ABC News: May 29, 2014
Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday urged legislators to consider updating Michigan’s civil rights law to prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation or gender identity, applauding companies and the state’s two largest regional chambers of commerce for joining a business-backed push to amend the law.
Continue ReadingMLive: May 29, 2014
JACKSON, MI – More than $414 million is what Michigan International Speedway brings into the economy on a yearly basis, officials announced at the annual Mackinac Policy Conference Thursday, May 29.
Continue ReadingCrain’s Detroit Business: May 29, 2014
MACKINAC ISLAND — The state’s two largest chambers were to announce Thursday that they had joined the coalition working to amend state civil rights law to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Continue ReadingDetroit Free Press: May 29, 2014
Gov. Rick Snyder sees an opportunity for the Michigan Legislature to move this year to include sexual orientation into the state’s anti-discrimination law, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act protects Michigan residents from discrimination based on race, gender, age and other characteristics, but not sexual orientation.
Detroit Free Press: May 29, 2014
The Michigan Secretary of State is partnering with AAA Michigan to offer some of its online services at local branches.
Computer and printer access to the Secretary of State’s online portal at ExpressSOS.com will be introduced first in AAA Michigan’s centers in downtown Detroit, Livonia and Grand Rapids by early fall and then likely include all AAA Michigan’s 31 sites, Secretary of State Ruth Johnson was to announce today at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference.
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