LANSING - The Michigan Municipal League unveiled Thursday proposals to expand the sales tax to services and increase the sales tax by 1 cent, and dedicating the new revenue to local governments. "This plan presents bold policies to help Michigan cities recover from more than $5 billion in cuts that the state Legislature and governor
DETROIT - Governor Rick Snyder mostly evaded questions during three hours of sworn testimony under questioning from attorneys representing unions trying to convince a judge to deny Snyder and Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's efforts to let Detroit resolve its financial problems through bankruptcy. According to an unofficial transcript of the more than three-hour deposition,
LANSING - The Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee will take up a bill addressing the issue of cyberbullying, which Sen. Glenn Anderson said fills holes in the current anti-bullying law that even Governor Rick Snyder previously said needed to be addressed. Current law says that schools must have a policy about bullying and that the policy
ANN ARBOR - More local governments say their finances have improved, but the number is far short of a majority of local officials surveyed, say results released Tuesday by the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy. Survey results showed that 29 percent of the officials questioned said their communities were in better fiscal
LANSING - Consumers looking for health insurance in Michigan were able to go online to check out actual rates available through the health care exchanges, and officials reported considerable interest in the system. Tuesday also marked the first day that information about all the different plans and rates available in the state was available. Last
LANSING - Michigan businesses are invited to explore export opportunities at four Global Trade Days export events taking place in Troy, Lansing, Grand Rapids and Traverse City from Oct. 14-18. Global Trade Days will include presentations from country market specialists from Canada, Mexico, China, United Arab Emirates, and Brazil, who will speak about doing business
LANSING - In a decision that would draw hundreds of "likes" if posted on Facebook, the Michigan Senate has decided to open up its WiFi network to allow users access to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and drop most other restrictions that had severely limited what sites users could visit. The Senate has
LANSING ? The Michigan Strategic Fund has approved nearly $11 million in incentives to leverage $111.1 million in private investment that the state says will generate 333 new jobs. ?Today?s wide ranging new projects will all lead to greater economic opportunities for people across Michigan,? said Gov. Rick Snyder. ?These new investments demonstrate that Michigan
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder is getting an early start on his re-election campaign with the launch Wednesday of a two-week television advertising blitz touting his record in office. Snyder continued to insist Tuesday that he has not formally announced his candidacy for a second term in refusing to answer questions about the ad, which
LANSING - The other state universities have now benefited from the funds Wayne State University officials forfeited in June when they approved an 8.9 percent tuition increase. The WSU Board of Governors had acknowledged when it approved the increase that $534,700 in performance funding would be lost. Because WSU was the only school to break