LANSING - The Michigan House approved a package of bills by huge margins on Thursday allowing $194.8 million from the Budget Stabilization Fund to go toward the "Grand Bargain" designed to get Detroit out of bankruptcy and alleviate cuts to pensioners. Representatives were so supportive of the package that the chamber erupted in applause after
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP ? AvaSure, using a $550,000 Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant, is expanding its facility in Plainfield Township. The project will generate a total capital investment of $1.9 million and create 110 jobs. ?Michigan?s healthcare industry is growing and recognized across the country, and AvaSure?s decision to expand here underscores Michigan?s business-friendly environment
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville unveiled Wednesday a major change to one transportation bill on Wednesday that would gradually increase the new percentage tax on gasoline starting at 9.5 percent on January 1, 2015, but Senate Democrats seem less-than-pleased for now. The change to HB 5477 , which would repeal current fuel taxes
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