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Sheriff Questions Racetrack's $800,000 State Police Subsidy

Other venues pay for the service; state taxpayers pick up NASCAR track's tab

… support at Michigan International Speedway. In separate letters sent to House … for state police patrols at the speedway. “I wholeheartedly believe that … disappointment about the state subsidy of speedway events. Bouchard said that concert … reimbursed us,” Shaw said. The speedway is the only venue included in the …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2013 Edition

… Viewers How Taxpayers Are Funding Political Lobbying Michigan Company Billed $465,774 for Teamsters Pension After Laying Off Its Last Unionized Trucker Speedway Assistance: Public Safety or Corporate Welfare? Michigan’s Craziest Laws: Don’t Seduce an Unmarried Woman or Dance to the National Anthem Proposed …

Kansas City Star Boilermakers Investigation

… The union even spent $43,000 to send Newton’s 23-year-old son to film school in British Columbia. The union also maintained a suite at the Kansas Speedway racetrack, which cost $40,000 per year.[25]

MichiganVotes.org June 11 Weekly Roll Call Report

… Complete Roll Call Vote Tally House Bill 6235, Extend Michigan International Speedway tax break, passed in the House (92 to 12) To push back from 2012 to 2017 the year by which Michigan International Speedway must make certain infrastructure improvements for which the state will …

Government Backs out of State Fair Land Deal

… hotels. Then the cities of Detroit, Ferndale, Huntington Woods and Pleasant Ridge filed suit in Wayne County Circuit Court to stop construction of the speedway and amphitheater. This was enough to make Nederlander give up on the idea and sell the land. Even though the deal with the government hadn't been …

MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL

Summer 2011 Edition

… Government-Mandated Beer Contracts: Harder to Escape Than Marriage? Ann Arbor Schools Find and Oust 200 Ineligible Dependents from District Health Plan Super Speedway Notches Second State Subsidy Lawmaker Seeks More Transparency for SWAT Team Raids Ineligible Dependents on Ann Arbor Schools’ Health Plan Cost District …

Medical Pot Bringing $8.8M, 48 New Positions to Michigan State Police

They’ll enforce licensure mandates imposed by a ‘seed to sale’ regulatory regime authorized last year

… includes specific police training program additions ($1 million), a student safety hotline ($608,300) and traffic control at the Michigan International Speedway ($800,000). Matt Abel, the executive director of Michigan NORML, an organization that works to end state prohibitions on marijuana, said he wasn’t …

Authorize “Choose Life” and Pro-Sports License Plates; Ban Police Sex with Prostitutes and Lasing Aircraft

April 28, 2017 MichiganVotes weekly roll call report

… plate for professional sports teams, including the Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Lions, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Tigers and the Michigan International Speedway. Proceeds from the sale of the plates would go to charitable organizations created by these entities. Note: The facilities used by these operations …

Whitmer's 'Enhanced' Executive Order Penalties Appear Outside The Law And Constitution

State sidestepping state of emergency law by pulling sanctions from a different law

… cause, death or serious physical harm to the employee. A general duty clause citation carries a fine of up to $7,000.” For example, the state cited a Speedway gas station in Waterford where employees were inadequately wearing face masks under the nose, and that was not providing face coverings to employees …

Thirty-One MEDC Salaries Top $100K

… Economic Central Planning Agency Embattled Agency in Charge of Special Tax Favors Snaps at Critics Critics Shoot at Special Tax Deal for Super Speedway State Taxpayers Eat $350K Loan for East Lansing Property Purchase Google Jobs Lacking, Yet Some Locals Still Consider It a 'Badge of Honor' for …