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Average auto insurance rates went up $200 per Colorado resident the year after the state legalized recreational marijuana and other states saw a 10 to 16 percent increase the year after they legalized pot, too, according to an anti-legal pot advocacy group.

(GRAND RAPIDS) - Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer verbally battered each other in Friday's first general election gubernatorial debate, with familiar charges of the Democrat's alleged "extreme agenda" and the Republican's perceived tendency of only doing his job when the "cameras are rolling."

Two of Michigan's leading small business organizations announced the creation of a new health insurance program, known as an Association Health Plan (AHP), that they say could actually lower rates for small businesses.

Marijuana use among teenagers did not increase the year after the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize recreational marijuana, according to fact sheets supplied by the health departments of both states.

Sen. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake), the likely next Senate Majority Leader if Republicans maintain control, has heard the bleak forecasts about Democrats possibly riding a blue wave into majority this November. He's not buying it.