The last two times the Democrats pressed hard for a minimum wage hike, legislative Republicans ended up passing an increase rather than risk a ballot proposal that they viewed would have been tougher on their …
The Senate Finance Committee began taking testimony Thursday on what the state might do to dramatically change course and attract more people and businesses.
Michigan collected more property taxes in 2016 than it did in 2015, the 15th time in the last 20 years that's occurred, which has James HOHMAN of the Mackinac Center questioning whether local governments are truly being …
The address in a cryptic Facebook post advertising "MMMP CARDS" leads me, late one Sunday night, to the darkened storefront of an appliance wholesaler in North Lansing.
The health insurance portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "has not worked," Gov. Rick Snyder said Tuesday, noting that access is being reduced and insurance rates are going up because of the federal law.
A trio of business association officials Tuesday offered up their prescription for lowering health care costs to the House Health Policy Committee in the face of a presumed repeal and replace of the federal Affordable …
A measure to cut the 4.25 percent income tax to 3.9 percent as long as there's $1 billion in the rainy day fund failed to get the 55 votes needed for passage. The bill fell …
It's almost a foregone conclusion that Michigan will lose yet another congressional seat after the 2020 U.S. Census, which sparks the natural question -- which district will map makers most likely eliminate?
The income tax rollback measure breezed out of committee on Wednesday, but ran smack dab into the middle of a strong headwind on the House floor.
There's an empty 82,000-seat stadium in Pontiac and Mayor Deirdre Waterman can't do anything with it.
Gov. Rick Snyder rolled out a spending plan for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 that proposed no major spending cuts, no fee increases and no tax cuts.
Some 70 House members from both parties crammed into the Speaker's Library Wednesday afternoon to announce re-introduction of the House's FOIA reform package, coasting in on a presumed mandate from the 2016 election for a …
A vulnerable Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) computer system potentially exposed the names and social security numbers of as many as 1.87 million people, the state announced Friday.
Lt. Gov. Brian Calley signaled Friday that he wants to move on an ethics-related package that would include public officials disclosing potential conflicts of interest in government and more access to public information.
Behind the scenes, Republicans are looking high and low for a top-tier candidate to challenge U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) in 2018. And one may just fall right into their lap.
House Republican leadership rolled out a committee assignment list for 2017-18 that included 11 freshman chairs in both the policy and appropriations subcommittee arenas, a striking number considering a pair of third-term Republicans and six …
Michigan's bond rating remains a notch below the highest rating a state can earn, and that isn't likely to change soon, according to Dan SEYMOUR of Moody's.