$3B In More Spending, Not Cuts, Highlights Gov’s ’22 Budget
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 […]
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February 16, 2021
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February 9, 2021
State Projecting July-August Vaccination Start For ‘Everyone Else’ Category
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 […]
February 9, 2021
Are You More Likely To Get COVID-19 In A Plane Or A Restaurant?
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 […]
February 3, 2021
Michigan COVID Restrictions Tougher Than Most, But Not Abnormally So
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 […]
January 26, 2021
$246M Proposed For Biz Aid In $5.6B Supplemental
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 […]
January 26, 2021
Concerns Shift To Capacity Limits & Curfew As Gov Allows Indoor Dining
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 […]
January 19, 2021
Case Rates Down 70% Since Nov. Order; 2 Other ‘Key Metrics’ Down, Too
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 […]
January 19, 2021
Live Entertainment Biz OK’d For $3.5M In Aid
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 […]
January 12, 2021
Judge Keeps TRO Against UP Restaurant In Place; Orders Civil Contempt
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 […]
January 12, 2021
COVID Relief Funds To Be Held Until Whitmer Does More
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 […]
December 15, 2020
Health Workers, Nursing Home Residents Get Vaccine First
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 […]
November 24, 2020
Restaurant Trade Association, Hospitality Groups Sue Over DHHS Orders
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 […]
November 24, 2020
Whitmer Wants ‘Lame Lame Duck’
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 […]
November 17, 2020
In a Move that SBAM Opposes, Gov Moves To Revoke Line 5 Easement, Pipelines Would Close In May 2021
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 […]
November 17, 2020
MI Hits Triple Digit Deaths For 1st Time Since May, Another Case Record Set
Another single day record for COVID-19 cases was reported by the state Friday – 8,516. The 8,500+ cases are closer to the current two-day record of 9,010 cases set earlier […]
October 27, 2020
DHHS Takes Testimony On Flavored Vaping Ban Rule
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) took at least six hours of testimony Tuesday on permanent rules designed to ban the sale of flavored vaping products. Health advocates […]
October 27, 2020
Northern Michigan Real Estate Booming; Builders Struggling To Meet Demand
Michigan builders are prioritizing the construction of higher-value homes to gain more profit, a market-driven in part by the pandemic. But the state lacks housing for moderate-income buyers, such as […]
October 20, 2020
Deal Struck On Biz COVID-19 Liability
Expanded unemployment benefits and COVID-19 liability protections for businesses passed out of the House and Senate early Wednesday morning as part of a deal with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. House Speaker […]
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