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Whitmer and GOP align on avoiding more restrictions: The week in Michigan politics
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During a Zoom conference, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced new protocols mandating work bids include labor and environmental records, economic impact in Michigan and certification that the business has properly classified employees.
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LANSING, MI - For the first time in several months, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican leaders in the Michigan Legislature actually agree on something.
Whitmer this week opted to generally avoid imposing significant new COVID-19 restrictions, even though the state’s case and hospitalization rates are the worst in the country. Instead, the governor pushed once more for more people to get vaccinated and comply with mask-wearing and social-distancing guidelines.
Whitmer wants vaccines, not restrictions, to end Michigan coronavirus surge. Experts say it won’t happen.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer receives her first dose of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Joneigh Khaldun at Ford Field on Tuesday April, 6, 2021.Nicole Hester/Mlive.com
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Vaccinations are unlikely to bring a swift end to Michigan’s record-setting COVID-19 outbreak.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer imposed some of the toughest restrictions in the country when cases exploded across the state last year, but now she’s asking residents, schools and restaurants to voluntarily limit their activities. While Whitmer said she’s using every “tool in the toolbox” as infections in Michigan are at a national high, that no longer appears to include shutting down activities with state health department orders.
Commentary: 5 billion plausible explanations for Whitmer s different tack on COVID
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the Pause to Save Lives partial business shutdown Nov. 15, 2020 when there were fewer people hospitalized for COVID-19, a lower average daily number of new cases and lower seven-day average positivity rate than Michigan is experiencing in the current COVID-19 surge.
There are five billion reasons why Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hasn t ordered the closure of schools and non-essential businesses to curb the rampant spread of COVID-19 that s making Michigan look like America s pandemic backwater right now.
Actually, there are 5.7 billion.
The once-in-a-lifetime infusion of $5.7 billion in federal funding for Michigan s recovery is quite simply the greatest gift any governor facing re-election in 19 months could ever ask for.
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