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Dealing with the growing talent gap, civility in politics and updating tidings of the Motor City were themes at the recent Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference where 1,700 leaders from business and politics migrated north.
Two cities in Michigan are set to play host to "March Against Sharia" protests Saturday as part of a series of national events, sparking criticism and counterprotests from members of the Muslim community and supporters.
Representatives from the U.S. airline industry and members of Congress renewed the debate over the Open Skies agreement in May when they again accused Gulf carriers of profiting from government subsidies, and asked President Donald Trump’s administration to reexamine the existing agreements.
Michigan lawmakers on Capitol Hill were divided in their assessments of Thursday’s testimony from James Comey, the former FBI director who was abruptly fired last month by President Donald Trump. Comey said Trump asked him to back off the investigation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, leading Democrats to suggest it amounted to obstruction of justice.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his administration’s efforts to create a more business-friendly regulatory environment in the U.S. will encourage private companies to invest in construction of public assets such as airports, bridges and highways.
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Representative Jack Bergman, U.S. Senator Gary Peters, and Representatives Sandy Levin, Fred Upton, Bill Huizenga, Tim Walberg, Dan Kildee, Mike Bishop, Debbie Dingell, Brenda Lawrence, John Moolenaar, Dave Trott, and Paul Mitchell today introduced the bipartisan Soo Locks Modernization Act.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers from Great Lakes states wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, urging him to stop the Canadian plan to build a nuclear waste repository less than a mile from Lake Huron in Ontario. The letter – led by Michigan Reps.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan offered a stinging rebuke to the Democratic Party on Thursday, warning that its disarray could give rise to a third national political party and that he was "so frustrated with the Hillary Clinton campaign, I could have screamed." "They never articulated a vision for why there would be more opportunity for people willing to work hard and get new schools," he said.
In his keynote address Thursday afternoon at the Mackinac Policy Conference, Gov. Rick Snyder provided an overview of the three conference pillars: restoring civility in U.S. political discourse, promoting economic opportunity and leading the way in connected mobility. “They’re (the pillars), not separate things,” Snyder said.
U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.), Brenda Lawrence (D–Mich.), Dave Trott (R–Mich.) and Fred Upton (R–Mich.) gathered Thursday afternoon at the Mackinac Policy Conference to discuss key issues both federal and statewide and the bipartisan solutions they use to encourage Michigan’s growth. The event fell under the conference pillar of restoring civility in U.S.