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A long-stalled movement to make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people may gain traction - not in the Legislature but with a Michigan board that is being asked to declare that such discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations is already unlawful under state law. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission will meet Monday to consider the request after two months of receiving public feedback, including roughly 300 comments.
In this Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017 photo, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed high-fives supporter Sonique Watson in Detroit. Perhaps no state has embraced the political outsider as much as Michigan.
Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. a A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.
A decade of recession, a plunging number of manufacturing jobs, and people leaving Michigan to find work have left the state's workforce grayer. Peter Ruark is with the Michigan League for Public Policy.
Although Michigan Sheriff Michael J. Bouchard runs one of the nation's largest sheriff's offices - with about 1,400 officers stationed a few miles northwest of Detroit - he spends a lot of time in Washington. During the waning days of the Obama Administration, Bouchard, who is also chair of government affairs of the Major County Sheriff's Association of America, engaged in a succession of heated debates with senior White House and Justice Department officials who wanted to know: Why do local cops need Pentagon-issued bayonets? "They started with a premise in the meeting: 'Can you explain why you would need all of this military equipment?'" Bouchard recalled in an interview.
Faced with an unreceptive Legislature, advocates for marijuana legalization, guaranteed paid sick leave and a host of other bills are banking that you will embrace them at the ballot box - if the proposals make it there. Organizers so far have launched seven initiatives for the November 2018 statewide election and need to collect hundreds of thousands of valid signatures to qualify.
Can the GOP's Shotgun Marriage Be Saved? By Patrick J. Buchanan Tuesday - August 29, 2017 Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, 2016, Republicans awoke to learn they had won the lottery. Donald Trump had won the presidency by carrying Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Even as the chairman of Foxconn Technology Group watched President Donald Trump this week claim credit for the contract manufacturer's investment, folks back in Michigan are training their eyes on another prize. That'd be a separate Foxconn investment in southeast Michigan, one that would produce smaller liquid crystal displays for automotive and electronic device applications.
Former US Congressman Pete Hoekstra speaks at the Ottawa County Republican Party headquarters in Holland Twp., MI in this file photo. WASHINGTON Pete Hoekstra is apparently going to be rewarded for his support of Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Campaign after all.
U.S. Sens. Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow are asking for a meeting with President Donald Trump to talk about jobs and ways to end outsourcing. Peters, D-Bloomfield Twp., and Stabenow, D-Lansing, wrote a joint letter to Trump in response to his "Made in America" theme week, encouraging him to work with Congress and asking him to meet with them to come up with a plan to promote U.S. jobs and manufacturing.
The season arguably peaked when federal paratroopers were called in to put an end to the five days of looting and arson in Detroit, which started in the middle of the night precisely 50 years ago this coming Sunday, after police raided a popular but unlicensed African-American watering hole on Detroit's 12th Street on July 23, 1967. "At week's end, there were 41 known dead, 347 injured, 3,800 arrested.
Michigan should require municipalities to prefund new hires' retiree medical costs and help local governments facing substantially underfunded pension and retiree health obligations, a task force created by Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday after failing to agree on potential benefit cuts and other issues. The group of 20 voting members was formed in February to study unfunded liabilities at the local level - $10.1 billion for retiree health care in roughly 340 municipalities and $7.5 billion for pensions in nearly 600 communities.
U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and State Rep. Darrin Camilleri were speakers at the launch of the Universal Family Care Downriver campaign July 3. Jessica Strachan - For The News-Herald Alexis Wyatt of Brownstown Township brought her 7-month-old son to the event promoting Universal Family Care to share her story of caring for Alexander, who has to be fed on a feeding tube each out. He is undiagnosed.
You could make a strong case that there isn't anything drearier these days than politics in America - that is, unless you're talking about politics in Michigan. Know-nothing, right-wing zombies control everything on both the state and federal level.
Every 10 years, states are tasked with redrawing the lines of state House, state Senate and Congressional districts to reflect changes in population based on U.S. Census data. In Michigan, that process is conducted by the state Legislature, which has been majority Republican in recent redistricting years.
Gov. Rick Snyder urged the Republican-led Michigan House on Friday to pass economic development tax incentives when it meets in July, saying there is still time to lure a Taiwanese electronics giant to the state despite the cancellation of a vote on the legislation. Foxconn, which plans to locate a display panel factory in the U.S. that could cost up to $7 billion, will announce investment plans by early August for at least three states, Chairman Terry Gou said Thursday.
Authorities say a Canadian man from Tunisia crossed legally into the U.S. days before stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport. Authorities say a Canadian man from Tunisia crossed legally into the U.S. days before stabbing a police officer in the neck at a Michigan airport.
Retired NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, Civil Rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, entrepreneur William Pickard, Ph.D. and Congressman John Conyers lauded at commencement ATHENS, Ga.
Congressman Bill Huizenga spoke with FOX 17 News live early Thursday evening after casting his vote in support of the American Health Care Act. The bill is being branded as the repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act that Republicans have been promising throughout the 2016 campaign season and beyond.