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Royal Oak city commissioners Monday unanimously supported efforts to secure federal funding for a new KidZone at the Detroit Zoo, and the city partnership with the YMCA to create a new community recreation center.
City Commissioner Brandon Kolo introduced the two resolutions. He said Congresswoman Haley Stevens – who represents the 11th Congressional District, which includes most of Oakland County – is working to get supplemental federal funding for the two projects.
For all of its challenges, the Covid-19 pandemic has proven to have rightfully accelerated discussion and possible action on a few public policy issues, one of those is paid leave. Efforts to tackle paid leave have provided a prime bipartisan opportunity for lawmakers, especially following the current Administration's efforts to include paid leave in their Build Back Better (BBB) framework, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and in both Chambers, have rightfully so, rolled up their sleeves to attempt to tackle this challenging issue.
A bipartisan bill introduced by members of Congress calls for a day dedicated to Americans held by other countries without cause.
If signed into law, March 9 would become National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day. Sponsors include U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat; French Hill, Arkansas Republican, and U.S. Senators Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat; Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican; Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat; and Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated in 2021 that employment in data science-related jobs would grow 36 percent by 2031 as various industries look to use data to streamline day-to-day operations.
Waterford Township’s progress in 2022 and 2023 includes a new master plan, an expanded transit system, pavement improvement and brighter streetlights, according to the township’s supervisor, Gary Wall.
Housing remains a concern as does creating more walkable destinations. One goal, reviving the Drayton Plains area as a retail center, will be aided by a $750,000 grant secured by U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens, he said. Another is increasing the housing stock. The township cleared the way for new housing after demolishing 23 old homes in a blight-reduction effort.
Is investing in research the best way for the United States to compete with China, or would imposing additional sanctions to prevent the rival superpower from stealing U.S. technology be a better strategy? This week, two committees of the U.S. House of Representatives debated those two approaches to dealing with the increasingly tense U.S.-Chinese relationship.
The new House China Select Committee previewed its agenda for this Congress in a prime-time evening hearing on Tuesday that revealed early partisan fault lines in the body’s legislative agenda.
The hearing — whose witnesses included former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster — marked the climax of a full day of intensive congressional scrutiny of China through seven hearings on Tuesday.
A cocktail party on Capitol Hill is often hardly notable.
But at one recent soiree, the clinking of glasses had a different ring. Members of both parties joined together to kick off a renewed effort to solve a uniquely American problem: no universal paid family and medical leave.
It's been 30 years since the Family and Medical Leave Act became law. It guaranteed workers the right to unpaid, job-protected time off.
FARMINGTON — When the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill Dec. 23 to fund the federal government through fiscal year 2023, one of the big winners was the city of Farmington.
The spending package includes $16.4 million for U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens’ 15 community funding projects.
Of that money, Farmington is set to receive $2.1 million for the Shiawassee Connection Project, which will connect the downtown with Shiawassee Park.