May 27, 2009 | Membership
Mike Nystrom, MITA’s Vice President of Government and Public Relations, has been voted one of the top lobbyists in the state by the Michigan Information and Research Service. Nystrom earned the honors for his efforts lobbying state legislators regarding issues...
Mar 31, 2009 | Membership
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today signed legislation authorizing Michigan to spend $873 million of federal recovery money on hundreds of road and transit projects across the state that will create approximately 25,000 jobs. Mike Nystrom and Keith Ledbetter of MITA...
Nov 21, 2008 | Membership
Recently, several MITA members received letters from the MI Unemployment Insurance Agency notifying them that a “solvency tax” would be added to their 2009 unemployment tax rate due to a negative balance in the state’s Unemployment Trust Fund. Employers, who have...
Nov 19, 2008 | Membership
MITA issued a statewide press release today announcing a landmark $1.5 billion economic stimulus plan that would rescue the state’s crumbling transportation infrastructure. The plan, which follows last week’s recommendations from the Transportation Funding Task Force...