The state budget office is looking to scale back the Fiscal Years (FY) 2016 and 2017 budgets a combined $460 million through the current budget-crafting process in response to revenue estimates approved by state economic …
Legislation that would bar local units of government from banning or imposing a fee on plastic bags used by retailers passed the Senate today.
An effort to change verification of older signatures collected on ballot initiatives -- favored by a marijuana legalization and anti-fracking campaign -- failed today when the Board of State Canvassers (BSC) deadlocked on votes to …
A jacketless President Barack OBAMA told 1,000 Flint residents today to be proactive about the future in the midst of the city's current water crisis.
After 16 hours on the floor, four Republican caucuses and essentially two sessions, the House dragged its Detroit Public Schools (DPS) reform plan into passage at 4:28 a.m. As expected, the package passed with zero …
Dozens of state House primaries formally kicked off a week ago Friday after the withdrawal deadline came and went this afternoon.
The House passed its $38.8 billion "Big Bus" omnibus budget bill, 76-32, with 16 Democrats giving the budget a thumbs up. Two Republicans, Reps. Ray Franz (R-Onekama) and Lana Theis (R-Brighton), voted against the package.
House Democrats have a better shot of winning back control of the Michigan House this year than they do in 2018 or 2020, barring the unforeseen, said Michigan Campaign Finance Network (MCFN) executive director Craig MAUGER, …
Lawmakers' plans to move the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget to the Governor's desk by June 1 are on track after both chambers kicked their respective spending plans out of their appropriations committees to the …
Members of Gov. Rick Snyder's appointed Flint water crisis task force reiterated their scathing critiques of the administration Tuesday, telling lawmakers their findings showed flaws in the state water office's culture and the emergency manager law.
The feds granted additional Medicaid coverage for Flint children up to age 21 and pregnant women in a waiver, but it's going to cost the state some coin.
The state may require businesses big and small to update their phone systems by the end of the year so 9-1-1 operators can be better pinpoint an emergency.
The former lab supervisor in Flint's water treatment department told a special legislative committee Tuesday that he assumed corrosion control would be necessary when the city switched from treated lake water to Flint River water, …
The task force appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to investigate the Flint water crisis spared none of the governmental actors -- federal, state or local -- from some responsibility for the crisis in a biting …
Both chambers Thursday passed a modified version of the House proposal to use $48.7 million left over in the state's tobacco settlement fund to keep Detroit Public Schools (DPS) open for the rest of the …
The House voted Thursday to supply Detroit Public Schools (DPS) with $48.7 million in leftover tobacco settlement revenue, money needed to keep the doors open at the city's public schools through the remainder of the …
Partisan battle lines over who deserves the most blame for the Flint water crisis deepened Thursday during the third Congressional oversight hearing on Flint that featured Gov. Rick Snyder on the witness stand
The full Senate will not take up a Detroit Public Schools (DPS) reform package next Tuesday and it's not clear if the Government Operations Committee will tackle the issue either, a Senate Republican source told …