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$250M In Federal Funds Moved To UI Trust Fund Under Bill

Michigan would kick $250 million into the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund as a way to make sure businesses aren’t paying for reported fraud coming out of the unemployment agency during […]

January 18, 2022

HFA Has State Up $2.6B For Last Year, $1.7B For This Year

State government’s flush times don’t appear to be ending any time soon. The Governor and legislative leaders can expect $2.6 billion more than expected for the fiscal year that ended […]

January 18, 2022

Supreme Court Stops Biden Admin’s Vaccination-or-Testing Requirements On Employers

The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday stopped the President Joe Biden administration’s vaccination-or-testing requirement on the nation’s largest employers. The court allowed, however, the administration’s mandate for most health care workers at federally funded health […]

January 11, 2022

State Sets New Record For Daily Case Average, 27,346 New COVID-19 Cases

Michigan broke another COVID-19 record during this current surge of cases, obtaining the highest daily average of 12,680 new cases over the last seven days. Wednesday, Michigan reported 27,346 new […]

January 11, 2022

Former, Current Black Lawmakers, Others Plan Challenge To Redistricting Maps

A group of current and former Black state legislators announced Monday their lawsuit challenging the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission’s (MICRC) newly adopted maps. The suit, which attorney Nabih Ayad filed late […]

January 4, 2022

New Congressional Maps Set Up Incumbent Primary Face-Offs

When the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC) completed its work Tuesday with the Chestnut Congressional map being adopted, it quickly started a domino effect that pits several incumbents against […]

January 4, 2022

Redistricting Commission Adopts Maps For Congress, Senate, House

After a year of sometimes rocky collaboration, questions about transparency, and plenty of public comments, the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission Tuesday (MICRC) approved Congressional, State Senate, and State House […]

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December 21, 2021

$75M Biz Property Tax Cut Passed As Part Of Economic Development Deal

The House and Senate sent to the Governor Tuesday evening a $75 million small business tax cut that emerged as a piece of the economic development deal reached Tuesday on […]

December 21, 2021

$1B Economic Development Deal Officially Landed

The House, Senate and Governor’s office finalized $1 billion in a new economic development fund Tuesday designed to lure large industrial projects to Michigan. The bills creating the funds that […]

December 14, 2021

Senate Passes Economic Development Plan, Dollar Signs Coming Up Next Week

The Senate approved its side of the massive economic development plan, which would produce new incentive programs in hopes that Michigan will be more ripe for large-scale business endeavors. “These […]

December 14, 2021

MI Earned Income Tax Credit Could Climb To 30%

A Sen. Wayne A. Schmidt (R-Traverse City) bill aiming to boost the state’s earned income tax credits (EITCs) by up to 30% of an individual’s federal EITC over several years received its first hearing Wednesday […]

December 7, 2021

Gov Dismisses Enbridge Suit Over Line 5

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Tuesday shifted the state’s legal strategy against Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline by voluntarily dismissing her 2020 lawsuit to focus on a separate, but similar, lawsuit filed in state […]

December 7, 2021

Whitmer, Legislature Beginning Budget Talks

House and Senate leaders are meeting with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office on how to spend what is now at least $15 billion in federal dollars and higher-than-expected state tax revenue before […]

November 30, 2021

State Senate Map Recap … Most Likely Scenarios

The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has six Senate maps it can choose among when it gets together next month to make its final pick for 2021-2031. However, the focus at […]

November 30, 2021

The Maps Hurt These State House Incumbents The Most

The Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (ICRC) made some tweaks to the three maps it sent out for the final round of public comments earlier this month. That was good news […]

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November 23, 2021

DTMB Shows Jobless Rates Still Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Numbers

Michigan’s October 2021 jobless rates remained higher than those prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, based on Wednesday’s monthly numbers released by the Department of Management and Budget (DTMB). The state’s October […]