Blog tagged as Local Government

A petition to recall Lucy Ebel, the 2nd district Ottawa County commissioner, was filed on Monday by Larry Jackson, former Democratic candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives’ District 86 seat.

The Senate Labor Committee took testimony Wednesday on legislation that unweaves a Snyder-era ban and would allow local governments to adopt ordinances setting higher minimum wage rates and better benefits than those existing statewide.

Attorneys for Concerned Pastors for Social Action filed a motion Friday seeking contempt charges against the city of Flint and its mayor for missing court-ordered deadlines to replace the city's lead water pipes.

Three years after heavy rains broke the Edenville and Sanford dams, area residents who were flooded out at the time are still not whole, as many homeowners have double mortgages they cannot possibly pay off in their lifetime, according to Sanford Village Councilman Carl Hamann.

Sen. Sue Shink (D-Ann Arbor) is aiming to revoke a nearly 7-year-old ban in Michigan prohibiting local governments from adopting ordinances that outlawed plastic bags and other disposable containers.