Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Mar. 29, 2024 PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION   After years of neglect and power outages, too numerous to count, often attributed to tree-trimming and not the infrastructure, DTE Energy unabashedly filed another rate increase request-four months after the last one was approved. This time claiming the funds

Dec. 5, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Plymouth residents can expect to pay premium prices for more blackouts and intermittent service   By:  Don Howard This week right after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed three proposed green energy bills, the strictest energy mandate in the nation-forcing transition from fossil

Oct. 20, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION By:  Jarrett Skorup Renter’s ‘Bill of Rights’ would spike Michigan housing costs in a way that would make things much worse for renters …   Michigan lawmakers are rightfully concerned about housing affordability. But a bill package floating around Lansing

Jun. 22, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Today the Michigan Senate Energy and Environment Committee heard testimony on Senate Bills 271-277  – part of the Michigan Senate Democrats’ Clean Energy Future Plan. The subject Senate Bills according to the Mackinaw Center for Public Policy are blackout bills that

Feb. 2, 2023  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION Thousands of post cards are filling mailboxes in our community calling for residents to contact their Lansing lawmakers; the ones who are backed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. They’re the work of a conservative advocacy group, known as Americans for Prosperity,

Jun. 6, 2022  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Last week in a public relations release titled “Fix the Damn Roads,” Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced road repair projects that are expected to soon begin in six Michigan counties, including Wayne, Iosco, Ogemaw, Saginaw, Tuscola and Washtenaw, The sole Wayne County

May 28, 2022  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   OPINION   The shutdown of a nuclear power plant makes the state vulnerable to cloudy, windless days   By: Jason Hayes Whatever hopes people might have had for saving Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, it’s too late. On May 20, the

May 9, 2022  PLYMOUTH EAGLE. Plymouth Michigan News   Reconstruction has been delayed by more than 2-years Governor Gretchen Whitmer joined staff from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to tour a road construction project in Canton Township last month, following an announcement that the proposed Ford Road reconstruction in

Apr. 22, 2022  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Whitmer makes 11th hour move to keep nuclear plant from closing Just weeks before the planned closure of the Palisades nuclear plant Gov. Gretchen Whitmer moved to keep the controversial nuclear facility on-line. As reported by Bridge Michigan, Whitmer stated its

Mar. 8, 2022  PLYMOUTH VOICE. Plymouth Michigan News   Last week the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate voted to send a $2.5 billion tax cut proposal to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk. With billions of dollars in surplus funds GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate pushed to drop the state’s income tax