Michigan Senate approves $1.9B COVID-19 relief funding bill
Lansing Capitol building on Sept. 19, 2019. Photo by Connor Desilets | The State News
The Michigan Senate approved over $1.9 billion COVID-19 relief funding bill on Thursday that includes:
Senate bills 29 and 114 passed 20-15 during the Feb. 25 session.
The package that the Senate approved is less than a third of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s $5.6 billion supplemental spending plan.
“The Senate has now approved roughly $6 billion in COVID-19 relief to improve access to lifesaving vaccines while also supporting our front-line workers, students, small businesses and people trying to make ends meet,” Jim Stamas, Senate Appropriation Committee chairman, said in a press release Thursday.
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Catholic priest told parole board his sexual misconduct with teen was ‘shameful, inappropriate’
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
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SAGINAW, MI In being interviewed for his prospective parole, a Roman Catholic priest told state officials his sexual misconduct with a teen was “shameful and inappropriate.”
After news broke on Feb. 13 that Robert J. “Father Bob” DeLand Jr., 74, had been approved for parole, MLive-The Saginaw News submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Michigan Department of Corrections for parole board members’ notes, recommendations, and findings.
DeLand in March 2019 pleaded no contest to second-degree criminal sexual conduct, gross indecency between two males, and manufacturing or distributing an imitation controlled substance. By pleading no contest as opposed to guilty, DeLand did not admit to having committed any crime, though presiding Saginaw County Chief Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson treated him as guilty when he sentenced