The House Oversight Committee took testimony on a package of 30 bills that would provide “guardrails” to limit and codify existing state emergency powers. Rep. Julie Alexander (R-Hanover) testified on the package, […]
In the last 100 years, the correlation between how Democrats do in congressional elections and how Democratic candidates do in state legislative races is nearly identical. Proportionally, the number of […]
Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) head Quentin Messer Jr. told MIRS more investments are necessary to keep Michigan competitive, and “there better be more coming if I want to keep my job.” In the […]
After more than three years spent at the design table, the Senate passed legislation to allow child care providers to accept a few more kids, give them 90-day grace periods […]
(MACKINAC ISLAND) – Although around 136,000 women left the labor force during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Nancy Tellemof the BasBlue women’s club in Detroit believes that now, women can design […]
The Let MI Kids Learn, Secure MI Vote, and One Fair Wage citizen-backed initiatives announced the campaigns have enough petition signatures, but would not turn in the signatures Wednesday, which […]
Several candidates, including five gubernatorial candidates, were ruled ineligible to be on the August primary ballot after a deadlock vote from the Board of State Canvassers regarding fraudulent signatures submitted. […]
The Senate passed a gas tax vacation package to temporarily suspend both Michigan’s gas tax and the sales tax on motor fuel, hoping to sidestep projections of gasoline prices hitting […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Monday touted a $2.1 billion MI New Economy plan to help small businesses and workers capitalize on a growing economy, but businesses are still dealing with pandemic-related echoes that […]
The Republican-led Senate and House passed out $2.5 billion in tax reductions, including an expansion of Michigan’s Earned Income Tax Credit from 6% to 20% in the 2022 tax year […]
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) introduced the new deputy director of Office of Rural Development (ORD) and talked about where initial focus would be placed by […]
(HOWELL) — The record 10-person Republican gubernatorial field separated themselves more clearly along ideological lines at Thursday night’s first post-filing deadline debate, based on the observations of those watching the […]
A broad coalition of business, housing, economic development, anti-poverty, energy and environmental groups Thursday called on the Governor and Legislature to prioritize affordable, healthy homes for Michigan families. The Resilient […]
Forty-one Republicans and 13 Democrats — all of whom either currently serve in the Legislature or who have served in the past — were endorsed Wednesday in the first wave […]
Promote the Vote 2022, the constitutional amendment proposal that would allow voters without an ID to vote with an affidavit and creates an early voting system in Michigan, has spent […]
Republicans have promised to deliver worthwhile tax relief in the age of ascending inflation and costly necessities, and GOP senators hope a $2 billion “tax cut” allowance will help them […]
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to review a four-state challenge to the 2017 tax law capping federal tax deductions for state and local taxes, known as SALT. As a […]
Roughly 10% of the spending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wanted in next year’s health and human services budget was cut out of a Senate plan that moved out of subcommittee Wednesday afternoon as […]
