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Governor Gretchen Whitmer tried to stop speculation Thursday that local governments and state universities risk losing funding if they have COVID-19 vaccine or mask mandates. Republicans put language to that effect in the state budget the governor signed this week.
Lansing political scene reacts to James Craig's possible political play Published FOX 2 - When Macomb County's Candice Miller, described as the dream candidate, said she would not run for governor, the state GOP chair Ron Weiser started a furious hunt for another dream candidate and to date, the popular wisdom was, he had not found one. Lansing reacts to James Craig mulling over gubernatorial run The chief may be a household name in Detroit but in the rest of the state, he's a question mark. Could Detroit Police Chief James Craig be that person? Some Republicans in this town think so but on...
Throughout her 2 1/2 years in office, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has rarely agreed with the Michigan Legislature on policy issues. The governor's unilateral approach to handling the state's COVID-19 response not only locked out the Legislature but also damaged this relationship. Now with the possibility that one-person governance will be over, the governor and Legislature need to determine what policy changes they'll focus on when they return to the normal lawmaking process. There are plenty of issues that they ought to come together on. The state has been showered with cash from the federal g...
Whitmer visited her father in out-of-state trip Updated 9:33 PM; Today 9:33 PM Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks as she visits a vaccine clinic at the EMU Convocation Center on Monday, April 12, 2021.Jacob Hamilton | The Ann Arbor News Facebook Share Gov. Gretchen Whitmer left the state more than a month ago to visit her elderly father who suffers from a chronic illness, a spokesperson confirmed on Monday after the trip was first reported by MIRS News. “In the past six months she has left the state three times, once for the inauguration, once to assist her elderly father who is battling a chr...
Tim Skubick With $10 billion in new federal coronavirus relief assistance flowing into state coffers, would it not be ironic if a hunting trip turned out to be the element needed to end a feud between the governor and the Republican-controlled Legislature on spending this cash? Even if you’ve only been half awake these past few months, you must have bumped into this ugly back-and-forth going on in our town. The governor hangs on for dear life to her emergency powers to curb the spread and spiraling death count of the virus, while the GOP-dominated Legislature scratches to get a seat at her...