We are just about done with 2024, yet here in Michigan, we have a lame-duck session of the state legislature that has gone longer than usual but has not accomplished much of anything. Yet it could have, and It would have been pretty damn cool and useful to the citizens of the Great Lake State.
One key issue was Freedom of Information Act reform — which, when I say “reform,” what I mean is we can’t check up on the governor and the legislature because they are currently EXEMPT from such laws. They could have changed that but decided not to.
Democrats currently control the governorship with Gretchen Whitmer, the state house with Democrat House Speaker Joe Tate, and the State Senate Majority Leader, who is also a Democrat, Winnie Brinks.
All of them choked on this common sense idea to make themselves transparent to the taxpayers of this state.
How I know…
