The state spent $148,000 on a racial equity group to offer advice on how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds. But after issuing recommendations, the group said it was ‘silenced.’
Now that Michigan’s winter is in full effect and snow storms and other severe weather events become more common, superintendents have to consider a number of things before canceling school.
The founder of a company that uses drones to recover deer carcasses that hunters cannot find says that Michigan’s prohibition of the practice violates his First Amendment rights. The suit questions one of the core principles of hunting and fishing in the United States, some experts say.
Michigan Republicans met behind closed doors on Saturday, voting to keep Kristina Karamo as state party chair and strike back against critics who tried to oust her, according to her administration.
Michigan lawmakers made sweeping changes to Michigan energy laws last fall. But plenty of items missed the cut, from community solar to finding solutions for Michigan’s outage-prone power grid.
The state’s top financial experts and economic forecasters had mostly good news for Michigan heading into the new year, predicting a $418 million surplus for the current fiscal year and a relatively stable economy.
