A $39.4 billion state government spending plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 moved out of the House Appropriations Committee today with roughly $280 million left on the balance sheet and a majority Republican caucus eyeing …
The name of former state Supreme Court Justice Robert YOUNG, Jr., has been thrown in the mix, as a potential 2018 Republican challenger to U.S. Sen. Debbie STABENOW (D-Delta Twp.).
Senate Majority Leader Arlan MEEKHOF (R-West Olive) is planning to meet with staff and confer with his caucus next week about renewing a conversation about the now $29.1 billion and growing debt in the teachers' retirement program …
Over the objections of the state's tourism industry, the Senate Education Committee voted 4-1 Tuesday to report out SB 0271, legislation to end the state's 11-year-old prohibition against school districts starting their school years prior to …
Gov. Rick SNYDER is being put in a position with which he's gotten familiar -- appointing a Supreme Court justice. For the fourth time in his tenure, the Governor will pick a Supreme Court justice and he …
Rep. Dave MATUREN (R-Brady Twp.) announced Tuesday he's giving his "dark stores" legislation another try this session after a Senate committee sat on a similar bill last session and appears poised to do it again this term.
An exasperated Rep. Joe GRAVES (R-Linden) suggested Thursday the project management section of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget (DTMB) deserve a "hair cut" after officials failed to convince him they were making significant progress on …
As U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil GORSUCH undergoes his third day of confirmation hearings, three prominent suits that originated in Michigan are petitioning the nation's highest court to have their cases heard.
The last two times the Democrats pressed hard for a minimum wage hike, legislative Republicans ended up passing an increase rather than risk a ballot proposal that they viewed would have been tougher on their …
The Senate Finance Committee began taking testimony Thursday on what the state might do to dramatically change course and attract more people and businesses.
Michigan collected more property taxes in 2016 than it did in 2015, the 15th time in the last 20 years that's occurred, which has James HOHMAN of the Mackinac Center questioning whether local governments are truly being …
The address in a cryptic Facebook post advertising "MMMP CARDS" leads me, late one Sunday night, to the darkened storefront of an appliance wholesaler in North Lansing.
The health insurance portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "has not worked," Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday, noting that access is being reduced and insurance rates are going up because of the federal law.
A trio of business association officials Tuesday offered up their prescription for lowering health care costs to the House Health Policy Committee in the face of a presumed repeal and replace of the federal Affordable …
A measure to cut the 4.25 percent income tax to 3.9 percent as long as there's $1 billion in the rainy day fund failed to get the 55 votes needed for passage. The bill fell …
It's almost a foregone conclusion that Michigan will lose yet another congressional seat after the 2020 U.S. Census, which sparks the natural question -- which district will map makers most likely eliminate?
The income tax rollback measure breezed out of committee on Wednesday, but ran smack dab into the middle of a strong headwind on the House floor.
