2018 – An Important election for small business
The General election is finally upon us and it is obvious that 2018 is shaping up to be a very competitive mid-term election here in Michigan.
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November 2, 2018
October 31, 2018
Election and voting rights – employee protections
What does Michigan's law say about worker voter protection?
October 23, 2018
Top 10 Senate Districts Most Likely to Flip
What is going on in Oakland County? The home of Brooks Patterson is either Democrats' ground zero for a dreamed takeback of the state Senate or their worst Election Day nightmare, one that validates the cultish-like …
October 23, 2018
Top 15 House Seats Most Likely To Flip
It's two weeks until Election Day and, as in past elections, the field seems to be spreading. Democrats are anxious to hit on a race that's going to help get them the nine seats needed …
October 16, 2018
Legal Pot Will Make Insurance Rates Go Up? Pro-Prop 1 Advocate Calls It ‘Silly’
Average auto insurance rates went up $200 per Colorado resident the year after the state legalized recreational marijuana and other states saw a 10 to 16 percent increase the year after they legalized pot, too, …
October 16, 2018
Schuette, Whitmer Take Off Gloves In Spirited First Debate
(GRAND RAPIDS) - Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer verbally battered each other in Friday's first general election gubernatorial debate, with familiar charges of the Democrat's alleged "extreme agenda" and the Republican's perceived tendency of only doing his …
October 8, 2018
Groups Band Together To Create Health Plan For Small Businesses
Two of Michigan's leading small business organizations announced the creation of a new health insurance program, known as an Association Health Plan (AHP), that they say could actually lower rates for small businesses.
October 8, 2018
Proposal 1 Roundup: Marijuana Ice Cream, Water On The Way?
Marijuana use among teenagers did not increase the year after the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational marijuana, according to fact sheets supplied by the health departments of both states.
October 2, 2018
Top 10 Senate Districts and Top 15 House Districts Most Likely To Flip
Sen. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake), the likely next Senate Majority Leader if Republicans maintain control, has heard the bleak forecasts about Democrats possibly riding a blue wave into majority this November. He's not buying it.
October 2, 2018
Schuette: ‘There’s No Discrimination Of Anybody’ In His Michigan
If elected, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Schuette said Michigan will have a policy in which there's no "discrimination of anybody whether it's on race, color, creed, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, you name it."
September 25, 2018
Legalized Pot Down 41% to 47% As National Anti-Group Puts In ‘6 Figures’
The self-proclaimed leading national organization against legalizing recreational marijuana is putting a "six-figure investment" in defeating Proposal 1 this fall as new polling from Target Insyght, commissioned by MIRS and Governmental Consulting Services Inc. (GCSI) show the …
September 25, 2018
Prop 2 Leading, Still Under 50%; 34% Undecided
Voters are supporting the redistricting reform ballot question, Proposal 2, at less than 50 percent when voters read the actual ballot language and asked to indicate how they'd vote, according to new polling commissioned by MIRS and …
September 19, 2018
SBAM’s Small BIZ PAC announces new endorsements for Nov. 6 general election
The Small BIZ PAC endorses candidates based on incumbent voting records, past or current small business ownership, recommendations from SBAM members, candidate interviews, candidate questionnaires and other factors.
September 18, 2018
State Submits Healthy MI Waiver With Proposed Work Requirements
The state has submitted its amended waiver to continue the Healthy Michigan program, with the expanded Medicaid program's fate now up to the federal government.
September 18, 2018
Snyder’s Fraud Authority Doesn’t End Debate On Fraud Authority
Gov. Rick SNYDER's creation of a fraud authority within the state's Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) is being applauded as a "first step" in squeezing "rampant fraud and abuse" out of the system.
September 11, 2018
Voting Access Amendment OK’d For Ballot, Marijuana Gets Its Language
(DELTA TWP) -- A proposed constitutional amendment that would make a number of voting access changes -- including ensuring straight-ticket voting in Michigan -- was unanimously approved for the November ballot by the Board of …
September 11, 2018
House, Senate Pass Paid Sick Leave, $12 Minimum Wage
The citizens' initiatives to phase in a $12 minimum wage and allow workers to take five days of paid sick leave a year passed the House Wednesday afternoon, hours after the Senate took the same …
August 28, 2018
Top 10 Senate Districts Most Likely To Flip
The Aug. 7 primary election results and corresponding internal polling has the Senate Democrats in the same type of position their House colleagues found themselves in last cycle and the cycle before that.
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