--- Thousands of state employees are today waiting on pins and needles for the Snyder administration to deliver 30-day layoff notices to state employee unions, as promised. Weeks ago, administration officials had pledged to proceed with budget cuts including layoffs if no progress had been made in talks with unions to achieve $145 million in concessions.
At last check, no progress has been made.
Even if layoffs are sent today, as expected, the administration and unions could work out a solution before layoffs go into effect Oct. 1.
-- Mass confusion could erupt today among shoppers at thousands of stores across Michigan.
Or not.
A new lifting the requirement that stores put price tags on all items goes into effect today. The law had been pushed by the Snyder administration as a way to lower business costs and increase efficiency among retailers. Opponents derided the law as anti-consumer.
No doubt consumers will survive the new law. And they can always put their faith in those checkout scanners.
Those scanners are never wrong.
-- Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer has been busy over summer recess – getting married to her Lansing dentist, Marc Mallory.
“They did meet because he was her dentist, but she was not on anesthesia when he asked her out on a date,” Whitmer’s spokeswoman, Katie Carey, joked to the Detroit News.
The East Lansing Democrat has butted heads quite a bit with Senate Republicans over the past year, so it’s good to know she has a trusty dentist on hand to address any loose fillings caused by a slugfest.
Capitol Journal wishes the newlyweds all the best.
