Pappageorge Bill to Encourage Legislative Hearings on Administrative Rules
The Legislature’s job does not end when we pass a law. Once the law is in the hands of the Executive Branch they must promulgate the law. The law may be five, ten or twenty pages. The rules to implement it can amount to hundreds of pages.More

The 16th Annual Urban Wheel Awards, hosted by the Emerging Diversity Education Fund and Decisive Media, announced the finalists of the 2012 Supplier of the Year Awards who will be honored on Sunday January 8, 2012 at the Sound Board Theater, MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, Mich.
The busy holiday season is also a peak time of year in which families choose to bring new pet family members into their homes. To help encourage prospective pet owners to consider adopting a homeless animal, the Dearborn Animal Shelter is offering reduced adoption fees this Friday and Saturday for cats and kittens.
The City of Dearborn is taking one of its first steps toward reducing its climate impact by working with Clean Energy Coalition to conduct a community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory. The inventory will quantify all GHG emissions generated within the City’s boundaries during a particular year to establish an emissions baseline.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s Office of the Great Lakes has released a report which assesses Michigan’s progress in meeting its obligations under the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact.
State and federal officials today announced a $2.1 million federal grant for a collaborative effort to create new jobs and technologies related to the rapidly emerging advanced energy storage system (AESS) in Southeast Michigan.