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Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) introduced the Increasing Developing Entrepreneurship Access (IDEA) Act of 2021. This legislation will create a grant program to develop a network of business accelerators that promote growth for minority-owned businesses through enhanced access to capital, business networks and supply chains.
The “Build Back Better” legislation played as a backdrop for U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during her Saturday visit to Plymouth.
Pelosi was joined by Democratic Congresswomen Haley Stevens (M-11) and Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and business leaders as part of a workforce roundtable at the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Nick Mordowanec)
“We’re learning to dance in the rain.”
James Kuhl, producing artistic director for Northville’s Tipping Point Theatre, said he’s beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel as vaccinations increase, but admitted the pandemic has posed as a big challenge to the theatre and many other live performance venues and cultural institutions across Michigan that have yet to reopen.
Part of President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda deals with infrastructure and a commitment to clean energy.
News of Carl Levin’s death spread fast across Michigan with friends, colleagues, and even some political foes paying their respects to one of Michigan’s iconic public servants.
On Thursday, Levin, a Detroit native and Michigan’s longest-serving U.S. senator, died following a four-year battle with lung cancer that he made public in March. He was 87 years old.
Members of Congress are continuing to call for the release of Americans wrongfully detained in Russian prisons.
On Thursday, U.S. Reps. Haley Stevens (MI-11) and August Pfluger (TX-11 ) held a press conference Thursday with family members of Paul Whelan, a Michigan native, and Trevor Reed, a Texas native, as well as members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Livonia wants to relocate and rebuild its senior center without going before voters with a tax request. It appears on track to do that.
An 8-mile stretch of Beck Road between Wixom and Northville Township may soon be transformed thanks to the availability of new federal funding sources.
WASHINGTON - The calls for reopening the international border between the U.S. and Canada in Detroit are getting louder. And two of the loudest voices urging a change in strategy just let her opinion known.
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