Blog categorized as Business

With the Michigan Chamber of Commerce on the losing end of several lame duck votes, Chamber Vice President Wendy Block said the Chamber wouldn't rule out a statewide petition drive.

Legislation known as “polluter pay,” bills designed to crack down on entities that pollute property and don't clean it up, passed the Senate shortly after 5 a.m. Friday morning, a win for environmentalists who have long sought the policy.

Michigan hotels would be banned from ramping up costs by more than 10 percent in an area hit by a declared state of emergency, under bills passed by Senate Democrats Thursday afternoon.

Senate Democrats on Thursday passed a sweeping “consumer protection” law reminiscent of legislation passed in the 1970s designed to give residents more ability to sue businesses that act in arguably deceptive or fraudulent ways.

A conversation-starter proposal to raise the state’s 6 percent corporate income tax (CIT) to 10 percent with the additional revenue going to give public school teachers an estimated $20,000-a-year raise was circulated on the House floor today for co-sponsorship.