If you were reading Bridge Magazine yesterday, the online-only news and analysis site from The Center for Michigan, you may have been shocked to see, not analysis of Detroit’s bankruptcy or any of the issues pending before the state legislature, but an apology to Speaker Jase Bolger. In June, Center for Michigan’s Chairman Phil Power…
On Thursday afternoon, Gov. Snyder filed a court motion seeking Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection for Detroit. He did this just five minutes before Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina convened a hearing intending to block bankruptcy from going forward. He also did this after repeatedly denying that he considered bankruptcy an option for Detroit or any Michigan…
Lansing yawned when it was announced, months ago, that Gov. Rick Snyder was starting a few political funds – including his now-infamous NERD Fund, which isn’t required to disclose its donors. A November 2012 report compared the non-profit, chaired by Republican booster Charlie Secchia, to similar funds operated by Kwame Kilpatrick and Bob Ficano. But at least…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan Friday, June 28, 2013 Contact: Jessica Tramontana, jessica@progressmichigan.org, 517-974-6302 LANSING – Progress Michigan released the following statement on a federal judge issuing a preliminary injunction against the ban on benefits for domestic partners signed into law by Gov. Snyder in 2011: “Today’s ruling is just the first step…
Last Thursday, Republicans in the Michigan Senate wouldn’t even agree to let Medicaid expansion come up for a simple up or down vote, which would’ve ensured that nearly half a million uninsured Michiganders will now be able to obtain health insurance. It was an absurd process, forcing Lt. Gov. Brian Calley to return early from…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News from Progress Michigan Thursday, June 20, 2013 Contact: Joshua Pugh, joshua@progressmichigan.org, 517-575-7180 LANSING – Citizens’ watchdog group Progress Michigan released the following statement on the failure of the Michigan Senate to even vote on expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act before leaving for summer vacation until late August: “The failure…
Last night around 10:00, there was plenty of bipartisan happiness in the House chambers. After Medicaid expansion passed 76-31, some House Democrats even applauded the Republicans for finally dropping their obstructionism and compromising on a program that will deliver affordable healthcare to some 400,000 uninsured Michiganders while saving the state billions. In most states, that’s…
Last weekend corporate CEOs, lobbyists and politicians gathered on Mackinac Island for the annual “Mackinac Policy Conference,” sponsored every year by the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce. Generally the Detroit Chamber tries to douse the event with a centrist sheen – but this year they dropped all pretenses, inviting education corporatists like Jeb Bush and…
We’ve already covered how anti-choice extremists are dishonestly attempting to get around a veto from Gov. Snyder so they can ban regular health insurance plans from covering abortion. Now they’re taking it a step further, by illegally campaigning in support of their ballot initiative in taxpayer-funded buildings. We obtained a few pictures of Right to…
One of the nation’s largest homebuilders, PulteGroup Inc., yesterday announced that they’d be moving their headquarters and over 300 workers from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to Atlanta, Georgia. Reports indicated that Snyder and other state officials were “surprised” by the decision that came as they attended a weeklong party dedicated to celebrating the state’s supposed economic…