High-level meetings over next year's budget were postponed indefinitely Thursday after Senate Majority Leader Arlan MEEKHOF (R-West Olive) and House Speaker Tom LEONARD (R-DeWitt) told Gov. Rick SNYDER they want to close the teacher pension …
Members of Michigan's Cyber Civilian Corp are being described as the "volunteer firemen" of the computer security world.
Convicts leaving incarceration often have a difficult time re-entering the working world because, according to one survey, 65 percent of employers would never consider hiring someone with a felony record.
With the Senate kicking out its Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 plan, both chambers are expected to take the next couple days to non-concur in each other's spending plans. That will send matters to 16 individual …
The coalition leading the latest marijuana legalization effort finalized its ballot language today, with the final product bearing several parallels to the regulatory structure set up for medical marijuana.
Physicians wouldn't be able to prescribe a schedule 2, 3, 4 or 5 drug without running a report on the patient through the Michigan Automated Prescription System, or MAPS, to check for opioid abuse, under SB …
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.
