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SCOOP: Elissa Slotkin met with Debbie Stabenow for an hour tonight in the senior Michigan Senator's hideaway.
Slotkin has yet to make her campaign official, but she's laying the groundwork. "I’m definitely seriously thinking about it," she told me.
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And seven-ish hours later, the committee looks like it's coming back together. We should know the contents of SB 7 momentarily.
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The day is already off to a good start in the Michigan legislature, where a conference committee for SB 7 gaveled in before immediately going at ease.
They're supposed to be considering a book closing supplemental, to tie up ends from 2022, but it will likely involve much more.
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The Senate now passes a bill to allow public pensioners to deduct their eligible income and provide other breaks to private retirees.
After a line of speeches, the bill passed with three Republicans jumping over
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Court reverses decision, stops Michigan tipped wage from increasing next month
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Senate Democrats vote to move up Michigan presidential primary. All Republicans vote no. 20-18, which does not bode well for 2/3 majority required to give immediate effect
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Just in: a Michigan appeals court has REVERSED a lower court decision to, in effect, enact a higher minimum wage and establishment of required sick time.
A 3-judge panel ruled the legislature's 2018 "adopt and amend" maneuver to water down those initiative petitions is allowable
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If Michigan Democrats wants to change its presidential primary date, it has to do that by Feb. 1 to meet the DNC’s deadline.
If this doesn’t pass both chambers today, then the legislature only has ONE session day (Tuesday, Jan. 31) left to do that.
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Senate is now moving on to General Orders.
SB 3 (Earned Income Tax Credit)
SB 13 (movement of presidential primary date from March to February)
have been moved to Third Reading.
Final votes to come at some point.
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Being an adult is just reminding yourself that for every stressful day of work you go through, you're just one day closer to your next concert.
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Starting next week, single-copy newspapers won't be available on newsstands anymore on Mondays and Wednesdays for a few of MLive's papers.
- The Grand Rapids Press
- Jackson Citizen Patriot
- Muskegon Chronicle
- Kalamazoo Gazette
The details:
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House and Senate Democrats punted the bill to the CC on Tuesday after an all-day session in the lower chamber.
There's word the altered version of the bill is intended to include funding toward courting the citing of a paper mill in the UP.
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The day is already off to a good start in the Michigan legislature, where a conference committee for SB 7 gaveled in before immediately going at ease.
They're supposed to be considering a book closing supplemental, to tie up ends from 2022, but it will likely involve much more.
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The MIGOP chair race is huge for Republicans' future heading into 2024.
I spent last Saturday talking to candidates in Jackson. Many have ambitious plans, but the frontrunners are hard-right candidates who failed in 2022.
Can anyone unify the party?
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Who ever said words can't be data?
A language analysis of Gov. Whitmer's State of the State address from last night.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer talked about lowering taxes at yesterday's State of the State.
Here's how Michigan's legislative Democrats and Republicans currently plan to do that.
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With her party in control of the legislature and billions of dollars in the bank, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer laid out a plan to cut taxes while expanding social programs in the first State of the State address of her second term.
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Democrats' push to expand the Michigan civil rights law by adding LGBTQ protections, which Whitmer will highlight tonight, has a new and notable backer: The Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which has sway with conservatives.
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More non-State of the State news: Senate conference committee for SB 7, the book-closing supplemental, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Thursday before session. #mileg
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Greetings from Michigan’s Capitol, where the legislature is convening to hear the fifth State of the State address from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Background: mlive.com/politics/2023/
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Retirees and low- to moderate-income households are the focus of tax cut plans currently touted by Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan legislature.
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MI Senate session was quick today as everyone eyes State of the State tonight. The SB 7 funding bill, which covered last night, will go to conference committee. mlive.com/politics/2023/
Bill to move presidential primary to Feb. 27 was on calendar but not taken up.
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Rep. Joey Andrews and his wife welcomed their first child, a daughter, early Tuesday morning.
By Tuesday afternoon, he was driving across Michigan to be the final votes Democrats needed on a year-end supplemental spending bill.
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Wildly, Andrews (D-Saint Joseph) actually MADE the roughly two hour drive from the hospital to Lansing tonight to vote through SB 7.
Upon him stepping on the House floor, looking admittedly pretty rumpled and clad in an AFL-CIO hoodie and jeans, House Dems erupted in applause.
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The Michigan House has been stalled since 4 p.m. due to House Democrats being unable to have enough votes to break a tie on a piece of legislation related to supplemental spending.
The Dem lawmaker missing, Rep. Joey Andrews, was absent due to the birth of his first kid.
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Michigan’s Senate Housing and Human Services committee moves on an S-5 version of Senate Dems’ EITC boost, making the changes retroactive and scrapping the tiered increase from 6 to 30%.
Now it’d be an immediate 30% retroactive jump.
Bill is now headed to the Senate floor.
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Learning that Panic! At the Disco has finally broken up after being Brendon! At the Disco for the last decade..... I need to know exactly where Ryan Ross is and what he's thinking.
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At a cafe in Lansing this morning with appropriations chairs and Gov. Whitmer as they engage with a roundtable of residents on budgetary priorities.
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In the first analysis of its kind in Michigan, I coded nearly every 2022 legislative donation to the donor’s district to examine if legislators fundraised significantly from people they ran to represent.
For all but two legislators, the answer is no.
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Rep. John Moolenaar is placed on the new U.S. House select committee on China.
Interesting given Gotion, a Chinese-HQ'd EV battery manufacturer, is planning a massive facility in Big Rapids, his new district. MEDC deal has been heavily criticized by Rs. mlive.com/news/grand-rap twitter.com/emrwilkins/sta
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Tax season officially kicked off on Monday, Jan. 23. Here's what you need to know about filing this year.
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You’ll never see these rude, raunchy and sometimes topical Michigan license plates that drivers unsuccessfully requested.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer plans to call for policies to reduce gun violence and increase funding for law enforcement, according to excerpts of the annual address.
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The first week of committee hearings begins Tuesday in the Michigan legislature. Here’s what you should know ahead of time.
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Spoke with and for this piece ahead of the House and Senate education committees meeting next week.
One of their top priorities this year? Dropping the retention component from Michigan’s “Read By Grade 3” law.
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MIGOP chair candidate speeches are underway here at Jackson GOP event. Lots of talk about increasing donations, as many big-money donors sat out in 2022. Lena Epstein called being chair an emergency manager assignment
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2 things: My morning math is bad — it’s 10 candidates, although not everyone has shown up yet to this 10am event. Also, it’s Billy PUTMAN, not Putnam twitter.com/Ben_Orner/stat…
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OK people, now we're getting somewhere...
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Alright Lansing Political Twitter (TM), how are we filling this bad boy out ahead of Wednesday's State of the State address?
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Alright Lansing Political Twitter (TM), how are we filling this bad boy out ahead of Wednesday's State of the State address?
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Just in from Michigan Supreme Court: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is dropping the case fighting Michigan's 1931 abortion ban because, well, Prop 3. It placed the right to an abortion in the state constitution.
The legislature is still working to strike that law from Michigan's books.
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Michigan Democrats and Republicans won't say if changing a 2015 trigger law, resulting in an automatic income tax cut for Michigan residents, is currently being discussed as the possibility looms.
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