LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Thursday picked up support from a majority of both his caucus and minority Democrats to repeal the current minimum wage law and replace it with a measure that would gradually increase the minimum wage to $9.20 an hour by January 1, 2017, and tie to inflation going
LANSING - More than 237,000 people have signed up for health-care coverage under the state's expanded Medicaid eligibility in the first six weeks of the program, officials have indicated. According to the Healthy Michigan webpage, as of late Monday, there were 237,329 persons signed up for the program. Healthy Michigan is the name of the
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville has introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage to $8.15 an hour by September 1, 2014, but do so in a way that could negate a ballot proposal seeking a much bigger increase. ?The majority leader is introducing it to open up the discussion about minimum
LANSING - The much-anticipated 11-bill package defining the state?s role in resolving the Detroit bankruptcy was submitted for introduction late this afternoon with a call for the state to provide $194.8 million from its Budget Stabilization Fund that would then be repaid through tobacco settlement dollars. Under the legislation, a seven-member commission would be established
WASHINGTON DC - Wednesday's vote in the U.S. Senate to block opening debate on legislation raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour saw Michigan's candidates for the U.S. Senate on opposite sides with Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters favoring the increase and Republican Terri Land saying the measure goes too far. On a
LANSING - A package of bills that would change both how transportation agencies in the state get funds and how they use them saw more discussions Tuesday in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The key funding part of the package (HB 5477 ) would repeal the current fuel taxes and replace them with a
LANSING - A poll conducted for a conservative organization shows U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, the Democratic senatorial candidate, at 46 percent to 41 percent for Republican candidate Terri Land while Republican Governor Rick Snyder's lead over Democratic challenger Mark Schauer was within the margin of error. In the governor's race, Snyder had 45 percent to
EAST LANSING - Michigan could lead the nation in economic growth if it can be the first state to properly connect education and careers, Governor Rick Snyder said on opening the 19th Governor's Education Summit on Thursday. The event, Snyder's fourth, was themed "Collaboration, Creation, Connection," promoting the idea that all levels of education and
LANSING - The severity of damage to Michigan's roads from the harsh winter has reduced the urgency to pursue tax relief this year, Governor Rick Snyder said Wednesday. Earlier this year, Snyder proposed a partial restoration of the reduction to the Homestead Property Tax Credit that started in the 2012 tax year. The change would
LANSING - Immigrants are starting businesses in Michigan at a rate three times that of native-born residents, and are three times as likely to major in technical fields in college as are native-born students, which is just part of the reason the state is making a major push to encourage immigration to Michigan, officials said