Governor Whitmer has joined seven other states in proposing a higher salary level test for job exemption status. Currently Michigan’s exempt salary level test for executive, professional, and administrative positions is only $250/week or $13,000/year.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Thursday she'd pursue administrative rules to expand how many Michigan workers would automatically qualify to receive overtime pay.
The last of what's left of Pure Michigan funding was approved by the Michigan Strategic Fund (MSF) Board Tuesday for disbursement to the state's travel marketing contractors.
Small businesses create close to 50% of the jobs in Michigan's economy, according to Rep. Tommy Brann (R-Wyoming), so he's teamed up with three other lawmakers to propose a four-bill package that would create an Office …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's ban on flavored vaping products is no more -- at least for now -- after a Court of Claims judge blocked the state enforcing the emergency rules.
A coalition of roughly a dozen traditionally progressive groups led by Planned Parenthood of Michigan and the Michigan Nurses Association kicked off its public awareness campaign on lobbying reform Wednesday with a visual pointing out …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is including funding for secondary road patrol grants to mostly rural counties, veteran service grants, a "critical access" hospital rate increase and $1 million for the autism navigator program as part of her …
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed 147 line-items, including $375 million in one-time road funding and $128 million from the School Aid budget, before signing all 16 state budgets last Monday, according to a press release issued by …
How local governments decide who can operate medical pot shops in their jurisdictions has been described as a "nightmare" that has spurred litigation, and some believe it's only going to get worse once the state's …
Customers who choose a lower level of personal injury protection (PIP) coverage in their auto insurance will have to sign a form confirming their choice every time they renew under the new auto insurance law …
The House and Senate passed 15 Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 department budgets Sept. 24 with no direct input from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is expected to line-item veto large portions of the spending documents by …
The state hasn't even begun accepting recreational marijuana business licenses, but nearly half of Michigan's communities have already opted out of having them in their boundaries.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's emergency rules banning flavored e-cigarettes were released Wednesday without a ban on "flavored alternative nicotine" products, which had been in an earlier rules draft.
Republican-dominated conference committees Thursday passed out slender spending increases for pubic K-12 schools, community colleges and universities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 amid Democratic concerns that R's were prioritizing roads ahead of school children.
Lawmakers want to expand Michigan's expungement laws in a way they say will give hundreds of thousands of residents with old, low-level criminal convictions a clean record.
House and Senate Republican leadership gave their appropriations subcommittee chairs their final targeted spending amounts Thursday and instructed them to begin pushing out conference committee budgets this week, MIRS has learned.
Yesterday State Representative Tommy Brann (R-Wyoming), a small business owner himself, dropped off the long-awaited bi-partisan legislative package focused on small business growth called Entrepreneurship Led Economic Development (E-LED).
Republican legislative leaders submitted a menu of additional road-funding options to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Thursday, some she'd seen before like bonding against the teacher retirement system. Some she had not.