Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is ending a mandate that likely would have been in place through summer. But policing who has a vaccine and who doesn’t will likely prove impossible.
‘We’re not going to ask for proof’: Michigan’s mask mandate change complicates things for businesses
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Tyler Rorah, 18, of Brooksville, receives a Moderna COVID 19 vaccine shot from LPN Sonie Woods, right, while receiving his CDC (issued) Covid 10 Vaccination Card during his vaccination appointment on Monday, April 5, 2021.Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP
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Vaccinated people no longer have to mask up indoors in Michigan starting this weekend – a move applauded by many state business leaders.
But the move also complicates the mask mandate which still remains in effect indoors for unvaccinated people and brings new questions about how the rule will be enforced. With the Legislature and business leaders speaking out against the idea of vaccine passports, it leaves the new rules subject to the honor system.
Budget talks advance, GOP election bills tweaked: The week in Michigan politics
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LANSING, MI - This week in Lansing was more about molding legislation than passing bills, at least on major topics.
Both chambers made moves to further clarify key initiatives, with budget talks picking up in the House and Senate and amendments made to Senate Republican election bills.
The House continued to tackle ethics reform, while Republicans in both chambers moved to allow high schools to hold in-person commencements. Here’s what happened this week at the Michigan Capitol:
Budget talks evolve
Quarterly budgets for many state agencies, staffing cuts and additional limits on how state agencies can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic all remain on the table as Michigan lawmakers move forward with setting the state’s annual budget.
Prominent business families own jet reportedly linked to Whitmer Florida trip
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer won t divulge details of an out-of-state trip she took to visit her ailing father.
The private jet reportedly linked to a much-criticized trip Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to Florida in March is owned by well-known names in metro Detroit business.
Neither the governor nor the jet s operator are answering questions about whether Whitmer used the plane co-owned by the Nicholson, Cotton and Moroun families in mid-March to visit her father in Florida.
Since revelations last month that Whitmer briefly left the state for a previously undisclosed trip to see her elderly father amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the governor and her office have steadfastly refused to say where she went, when she went and whose plane she took.