LANSING - Clearing key legislation out of the Michigan House Energy Policy Committee last week was important to give the full House enough time with the bills so when the chamber returns from its Thanksgiving break, members will possibly be ready to vote, Rep. Aric Nesbitt, the committee chair, said Friday. The committee, last week, after
LANSING - Switch, a Nevada-based data storage center with international appeal, may be finding a place to locate at least a portion of its business on the west side of the state, and it may have help from the Michigan Legislature to do so. Six bills, three in the Michigan House and three in the
LANSING – Michigan has about $25 million leftover in federal funding to update its voting equipment from when it received federal funding through the Helping America Vote Act passed in 2002, but the state still needs another potentially $35 million to get its voting equipment ready for the November 2018 general election when current systems
LANSING - The Michigan Department of State will be unable to implement the vehicle registration fee changes Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law this week to raise funding for roads unless Hewlett Packard turns over the source code for the troubled information technology project to upgrade secretary of state online services, officials say. Attorneys for the
LANSING - Michigan revenues from its primary taxes fell slightly short in October, according to figures released Tuesday by the Senate Fiscal Agency, and ended the 2014-15 fiscal year $156 million short of estimates. While the initial estimate of $21.61 billion during the 2014-15 fiscal year is still a 3.1 percent increase from 2013-14, it
LANSING - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman announced Tuesday that the agency would conduct an audit of the Department of Environmental Quality drinking water program in response to the Flint drinking water crisis. The region will examine the department's implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act and related rules on
LANSING - It was a quick day in the Senate for one of the first bills the chamber introduced this year to eliminate straight-ticket voting, as it cleared a Senate committee Tuesday morning and the full chamber by the evening. The bill, SB 13, would eliminate the ability for voters to vote for all the candidates
LANSING - Michigan's gas tax revenues were down more than $120 Million to $820.6 million in fiscal year 2013-14 since their peak more than a decade before, a report by the Department of Treasury shows. During the same time frame, total gasoline usage is down more than 600,000 gallons annually. What is now the state's
LANSING – Can’t make it to Lansing to tour the capitol building. No worries. The Michigan State Capitol Commission has you covered with a Virtual Tour. The tour enables users to traverse the halls of the Capitol, get a peek inside the House and Senate chambers and even learn about the many portraits and other
LANSING - As has been the case with numerous other utilities that had imposed a surcharge upon their customers to pay for their renewable energy investments as mandated by the 2008 energy law, the Public Service Commission on Thursday approved a settlement agreement amending DTE Electric Company's renewable energy plan to eliminate the utility's energy
