Jamie A. Hope

Lansing, Mount Cold

Writer, Contributor and Assistant Managing Editor at Michigan Capitol Confidential

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Mackinac Center sues Flint Community Schools

1 week ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has sued Flint Community Schools for failing to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act request. The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation filed the suit April 30 on behalf of Michigan Capitol Confidential after the school district failed to fulfill a Feb. 17 FOIA request for records on expenditures for out-of-state travel by district staff in 2023 and 2024.
Dues-skim union has no bargaining power for home care providers

1 week ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

One of America’s largest unions is targeting Michigan home health care providers for dues under a 2024 law that reclassified their employment status. But the union is making promises it can’t keep, according to a legal expert. Caregivers from around the state are reporting to Michigan Capitol Confidential that representatives of the Service Employees International Union have appeared at their homes and sent union solicitations in the mail.
Two Democratic lawmakers agree: AG Nessel sicced government on business owners during pandemic

2 weeks ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

News Story Tucker Carlson blasts Michigan’s attorney general over her 2021 arrest of a business owner A restaurant owner who was arrested and jailed for operating her Holland restaurant during the COVID pandemic asked the Legislature to rein in the power of unelected bureaucrats during testimony April 23 at a Weaponization of State Government subcommittee hearing.
Owosso barber still battling $9K in fines from Whitmer lockdown

2 weeks ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

Michigan residents and small business owners targeted by the Whitmer administration got a long-delayed chance to speak on April 23 as the Republican-controlled state House held its first hearings on government overreach during the COVID lockdowns. Two business owners and a lawyer described how they were targeted by Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Whitmer administration, and local government at the House's Weaponization of State Government hearing. Gov.
Caregivers protest union effort to skim home helpers’ pay

2 weeks ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

The Service Employees International Union is renewing its efforts to take money from the paychecks of Michigan residents who care for dependents at home. Michigan Capitol Confidential recently talked with two caregivers who have firsthand knowledge of the union’s effort to revive a scheme from decades past. The SEIU for many years targeted people who received payments from a state health care program for taking care of their loved ones at home.
Park Township short-term rental owners seek grandfathered properties

3 weeks ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

News Story Government has allowed short-term rentals despite a 1974 law banning them More than 40 Park Township residents testified at a special Zoning Board of Appeals hearing on March 31 to urge members to grandfather in properties used as short-term rentals.
Michigan’s updated pandemic playbook heavy on lockdowns, light on proof

1 month ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

Michigan's current pandemic plan cites evidence that does not appear to support its lockdown measures, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services updated its pandemic emergency plan in 2024, several years after the last of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdowns came to an end.
Carrollton teacher hopes that Michigan lawmaker ‘chokes on a bag of [expletive] and dies’

1 month ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

This article contains partially expunged profane, vulgar and obscene language. A Carrollton Public Schools teacher delivered a threatening and profanity-laced speech during a Bay City commissioners meeting earlier this week. Michigan Capitol Confidential confirmed with multiple sources that the speaker is Matthew Sylvester, a history teacher at Carrollton Public Schools.
Consumers Energy requests another rate hike one week after approval of $154 million increase

1 month ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

Attorney General Dana Nessel criticized Consumers Energy on April 1 for seeking a rate hike request shortly after the Michigan Public Service Commission approved a $154 million increase it sought in an earlier request. The earlier request, from 2024, was settled on March 21, 2025, Danny Wimmer, press secretary for Nessel, told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email.
Farmers, builders accuse state environmental agency of bullying and overreach

1 month ago | michigancapitolconfidential.com | Jamie A. Hope

More than 10 agriculture professionals alleged bullying, intimidation and harassment by state environmental officials at a recent hearing. Agricultural professionals who have had run-ins with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy descended on the Capitol on March 18, some with tractors in tow, to air their grievances. The environmental agency has strangled the state’s food and farming industry, according to testimony in the over three-hour hearing of the House Oversight Committee.