ANN ARBOR - Senate Fiscal Agency Director Gary Olson said Friday that Governor-elect Rick Snyder and the incoming Legislature will have to make the massive, painful and necessary structural changes that are overdue for state government. Olson, who is retiring at the end of the year after two decades at the helm of the fiscal
LANSING - It looks like residents will get the opportunity to purchase liquor before noon on Sunday after all now that the Legislature and Governor Jennifer Granholm have resolved their differences on the issue that led Granholm to veto an earlier version of the legislation. The bill (HB 6224 ), which cleared the Senate on
LANSING - Rep. James Bolger (R-Marshall) and Rep. Richard Hammel (D-Mount Morris Twp.) were chosen by their respective caucuses on Tuesday to lead the chamber next term and both emphasized the need to work together to solve Michigan's challenges. Bolger's unopposed ascent to House speaker comes after serving in his first term of office and
LANSING ? Michigan Senate Majority Leader-elect Randy Richardville voiced openness Tuesday to the linchpin of Governor-elect Rick Snyder's economic strategy, replacing the Michigan Business Tax with a 6 percent corporate income tax, but would not promise to support it sight unseen. "We'll certainly look at that," he said. "We have to take a look at
LANSING ? Gov.-elect Rick Snyder said he doesn't want to move his family from Ann Arbor to the governor?s official residence in Lansing until his youngest daughter, Kelsey, finishes high school. Snyder told the Detroit News he will instead commute to Lansing after he is sworn in Jan. 1. Kelsey is a freshman this year
ABOARD THE SNYDER CAMPAIGN BUS - Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder has had a message for groups and organizations representing interests in Lansing as he has met with them in recent months about his expectations should he become the state's next governor. "Do not walk in my office and ask for funding," Snyder said in
LANSING - With Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder consistently hammering Democratic opponent Virg Bernero in polls, the Republican Party is looking for his win in the governor's race to help it take back control of the House, pad its majority in the Senate and sweep competitive races in the U.S. House, said Republican Party Chair
LANSING - A new poll appears to refute suggestions that U.S. Rep. John Dingell is in imminent danger of losing re-election. In the 3rd District around Grand Rapids, the poll showed Justin Amash leading, but the 46-37 split gives him less than a majority and puts Democrat Pat Miles inside the margin of error for
DETROIT ? On October 5, Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a tax amnesty program that provides for a 45-day period beginning May 15, 2011, through June 30, 2011, for taxes administered by the Michigan Department of Treasury due before January 1, 2010. During the Michigan Amnesty period, the Department may waive criminal and civil penalties for
MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder said Friday that if he wins the governorship, he will resign the one or two corporate boards on which he now sits and transfer his ownership of his businesses to others. "I've got a new day job then," Snyder said of why he would resign his corporate