Rose Ibokette-Perkins is glad that no other mother has to experience what she went through.
After Ibokette-Perkins’ son, Samuel King, lost his life at age 13 to a deadly genetic disease called adrenoleukodystrophy, she sprang into action.
State Rep. Jeremy Moss was angry when he fired off a response to the Orlando nightclub shooting in a Twitter posing that resonated across the country June 12.
And his anger hasn't subsided.
The Tweet put Moss, D-Southfield, under a national spotlight.
A succession of high-profile scandals in Michigan over the last year have cast a spotlight on the high cost of secrecy in state government. Now, there’s an opportunity for open records reform with a bipartisan 10-bill package that passed unanimously through a House committee this spring—and it’s championed by a young lawmaker who once trained as a reporter.
Democratic Incumbent Jeremy Moss is running for re-election to be State Representative for the 35th District which includes Southfield, Beverly Hills, Bingham Farms, Franklin and Lathrup Village. He has been in office nearly two years. Moss has no competition for the primary, but will face Republican Robert Brim on Nov. 8, 2016.
The deadliest mass shooting in US history reignites the national debate about terrorism, gun control, sexual orientation, and so much more. We ask the roundtable; will Orlando be the tragedy that changes policy?
The panel discusses House Republicans pushing a new plan to save Detroit Public Schools. The guest is Democratic Freshman Representative Jeremy Moss from Southfield. Susan Demas, Jonathan Oosting and Kathy Gray join Senior Capitol Correspondent Tim Skubick.
"I live in ground zero of gerrymandering in Michigan,” State Rep. Jeremy Moss (D-Southfield), an Oakland County native, told the HPR. “You don’t even need to know that much about Michigan or about Oakland County to look at a map and wonder: ‘Why are three districts in Oakland County literally spiraling around one another?’ ‘Why do neighboring towns called Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, and West Bloomfield all reside in different congressional districts?’"
Michigan’s governor, lieutenant governor and state legislators would be subject to public-records requests under bills advanced Thursday to the floor of the state House.
The bipartisan package, spearheaded by House Oversight Committee Chairman Ed McBroom and Rep. Jeremy Moss, seeks to lift blanket exemptions under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act, which applies to other government officials around the state.
Gov. Rick Snyder and lawmakers would be subject to similar transparency rules other government bodies in the state face under legislation advanced Thursday by a state House committee.
