AG Given OK to Proceed with Taint Team to Review MEDC Docs
(FARMINGTON HILLS) – A judge on Tuesday agreed with the Attorney General's use of a taint team to review documents seized...
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July 8, 2025
July 8, 2025
Legislature Fails to Pass K-12 Budget by Statutory Deadline
As the sun set on the July 1 statutory deadline, no budget bills passed the Legislature and...
July 1, 2025
Big 3 Meet But No White Smoke On K-12 Budget
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) and Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) jumped into a closed-door meeting in the Governor's Capitol ceremonial office for about an hour Thursday as the prospects of reaching a deal …
July 1, 2025
Tax Increase For Rich Petition Fight Ends In Draw At Canvassers
The Board of Canvassers approved a 100-word summary that identified a petition to fund schools with a 5 percent tax increase for the rich but failed to approve the form because of time.
June 24, 2025
Whitmer, Hall, Brinks Hold Round Robin Budget Talks; More Budget News
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) and Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) talked with each other Wednesday in pairs as the leaders started laying the groundwork for a compromise on the K-12 portion of the …
June 24, 2025
AG Raids MEDC Offices
The Attorney General’s office executed search warrants Wednesday on the downtown Lansing headquarters of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in what is presumably related to state grants managed by the quasi-governmental entity.
June 17, 2025
One Fair Wage Trying Again To Bring Tipped Workers To Minimum Wage
One Fair Wage is trying again to get tipped workers to earn at least the state's minimum wage – not a smaller “sub-minimum” wage that takes into account the tips they receive – based on …
June 17, 2025
K-12, Dept. of Ed, MiLEAP Budgets Clear House
Michigan public schools would receive a record $12,000 per student, funded in large part by the elimination of roughly 100 specific earmarks, under a Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 House Republican education budget that moved through …
June 10, 2025
Camilleri Pushes For New Fines, Fees & Caps For Hazardous Waste Facilities In MI
When it comes to dropping hazardous waste in one of Michigan's landfills, Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton) wants fees increased from $10 per ton to $25 beginning in 2026, as well as from 0.5 cents per …
June 10, 2025
Income Tax Surcharge for Schools Being Filed with Board of Canvassers
The Michigan Education Justice Coalition (MEJC) says it has filed petition language for a ballot proposal that would create...
June 3, 2025
State, Businesses See Urgent Need to Embrace Artificial Intelligence Training
(MACKINAC ISLAND) – A report released by the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) during the 2025 Mackinac Policy Conference showed the need for training a workforce to use artificial intelligence as industries change …
June 3, 2025
Brinks: No Genuine Conversation Between House, Senate On Road Funding
(MACKINAC ISLAND) – Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D-Grand Rapids) says what's lacking right now in terms of creating a new road funding plan "is a genuine conversation between the House and the Senate."
May 28, 2025
UIA Director Testifies In Oversight Subcommittee About $8-$15 Billion In Fraud During COVID-19
The House Oversight Subcommittee on State and Local Assistance Programs heard testimony from Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Director Jason Palmer over the agency’s handling of pandemic-era unemployment benefits, which resulted in an estimated $8 …
May 28, 2025
Whitmer’s Goal: Semiconductor Chip Plant By End Of 2026
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday called on Michigan to "work together" to become home to a semiconductor chip assembly plant – known as a fab, short for fabrication facility – which is the "most advanced …
May 20, 2025
New Revenue Numbers Put Senate Budget Short $313.4M
The state budget the Senate passed this week for the coming year is short $313.4 million based on cooler revenue estimates that came out of Friday's conference of fiscal forecasters, according to a Senate Fiscal Agency …
May 20, 2025
Cannabis Industry Reps Warn Against Higher Taxes For Road Funding
Creating a wholesale tax on marijuana to help fund the roads, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing, could jack up the price of pot to the point where users will hit the black market again, advocates told a …
May 13, 2025
RICE Generators Preserved Under House Passed Bill
Yoopers might have a different accent than us trolls who live under the bridge, but the difference in energy needs between the two peninsulas would be closer to reconciliation under bills preserving the Reciprocating Internal …
May 13, 2025
Senate Approps’ Budgets Feature New $372.5M Infrastructure Fund, Tariff Grants & More
Increasing public schools' foundation allowances to $10,008 per-pupil, a new $372.5 million "Community Infrastructure Fund" for local governments and $100 million in "economic relief" grants directly related to the White House's tariff policies were moved …
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