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Michigan House Approves Ethics Reform Package, But Opponents Call It An 'Illusion Of Transparency' - Detroit, MI - A bill package of lobbying, financial disclosure and ethics reforms passed through the House with bipartisan support Wednesday.
The Michigan Senate on Wednesday approved a series of departmental budget bills for the next fiscal year, including one eyebrow-raising measure that offers legal funds to a company suing the state.
And 51-49 approve her epidemic performance By May 11, 2021 A new poll indicates Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s overall approval rating has hit a new pandemic low of 49%, according to the left-leaning group Progress Michigan, which commissioned the survey. The poll was conducted by a liberal-leaning North Carolina firm on May 5-6, with 820 registered Michigan voters responding. It found 43% who strongly disapproved of Whitmer's job performance and 6% who somewhat disapproved, while 38% strongly approved and 11% somewhat approved. In April 2020, the same firm found that 54% of those sur...
Proposed financial disclosure bills wouldn’t make current lawmakers’ finances public Today 10:00 AM Facebook Share A new proposal in the Michigan House would compel lawmakers and state officers to disclose their personal financial interests for the first time — but that information wouldn’t be public until after they leave office, an arrangement that if signed into law, would diverge significantly from the 48 other states that currently require financial disclosure. Michigan has long been an outlier when it comes to identifying and regulating potential financial conflicts of interest...
Massachusetts’ state government has long been one of the least transparent in the country. Want to know how your representative voted in committee on a crucial climate change or police reform bill? Good luck with that. There’s no requirement the information be made public. Curious about who testified before the committee before it took its top-secret vote? You’re going to have trouble with that one too. And many of the documents that are readily accessible to the public in other states - e-mails, contracts, and memos at the heart of the people’s business - are off-limits here. Massach...