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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 …

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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 …

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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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May 6, 2025