Bridge Michigan explored the public cost of allowing automakers to leave polluted plants behind while they seek state incentives to build new ones. The Michigan Legislature is now poised to introduce bills to hold industry more accountable.
‘At least it wasn’t a drunkfest,’ Michigan GOP chair Kristina Karamo says of money-losing Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Party needed loan to pay actor Jim Caviezel for a keynote address.
Worries about Chinese expansions into the U.S. food supply prompt legislation to bar 'adversarial entities' from buying farms in Michigan. Records show Chinese companies don't own much land, but sponsor says 'China will do whatever it takes to get a foot in the door.'
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Democrats, who became the majority this year, have long said they favored opening up the state’s executive and legislative branches to the open record law. It’s nearly November and they’ve taken no action.
Republicans canvassers blocked a citizen ballot proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour because organizers changed a definition in the petition before collecting an estimated 360,309 voter signatures.
Michigan’s Democratic-led Senate votes to repeal a series of abortion restrictions previously enacted by Republicans. But the bills could face a roadblock in the Democratic-led House.