LANSING - House Speaker Jase Bolger and House Minority Leader Tim Greimel said on Tuesday a road improvement funding proposal is unlikely to happen. "I'm not hearing much hope," Bolger (R-Marshall) told reporters after House session. "We'll leave that to play out. I know people are continuing to work on it, and I'm not going
LANSING - After two tries, the Michigan Senate was able to pass legislation that would expand Medicaid coverage to some 470,000 people, but it could not garner the votes necessary for immediate effect, and there is no certainty on how or when it will do so going forward, a Senate spokesperson said on Wednesday. "We
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $3 million Michigan Community Revitalization Program incentive to Mid Towne Hospitality for a new hotel development in Grand Rapids. ?The construction of this hotel and mixed-use development will further revitalize the City of Grand Rapids and act as a catalyst for additional positive activity in the
DETROIT ? VernDale Products has received a $436,000 incentive from the Michigan Strategic Fund to add a second milk production facility in Detroit. ?VernDale Products? investment and expansion into a second major facility in the City of Detroit is a testament to the city?s geographic economic strengths and fertile ground for business growth and development,?
LANSING - After conducting a Women's Health and Economic Security Task Force during the summer, the Michigan House Democrats said at a news conference on Monday they will continue their work on policies designed to help women overcome hurdles in the work force and with health care access. Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D-Muskegon), who co-chaired the
DETROIT - The Pure Michigan campaign recently quietly posted a video on its YouTube page touting downtown Detroit, with another accompanying it in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and Southern Ontario markets, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation confirmed on Wednesday. One of the ads, "First Time Feeling," begins with a shot of group of rowers paddling
LANSING ? Detroit and Port Huron will split $1.2 million in incentives from the Michigan Community Revitalization Program for historic renovation projects. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. said the projects are expected to generate up to $7.7 million in new private investment. ?These projects will act as catalysts for viable residential neighborhoods by redeveloping obsolete
LANSING - A total of nearly $90 million, with $52.3 million going to Detroit, is being distributed to five cities in the state to help raze and remove blighted structures. The funds are designed to help fight crime, stabilize urban neighborhoods and preserve property values for homeowners in those areas. The funds are part of
LANSING - Michigan's Legislature has the constitutional authority to apply right-to-work rules to state workers, a divided panel of the Court of Appeals held on Thursday. The decision rejected the argument of the plaintiffs, which were state worker unions, that only the Civil Service Commission could constitutionally impose RTW standards on classified state workers. The
LANSING - In a decision state workers hailed as a major victory, the Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday held that a 2012 law requiring workers to pay 4 percent of their pay into their pension system violated the constitutional provisions on classified employee compensation. The decision, in Michigan Coalition of State Employee Unions v.