LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Friday released its annual report on video services competition, boasting that since the law regarding the reporting of video services competition (PA 480 of 2006) took effect, the number of municipalities reported having two or more video/cable providers offering service has more than doubled from 53 to 105.
LANSING - Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Friday that the Department of State will issue driver's licenses and state identification cards to young persons brought to the United States illegally but who are now part of the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The policy change is the result of recent federal guidance
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder filed a request Monday with the Supreme Court for a direct ruling on the constitutionality of the right-to-work law enacted last year. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, it would bypass the trial courts and Court of Appeals should the unions or others have filed litigation against
LANSING - Rep. Wayne Schmidt said creating a surcharge on tires for all vehicles, including bikes and off- road vehicles, could be one way to help raise the approximately $1.6 billion needed to fix Michigan's roads. Schmidt (R-Traverse City) told Gongwer News Service Wednesday that bikes and ORVs have their own lanes or wider shoulders
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder signaled he was willing to consider a major change in how Michigan awards its electoral votes in presidential elections by dropping the winner-take-all system for one based on the winner of each of the state's congressional districts. Snyder told The Associated Press for a story looking at Republican efforts to
LANSING - December tax collections were about $102.6 million above the level expected in the Senate Fiscal Agency's estimate for the month, with the bulk of additional revenue being accounted for with the Michigan Business Tax and Corporate Income Tax collections, the Senate Fiscal Agency's December 2012 revenue report showed on Wednesday. Michigan Business Tax
LANSING - Acting the day after his State of the State address, Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday signed Executive Order 2013-1, creating a new Department of Insurance and Financial Services. The order establishes that the new department will have authority over all insurance and banking issues in the state. In announcing the order, Snyder confirmed
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder announced eight expansions of government to only two limitations, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy said in its annual analysis of his State of the State Address. The worst offense the group found was the $1.2 billion he proposed in new transportation funding. "The governor and legislators rightly recognize that
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said Tuesday that he will offer a refined proposal on how to fill an estimated annual gap in the state's road funding needs of $1.6 billion during his State of the State address January 16. In the fall of 2011, Snyder unveiled a series of proposals designed to boost road
LANSING - Sen. Roger Kahn, who headed a task force on transportation near the end of 2012, said on Monday that Governor Rick Snyder is very likely to include transportation in his State of the State address, currently scheduled for January 16. "Conversations are going on with a view of toward fast-tracking this this time