LANSING - Business Leaders for Michigan announced Thursday it is producing a study intended to boost K-12 school performance in the state. The organization said it has supported school reforms in the past, but this is the first time it has created a project to identify specific actions that could affect student outcomes. PricewaterhouseCoopers will
LANSING - Legislative Democrats said Thursday they are introducing legislation to more than triple the percentage of electricity utilities generate from renewable sources to 50 percent by 2035, as well as double the energy efficiency standard to 2 percent starting in 2022. The move comes months after the Legislature passed, and Governor Rick Snyder signed,
LANSING - Consumers Energy can speed up construction a wind turbine project by three years in Tuscola County following a ruling issued Thursday by the Public Service Commission. Last year the PSC allowed Consumers to buy 19 wind turbines for its Cross Winds Energy Park II in Tuscola County and said the utility could have an
LANSING - Michigan drivers are one step closer to being able to use electronic proofs of registration during traffic stops following Michigan Senate action Thursday. The bill, HB 4013, passed the chamber by a 38-0 vote and heads to Governor Rick Snyder's desk. The bill would allow motorists to show an electronic copy or digital
MACKINAC ISLAND - Governor Rick Snyder, Sen. Jim Stamas and several top business leaders called on the House on Thursday to act on legislation that would set up a new tax incentive to attract large businesses bringing new jobs to the state, warning without passage in the next month, the state would miss on some
LANSING - A joint resolution extending Michigan's Constitution's prohibition against unreasonable government search and seizures to electronic data and communications unanimously cleared the House. The amendment, HJR C, passed 107-0, easily clearing the two-thirds majority requirement. If it passes the Senate, also with a two-thirds minimum vote, it will go on the ballot in 2018.
LANSING - A report issued Wednesday by the AFL-CIO shows that chief executives for Michigan companies made 391 times the average pay for non-supervisory staff in 2016. The Executive PayWatch Report showed the average compensation for CEOs of Michigan S&P 500 companies was $14.71 million last year, compare $37,600 for production and other non-supervisory staff.
LANSING - The Michigan Senate saw little controversy in moving its final budget bills Thursday outside of Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. calling for the savings from the other budgets being used for road construction. But, in the end, the most Senate opposition came on the higher education budget (SB 138), which passed 22-15, and the
WASHINGTON DC - All nine Republicans in Michigan's U.S. House delegation voted for the federal health care bill that would repeal many of the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act like the penalty tax for those without coverage, reduce taxes on high-income earners and dramatically alter Medicaid coverage for the poor with
LANSING - All of the state's medical marijuana licensing functions are now consolidated in the Bureau of Medical Marihuana Regulation in the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the administration announced Thursday. Under the reorganization, the new bureau will hold the Michigan Medical Marihuana Program patient and caregiver registry as well as licensing medical marijuana
