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Image credit: Cheyna Roth/MPRN Government transparency and ethics groups are excited about the prospect of lame ducks on their last legs. There’s movement at the state Capitol toward putting limits on the Legislature’s lame duck session. That’s the time just after an even-year election that often sees hundreds of bills passed, often in the dead of night and with little review. As part of the weekly series MichMash, WDET’s Jake Neher and Slate’s Cheyna Roth talk about why transparency activists are excited about curbing the chaos of lame duck. Subscribe to  It’s a time whe...

Michigan’s Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission is expected to mull over ways to meet a constitutional deadline for district maps after the federal government announced last week it would delay census data integral to the map-drawing process. But the commission's prospective closed-session deliberations on the issue have raised concerns about transparency in the new redistricting process.  "Barely out of the gate, and what was to be a fully open and transparent commission is now shrouded in closed door meetings. Interesting," GOP consultant and Allegan County Republican Jason W...

Madrona teams up with Advancing Women in Product to boost female tech leadership February 4, 2021 at 9:59 am Underwritten by This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. Nancy Wang, CEO of Advancing Women in Product, and Hope Cochran, managing director at Madrona Venture Group. (AWIP and Madrona Photos) Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and M...

Stateside's conversation with Nancy Wang and Sue Hammersmith In 2018, Michigan voters passed the Independent Redistricting Commission Initiative (Proposal 2). In doing so, they commenced a process in which everyday citizens — rather than people who hold political office — draw the state’s new legislative districts, which are based on data from the 2020 Census. Now that the Census has finished gathering data from the public, who exactly is doing the work of redefining Michigan’s congressional boundaries? That would be a group of 13 randomly selected Michiganders who make up the stat...

  Michigan House Republicans on Wednesday introduced ethics policies they hope can at least begin to restore some of that trust. Reformers say it’s a baby step and several wholesale changes are needed in a state that ranks among the nation’s worst for government ethics and transparency laws. The Republican plan would create new conflict-of-interest policies for lawmakers, prohibiting them from voting on legislation from which they or their family could benefit. A companion proposal seeks to limit runaway partisanship in “lame-duck” sessions by requiring two-thirds approval to advance...