LANSING - A once thought to be innocuous bill involving a fee dealerships charge auto manufacturers underwent a potentially significant change before clearing the Legislature, and that change appears designed to ensure the electric automaker Tesla would have to sell its vehicles in Michigan through franchise dealers instead of directly to customers as it is
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder appears to be solidifying a consistent lead over his Democratic opponent, Mark Schauer, in two polls that came out Tuesday showing a developing trend of Snyder leading Schauer with a percentage outside the margin of error. In both polls, one by Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group, and the second by the
LANSING - Republican hopes of finally winning a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan appear in serious danger of vanishing with a raft of new polls in the last week showing Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters opening up a sizeable lead over Republican Terri Land and the decision of the National Republican Senatorial Committee to pull
LANSING - U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, began deploying one of the major items in his arsenal Tuesday, calling out his Republican opponent, former Secretary of State Terri Land, for the troubled Business Application Modernization project that an audit lambasted Land's Department of State and the Department of Technology, Management and
LANSING - In the second poll in a week, Governor Rick Snyder is shown leading his Democratic opponent Mark Schauer by 6 percentage points. The poll, conducted by the Lansing firm of EPIC/MRA, also showed, however, that 8 percent of those polled would favor an unnamed third party candidate, and another 8 percent said they
LANSING - Online want ads showed a big increase in the state during August, up by 9.5 percent, figures by Michigan's Labor Market Information division. The increase reversed two months of decline in the ads, the report said, and was the second largest increase in online want ads this year. There were 174,920 online ads
LANSING - Michigan's overall economic competitiveness has improved at an "impressive rate," a study released Wednesday by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce showed, with the state jumping nine spots to be the 30th most competitive state in the union. The state saw improvements in all the factors the study measured, showing the biggest improvement in
LANSING - A poll released Wednesday showed Governor Rick Snyder up by 6 percentage points over his Democratic rival Mark Schauer, and GOP officials said the results show that Snyder's message that Michigan is coming back is resonating with the public. The poll also came out as the Michigan Republican Party hammered harder on the
LANSING - A televised town hall-style debate between Governor Rick Snyder and his Democratic rival Mark Schauer will be held on Sunday, October 12, meaning the candidates will face off at least once in a televised event during the 2014 campaign. The debate was announced late Monday, with a spokesperson for Schauer saying the event
LANSING - Bills that would allow terminally ill patients the right to try drugs that have only gone through the first phase of Food and Drug Administration testing were sent to the House floor on Tuesday by the House Health Policy Committee. SB 991 would create the Right to Try Act, allowing individuals with terminal