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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan shot a barb at Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel at a briefing Tuesday during questions about suburban county health departments receiving fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccines than the city.
The city received 15,000 doses this week while neighboring county health departments received fewer. Macomb County, for example, received 7,275 first doses of vaccine, just over half of what Detroit received and far fewer than the 50,000 doses Hackel has been asking the state and, most recently, President Joe Biden, for each week. I was happy for Macomb County that County Executive Hackel is taking COVID seriously. It was just a couple of months ago that he was publicly supporting the Unlock Michigan petition drive to take away the governor s ability to protect people on COVID, Duggan said during the briefing, in which he announced that food service workers, security guards and janitors who live or work in Detroit are now eligible for vaccination at the TCF Cen
Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel criticizes state s vaccination efforts
Macomb County is questioning if a change is needed in the COVID-19 vaccination plan.
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MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. (WXYZ) â Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel is criticizing the stateâs vaccination efforts saying itâs leaving the most vulnerable behind and setting up county health departments for failure.
The latest state vaccine dashboard numbers show more than 1,028,000 doses administered across Michigan. Thatâs about 26,000 more than on Monday.
Hackel says those numbers are a distraction from an important issue â that seniors are getting left behind.
âTrue leadership is realizing we are not going down the right path,â Hackel said.
Share February 03, 2021, 10:21 AM Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan publicly squabbled Tuesday after the mayor called out Hackel s support for an effort to limit the governor s ability to impose restrictions to limit spread. Duggan took the first shot in a media briefing Tuesday, saying of Hackel, It was just a couple of months ago that he was publicly supporting the Unlock Michigan petition drive to take away the governor s ability to protect people on COVID. I m glad County Executive Hackel is taking it seriously now. I think he should be advocating on behalf of his residents. That s what a county executive should do.
TCF Center s board, with no conventions, also has no budget amid spending battle
Macomb County s representative Marilyn Lane voting down budgets
2009 law requires all five members to unanimously approve spending decisions
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Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority board members (clockwise from top left): Marilyn Lane of Macomb County, Waymon Gillebeaux of Detroit, Lisa Canada of Wayne County and Jeffrey Lance Abood of Oakland County.
The regional board that governs TCF Center is violating a state law after failing for months to pass an operating budget, an impasse that continued Thursday after Macomb County s representative on the board twice voted against spending plans she said don t eliminate enough jobs.