DETROIT - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a crowd of 1,500 on Monday that the city of Detroit is the "living, breathing," example of Hillary Clinton's failed economic agenda, and until his plan focusing on America is implemented, there will not be real change. Trump made an economic stump speech to the Detroit Economic
LANSING - The Michigan Agency for Energy announced support Wednesday of a plan by American Transmission Company that would eliminate certain payments for the White Pine electric generator in the Upper Peninsula. The announcement comes two days after a federal judge issued a proposal that Wisconsin Energy Corporation owed ratepayers some $17 million for running
LANSING - One of the great unknowns heading into the 2016 election, the first general election in more than a century without voters having the option to pick a party's slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot, has been removed for now with a federal judge slapping a preliminary injunction Thursday on
LANSING - Michigan's workers compensation changes aimed at reducing the prices paid for physician-dispensed prescriptions has largely been achieved, a study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute has shown, but the number of prescriptions dispensed is still more prevalent than expected. With data covering 15 months experience following the legal changes (Michigan's changes took effect
LANSING - Environmental groups and Democrats were quick Thursday to deride Gov. Rick Snyder’s choice of Heidi Grether to head the Department of Environmental Quality because of her background lobbying for BP America. Grether is currently deputy director of the Michigan Agency for Energy, where she led state efforts to comply with new federal carbon
LANSING - The sponsor of a bill that would have eliminated the share some cities pay toward state road projects in their jurisdictions fumed Friday at Governor Rick Snyder's decision to veto it and said he is considering options to revive the policy, including attempting to override Snyder's veto. The Department of Transportation had signaled
DETROIT - A Detroit U.S. district judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a newly enacted state law that bans companies from collecting employee donations for union campaign funds, but permits a firm to continue to collect donations for corporate campaign funds. Judge Linda Parker said the law, PA 269 of 2015, violates the First
DETROIT - Two new surveys on the presidential race show presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in Michigan. One survey, conducted by Ballotpedia with the firm Evolving Strategies, showed Clinton at 47 percent, Trump at 30 percent and Libertarian Gary Johnson at 14 percent. The survey
LANSING - Thanks to the use of videoconferencing technology to virtually transport prisoners into 780 courtrooms across the state, the Department of Corrections has saved $14.7 million since implementation in 2010, according to the Michigan Supreme Court. The Supreme Court announced savings are expected to grow from $4.3 million in fiscal year 2015, up to
LANSING - In 2015, just 5 percent of Michigan residents reported not having health insurance, research from the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation found. The findings, in a survey conducted from October to December 2015, showed a dramatic decline from the high of 14 percent of the population without coverage in 2012. The findings
