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June 12, 2012

Municipal Loan Bills pass House

Last Thursday the House passed House Bills 5566-5570, a package that amends the Emergency Municipal Loan Act to include school districts and amend the criteria for qualifying. The current statute does not allow school districts to qualify for emergency loans.…
June 12, 2012

Webinar to discuss housing and transportation tool

On Thursday, June 14 from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, the National League of Cities will be hosting a webinar to discuss a Housing and Transportation Affordability Index developed by the Center for Neighborhood Technology. The index calculates housing affordability…
June 12, 2012

2013 Federal budget moving along

A House subcommittee has passed its first draft of the FY2013 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development bill. While the bill provides $2 billion less in funding than the Senate passed version, it appears that CDBG is being given priority as…
June 6, 2012

House committee passes synthetic drug bill

Yesterday the House Judiciary Committee reported SB 1082, a bill that would more specific define what makes up synthetic drugs and bans those materials. Last session the legislature passed bills to ban synthetic drugs, but the manufacturers of these drugs…
June 4, 2012

Transportation negotiations begin to sour

Recent reports from the conference committee tackling a new transportation authorization is that negotiations my have hit a stand still.  Not only does the House Republican legislative agenda for the remainder of spring and summer not even mention transportation, but several House…
June 1, 2012

MEDC Announces New Business Initiatives

The Michigan Economic Development Corporation at the Mackinac Policy Conference this week announced five new initiatives under the Pure Michigan Business Connect umbrella that will further help Michigan businesses grow and improve the state's economy. The new Pure Michigan Business…
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