The Senate's changes to the minimum wage initiative not only keeps the tip credit system around, but unchains any future increases after 2030 from inflationary increases, meaning the minimum wage would stay frozen at $12 …
Nearly 250,000 Michigan "Flow-Through" business organized as S Corporations or partnerships could claim state income tax exemptions under legislation that the Senate unanimously passed Thursday.
The bird state Capitol folks are thinking about these days isn't turkey. It's lame duck, that special time when difficult policies are shoved through under the cover of Yule-time joy and out-going legislators feeling free to …
Supporters of the new $12 minimum wage law and paid sick leave policy created through the legislatively passed citizens initiatives earlier this year said any changes made to either in lame duck would be "gutting" …
A bill to preserve the tip credit for servers, as well as another bill amending the paid sick leave initiative, were both introduced in the Senate last week.
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Daniel Loepp are among those named to Gov.-elect Gretchen Whitmer’s transition team, it was announced Wednesday.
The General election is finally upon us and it is obvious that 2018 is shaping up to be a very competitive mid-term election here in Michigan.
What does Michigan's law say about worker voter protection?
What is going on in Oakland County? The home of Brooks Patterson is either Democrats' ground zero for a dreamed takeback of the state Senate or their worst Election Day nightmare, one that validates the cultish-like …
It's two weeks until Election Day and, as in past elections, the field seems to be spreading. Democrats are anxious to hit on a race that's going to help get them the nine seats needed …
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, …
(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 …
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.
If elected, Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Schuette said Michigan will have a policy in which there's no "discrimination of anybody whether it's on race, color, creed, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, you name it."
The self-proclaimed leading national organization against legalizing recreational marijuana is putting a "six-figure investment" in defeating Proposal 1 this fall as new polling from Target Insyght, commissioned by MIRS and Governmental Consulting Services Inc. (GCSI) show the …
Voters are supporting the redistricting reform ballot question, Proposal 2, at less than 50 percent when voters read the actual ballot language and asked to indicate how they'd vote, according to new polling commissioned by MIRS and …