Michigan Technology related politics
LANSING - A joint resolution extending Michigan's Constitution's prohibition against unreasonable government search and seizures to electronic data and communications unanimously cleared the House. The amendment, HJR C, passed 107-0, easily clearing the two-thirds majority requirement. If it passes the Senate, also with a two-thirds minimum vote, it will go on the ballot in 2018.
LANSING - The Michigan and U.S. economies should continue growing over the next two years, but that growth will be slower as the economy tries to deal with near full-employment situation and demographic changes as more Baby Boomers retire and more millennials go into the jobs market, economists said Wednesday at the May Revenue Estimating
WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) are reintroducing the bipartisan Vehicle Innovation Act to encourage investments in research and development of clean vehicle and advanced safety technologies to increase fuel efficiency and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. In the 114th Congress, Senators Peters, Alexander and
LANSING – Barracuda Networks is expanding in Ann Arbor with support from the Michigan Strategic Fund and Ann Arbor SPARK, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced Thursday. “Barracuda’s investment means Michigan residents will have good job opportunities that could well have gone to other states,” said Steve Arwood, CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation,
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved a plan to begin rolling back Obama-era net neutrality rules, reopening a battle over internet regulation that has raged for much of the last decade, the Wall Street Journal reported. The agency’s Republican commissioners pushed through the measure, 2-1, overriding opposition from the panel’s lone Democrat. The commission
LANSING - A report issued Wednesday by the AFL-CIO shows that chief executives for Michigan companies made 391 times the average pay for non-supervisory staff in 2016. The Executive PayWatch Report showed the average compensation for CEOs of Michigan S&P 500 companies was $14.71 million last year, compare $37,600 for production and other non-supervisory staff.
LANSING - The Michigan Senate saw little controversy in moving its final budget bills Thursday outside of Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. calling for the savings from the other budgets being used for road construction. But, in the end, the most Senate opposition came on the higher education budget (SB 138), which passed 22-15, and the
WASHINGTON DC - All nine Republicans in Michigan's U.S. House delegation voted for the federal health care bill that would repeal many of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act like the penalty tax for those without coverage, reduce taxes on high-income earners and dramatically alter Medicaid coverage for the poor with
LANSING - If career and technical education programs are going to gain the recognition that state leaders want, everyone involved needs to change how they talk about those programs, Governor Rick Snyder, Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Whiston and Talent and Economic Development Director Roger Curtis said in various presentations to the Governor's Education and
LANSING - On Wednesday, legislation that would allow Michigan developers to capture a portion of sales, use and income taxes to redevelop brownfield sites through projects deemed transformational to the community was approved by a House committee. SB 111, SB 112, SB 113, SB 114 and SB 115 cleared the House Tax Policy Committee on
