $3.5 billion bonding-for-roads plan.
A District of Columbia-based federal judge Wednesday invalidated Michigan's Medicaid work requirements as unlawful.
Senate Republicans expressed their distaste for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's bonding plan Wednesday by moving a pair of measures designed to provide some "guardrails" on borrowing money for roads.
A constitutional amendment proposal to require reduced tax rates for anyone making less than $175,000 – or $350,000 for those filing jointly – was filed with the state Bureau of Elections Friday.
The American Cancer Society is proposing the state license every shop that sells tobacco and that the state's tax on e-cigarettes mirror the tax on non-cigarette tobacco products, as part of suggested changes to the …
The latest return-on-investment study on the Pure Michigan ad campaign found a return of $8.79 for every dollar spent on the combined warm weather and fall campaigns of 2019, according to the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) …
A number of supporters of requiring marijuana licensees to obtain labor peace agreements (LPAs) got a chance to voice their perspective Wednesday during a public hearing about the state's proposed marijuana rules.
If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could be guaranteed one proposal from her Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget proposal that makes it into the Legislature's final product later this year, it would be her education pitches.
After a couple hectic weeks on the political scene, the political process is getting back to the regular grind of legislative action, with the budget taking center stage. But relations between the Executive and Legislative …
The GOP chair of the House Transportation Committee made it clear during a Feb. 4 hearing that he was not pleased that the Governor's $3.5 billion road fix bonding plan excluded much of northern Michigan.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Thursday abandoned a major revenue increase in her proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget request to the Legislature, but if the Republican-led House and Senate have ideas for one, she's all ears.
The business community response to Wednesday's State of the State address ranged from positive on Michigan Reconnect, to mixed on bonding and overall concern about overtime rules that haven't been released yet.
(WARREN) - President Donald Trump used his fifth visit to Michigan as president to herald the demise of the "nightmare known as NAFTA" and Wednesday's signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which he proclaimed would …
Progress Michigan announced Thursday a constitutional amendment initiative to ban lobbyist gift-giving to public officials, create a two-year "cooling-off period" for elected officials getting into lobbying and mandating more strenuous lobbyist reporting requirements..
