The state’s Child Development and Care (CDC) Program, which provides payment assistance for child care to qualified families, has come under a lot of fire recently – especially after a Detroit Free Press report revealed recurring problems that have left providers unpaid and parents unexpectedly and sometimes erroneously without funds they had been promised for […]

The House Criminal Justice Committee recently approved a bipartisan plan I am working on to restore arbitration rights for sheriff’s deputies who work as corrections officers in Michigan. A labor strike involving public safety officials would pose a serious threat to community safety – which is why our state laws provide police officers and firefighters […]