MACKINAC ISLAND - Insisting the state must find a way to finance at least $1.2 billion in transportation funding, Governor Rick Snyder said the 15.5 percent fuel tax Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville has called for would net the amount of revenue the state needs to help tackle the transportation issue. With the Legislature poised
MACKINAC ISLAND - Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels told a crowd at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference on Thursday that regardless of a person's political affiliation, providing first rate infrastructure is a responsibility of government. In 2006, Daniels said, Indiana got lucky and the time was right to lease one of its existing
MACKINAC ISLAND - Lt. Governor Brian Calley joined some House Democrats, business groups and local officials calling for the approval of Proposal 1, the proposal that would reimburse local communities the revenues lost form the personal property tax repeal. During a press conference at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference, Calley said the state
MACKINAC ISLAND - After interviewing both candidates, the Business Leaders for Michigan's Political Action Committee announced on Thursday its endorsement of Governor Rick Snyder for re-election in 2014. Cynthia Pasky, chair of the group's PAC, said during a news conference at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Island Policy conference that in 2009, the Business Leaders
LANSING - Most Michigan voters currently favor a ballot proposal to boost the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, including for tipped workers, and oppose the idea that a legislative initiative could make that initiative likely meaningless, a poll released Tuesday found. The poll by the Lansing-firm of EPIC/MRA was released several hours before lawmakers
LANSING - Now that the Republican-led Legislature and Governor Rick Snyder have swallowed a hard pill and enacted a minimum wage increase they preferred not to pursue, the big question Tuesday evening at the Capitol is whether doing so would assure Democratic support for a major increase in transportation funding. The early answer from the
LANSING - Michigan's minimum wage workers will see the first of several wage increases starting September 1 following the enactment Tuesday of a bipartisan deal to bring the state's minimum wage to $9.25 per hour by 2018 and, for the first time, tie the rate to inflation going forward. Not long after 8 p.m., Governor
MASON - The 2014 Michigan Energy Fair will be held on June 27-28 at the Ingham County Fairgrounds in Mason. The 2014 Fair will be the 14th statewide energy fair sponsored by GLREA. The Fair is the biggest and longest running energy event in Michigan and provides a unique opportunity to reach out to individuals
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville isn't just looking for a 20 percent increase to funding the film incentive program, he told reporters after session Wednesday, but rather enough money to not only provide incentive money to movies but help train under-employed individuals in Michigan, especially young people, who can't gain much long-term
DETROIT - Warner Norcross & Judd LLP is teaming up with Crain?s Detroit Business to offer a free webinar on cybersecurity threats in the business world, the legal landscape governing data privacy and cyber-risk insurance. The recent data breach at Target and the discovery of the Heartbleed virus focused attention on the growing problem of