Michigan’s rural essential air service airports and the airlines that serve them say flights will continue even if funding expires in early November. An extended shutdown could change things.
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Citizens cannot do their job of running their government if they don’t know what their public servants are doing.
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Passenger trains to return to Michigan Central station in Detroit by 2028
The transit hub would be built across the street on land owned by Ford Motor Co. Riders who travel to and from Canada would go through a border checkpoint in Windsor.
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Short-staffed, untrained, many Michigan townships struggle to control finances
Many rural townships get slammed by their auditors for failing to implement proper controls over their finances.
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Michigan’s bipartisan budget deal aims to ‘protect’ Medicaid. Here’s how
Michigan is seeking to avoid steep losses in federal funding for Medicaid by changing an insurance provider tax. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says a new state budget will ‘protect access to health care for millions.’
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Road funding 101: What to know about Michigan’s $2B deal
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday celebrated the state’s new bipartisan road funding deal, which is historic in scope but still short of earlier targets. See what roads will get fixed, and which taxes will go up, as a result.
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Michigan taxes on tips, overtime, Social Security to end for three years
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law an exemption on income taxes for tips, overtime and social security income this week. The tax cut will be in place from 2026 through 2028.
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Michigan Marijuana group sues to block new tax central to road funding deal
An industry group wants to block implementation of a 24% wholesale tax that is central to lawmaker’s $2 billion road funding plan.
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Officials: West Michigan sewer expansion to spur growth, but they’re $7M short
The need for a redesigned pump station and inflation drove up the price tag for the project that already got $60 million from the state.
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Michigan budget takes IT from Jocelyn Benson after transparency portal flop
Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson will lose oversight of IT systems under a budget provision championed by House Republicans. ‘Benson has failed miserably with these public websites,’ said one lawmaker.
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Gretchen Whitmer signs $81B Michigan budget, roads deal. What to know
Michigan’s new budget has more money for roads, more taxes on pot and some new spending cuts. What to know about the $81B spending law.