The Department of Treasury and the Governor could appoint a three-person panel to hammer out an arrangement with a financially struggling local government to ensure that its retiree pension and health care obligations are paid, …
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and House Speaker Tom Leonard (R-DeWitt), after the defeat of their no fault package last week, indicated that they will wait for another chance, perhaps next year.
Two Oakland County communities passed measures Tuesday requiring that a criminal conviction be a prerequisite before police can forfeit property.
The head of the paid sick leave ballot proposal said her campaign is a grassroots one, but it drew funding from just three sources on its latest campaign finance report.
Lawmakers mandated additional savings from the pending no-fault auto insurance reform Thursday before voting to send HB 5013 out of the House Insurance Committee to the floor, where the measure could be taken up as …
The redistricting group Voters Not Politicians (VNP) claims to have collected nearly 300,000 signatures in two months' time, but campaign finance reports released Wednesday show the group still hasn't paid any signature gathering firms.
Legislation designed to clean up the inner workings of the maligned Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) emerged from a bipartisan workgroup Thursday.
The Michigan Supreme Court decided not to hear Menards Inc.'s appeal challenging a lower court's rejection of the Tax Tribunal's “dark stores” method when assessing the big box store's Escanaba property.
Eleven bills of an alternative no-fault auto insurance reform package, sponsored by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers led by Rep. Ben Frederick (R-Owosso), were introduced this week.
Menards Inc.'s attorney asked the Michigan Supreme Court to find the Court of Appeals erred when it overturned a Tax Tribunal's decision that it owed less taxes than the city of Escanaba levied.
She's admittedly been out of school for some years, but what Rep. Kathy Crawford (R-Novi) is seeing in her Oakland County schools isn't all that different from what was taking place decades before.
A bill primarily aimed at preventing local governments from imposing taxes on soda or other sweetened beverages cleared the Senate Wednesday, 31-5, while a second bill that does the same thing passed a House committee.
(AUBURN HILLS) -- Vice President Mike Pence told a small group of business owners Thursday about the principles the President Donald Trump administration will be using as part of its "across-the-board" tax cut plan. Calling it "a middle-class miracle," Pence …
Some are losing their inheritance as a result of abuses in the public administrator process within the Estates and Protected Individuals Code, said Rep. Jim Runestad (R-White Lake) Tuesday. "So the abuses have to stop," …
Gov. Rick Snyder didn't waste much time signing legislation Wednesday that would codify how the state already oversees political SuperPACs spawned from the 2010 Citizens United court ruling.
The top stories from the 2017 Michigan Republican Party Mackinac Leadership Conference.
Attorney General Bill Schuette launched his gubernatorial bid Tuesday evening with the pledge of making Michigan a "growth state, paycheck state and jobs state."
