After fighting for months to get the green light from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration to reopen fitness centers around the state, operators got the OK last September 9 at 25% capacity. Now […]
The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) clawed back approximately $84 million in benefit payments due to suspected fraud during the unprecedented demand for benefits this past 11 months, a Senate […]
Restaurants would be allowed to open to 50% capacity instead of the state-ordered 25% under a reopening plan proposed by the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association (MRLA). The MRLA plan […]
The Attorney General’s office asked the Michigan Supreme Court (MSC) to revisit its “erroneous interpretation” of an exemption in the Michigan Consumer Protection Act (MCPA) that allows for a “free […]
Who would have thought we’d be here? Eleven months deep into the first pandemic in 100 years and state government is wrestling with how to spend $3.3 billion ($2.4 billion […]
If you’re not a senior, a frontline essential worker or someone with a health issue, you may not get a COVID vaccine until July or August at the earliest, according […]
An epidemiologist and 15-year Harvard School of Public Health faculty member questioned the wisdom of shutting down in-person dining as a way to control COVID-19 spread if the main reason […]
Michigan is ranked 42nd among the states according to how much it’s reopened from COVID-19 restrictions, according to one site tracking pandemic-related restrictions on a state-by-state basis. However, Michigan isn’t necessarily […]
The more than 1.2 million Bridge Card beneficiaries in Michigan will see a six-month, 15% bump in their benefits by the end of January, the governor’s office announced Thursday. A family of […]
The restaurant industry and their allies were relieved to see confirmation of the Feb. 1 reopening of indoor dining, but many weren’t happy with the restrictions that came along with […]
The three “key metrics” the state is using to guide COVID-19 reopening decisions have improved since the epidemic order issued in November, with the weekly average of cases per million […]
The Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) Board Thursday signed off on $58.5 million in aid for concert venues, entertainment venues and other businesses dealing with COVID-19 restrictions with the money approved […]
A temporary restraining order (TRO) stopping a Calumet restaurant from operating without a food license will remain in place, an Ingham County judge said Friday. Circuit Judge Wanda Stokes held Café Rosetta in […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must take more steps to reopen Michigan’s economy before the Legislature “can have meaningful conversations” about allocating federal COVID-19 relief funds, House Appropriations Chair Thomas Albert (R-Lowell) said in a statement […]
Health care workers — both paid and unpaid — who have direct or indirect exposure to patients who work in-person, as well as residents of long-term care facilities, will be […]
A restaurant trade association is leading a federal lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for its Sunday order shuttering indoor dining as part of a coordinated […]
If the Legislature isn’t going to put some type of mask mandate into state law, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday she believes the rest of the legislative year should be a “lame lame duck.” Whitmer told […]
SBAM supports the 2018 tunnel agreement as the best solution to ensure uninterrupted and affordable energy supply under the Straits of Mackinac; we also oppose undoing properly enacted legislation through […]
