Michigan Technology related politics
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder apologized to Flint residents for the failures of state agencies and called on the departments of Environmental Quality and Health and Human Services to reach out to experts on drinking water quality in light of additional preliminary findings of the Flint Water Advisory Task Force that put the primary responsibility
LANSING - Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant resigned Tuesday in the wake of interim findings from the task force Governor Rick Snyder commissioned to investigate why Flint's drinking water became contaminated with lead that pointed the finger squarely at the DEQ. Snyder, who is out of state this week on vacation with his
LANSING - The state's two largest utilities are fighting back against what they believe have been potential misrepresentations about news from state officials on Tuesday that the state can essentially maintain business-as-usual practices and still be in compliance for at least a decade with the federal Clean Power Plan on carbon emissions. "In less than
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder last week signed a pair of bills providing sales and use tax exemptions for certain data centers saying they "modernize the structure of Michigan's tax code" by give data centers similar treatment as manufacturing facilities, which better aligns the state with tax laws elsewhere. "Michigan has a long tradition of
LANSING - Michigan's population grew slightly from 2014 to 2015, helped by births and immigration, but the rate of growth is slow enough that the state could lose another congressional seat, figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed. In fact, Kurt Metzger, founder of Data Driven Detroit and mayor of Pleasant Ridge, said
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services had data that showed there were elevated lead levels in Flint's water, but delayed in releasing that data to others for review, Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards said in an article posted to his website documenting the city's water crisis. Department officials agreed and said
WASHINGTON DC - Last Friday, the Senate passed a combined omnibus appropriations and tax extenders package 65-33 (27 Rs and 38 Ds). Prior to that, the omnibus passed the House 316-113 and the extenders package by 318-109. The legislation now goes to President Obama to be signed into law. The legislation had several measures of
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Management and Budget is not properly restricting access to information technology equipment and is not ensuring that equipment is being properly stored, Auditor General Doug Ringler said in a report released Friday. The performance audit of physical security and environmental controls over information technology resources for the period October
LANSING - Auditors have found that most of the state's UNIX servers, operated by the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, had not been properly secured, an audit released Thursday said. The performance audit of statewide UNIX security controls, for the period October 1, 2012, through August 31, 2015, found that of 63 servers tested,
LANSING - In one of the most blatant political moves in years, the Michigan Republican legislative majorities powered to passage Wednesday a bill that would end the ability of voters to choose a party's entire slate of candidates with a single selection. With final passage in the House about 10:30 p.m., SB 13 will soon
