One Fair Wage Action, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit set up to help tipped servers get out of scratching an existence based on tips, is the driving force behind the latest effort […]
Gyms, movie theaters, bars and the industries most impacted by COVID-era restrictions would get a chunk of federal COVID-19 relief dollars under a $186.1 million spending plan that passed the […]
Michigan would kick $250 million into the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund as a way to make sure businesses aren’t paying for reported fraud coming out of the unemployment agency during […]
State government’s flush times don’t appear to be ending any time soon. The Governor and legislative leaders can expect $2.6 billion more than expected for the fiscal year that ended […]
The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday stopped the President Joe Biden administration’s vaccination-or-testing requirement on the nation’s largest employers. The court allowed, however, the administration’s mandate for most health care workers at federally funded health […]
Michigan broke another COVID-19 record during this current surge of cases, obtaining the highest daily average of 12,680 new cases over the last seven days. Wednesday, Michigan reported 27,346 new […]
A group of current and former Black state legislators announced Monday their lawsuit challenging the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission’s (MICRC) newly adopted maps. The suit, which attorney Nabih Ayad filed late […]
When the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) completed its work Tuesday with the Chestnut Congressional map being adopted, it quickly started a domino effect that pits several incumbents against […]
After a year of sometimes rocky collaboration, questions about transparency, and plenty of public comments, the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission Tuesday (MICRC) approved Congressional, State Senate, and State House […]
The House and Senate sent to the Governor Tuesday evening a $75 million small business tax cut that emerged as a piece of the economic development deal reached Tuesday on […]
The House, Senate and Governor’s office finalized $1 billion in a new economic development fund Tuesday designed to lure large industrial projects to Michigan. The bills creating the funds that […]
The Senate approved its side of the massive economic development plan, which would produce new incentive programs in hopes that Michigan will be more ripe for large-scale business endeavors. “These […]
A Sen. Wayne A. Schmidt (R-Traverse City) bill aiming to boost the state’s earned income tax credits (EITCs) by up to 30% of an individual’s federal EITC over several years received its first hearing Wednesday […]
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday shifted the state’s legal strategy against Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline by voluntarily dismissing her 2020 lawsuit to focus on a separate, but similar, lawsuit filed in state […]
House and Senate leaders are meeting with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office on how to spend what is now at least $15 billion in federal dollars and higher-than-expected state tax revenue before […]
The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has six Senate maps it can choose among when it gets together next month to make its final pick for 2021-2031. However, the focus at […]
The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC) made some tweaks to the three maps it sent out for the final round of public comments earlier this month. That was good news […]
Michigan’s October 2021 jobless rates remained higher than those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on Wednesday’s monthly numbers released by the Department of Management and Budget (DTMB). The state’s October […]
