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Secrecy Enables Pork Barrel Waste

The mystery of anonymous earmarks: WhoSpentIt?

… budget office, the legislature and the governor’s office in 2014, but was stymied at every turn. The private, for-profit Michigan International Speedway has also been a direct beneficiary of multiple one-time grants to underwrite traffic control at their events. The system of secretive grantmaking …

Secrecy enables pork barrel waste

The mystery of anonymous earmarks: WhoSpentIt?

… budget office, the legislature and the governor’s office in 2014, but was stymied at every turn. The private, for-profit Michigan International Speedway has also been a direct beneficiary of multiple one-time grants to underwrite traffic control at their events. The system of secretive grant making …

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 …

Not Training Staff On COVID Symptoms And More Earns Speedway Station $6,300 Fine

… the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) monitoring compliance by businesses with COVID-19 executive order requirements. A Speedway gas station in Waterford was fined $6,300 by an inspector for nine violations, including: - The employer allowed employees to inadequately wear …

House Passes On Chance To ‘Fix The Roads’ With New Spending Bill

But money for Capitol security cameras, Michigan Speedway traffic control, tourism marketing and much more

… $500,000 for city of Lansing security cameras around the state Capitol. $500,000 for traffic control services benefiting Michigan International Speedway. When Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave the nationally televised Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, she spoke about …

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 …

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 …

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 …

July 22, 2016 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report

Plates for me, plates for thee, plates for the man behind the tree

… 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 license plates would go to charitable organizations created by these entities. Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate on May …

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]