LANSING - Sen. Roger Kahn on Wednesday presented a Senate Medicaid workgroup proposal that keeps critical components of the House bill to expand and reform Medicaid while ensuring the reforms remain even if federal waivers are not granted or the Affordable Care Act is repealed. "Besides the ability to opt-out, it was important that we
LANSING ? Michigan House Speaker Jase Bolger said Thursday that an August 27 vote on Medicaid expansion would provide just enough time for the federal government to approve waivers requested in the legislation. Bolger (R-Marshall), in an interview with Gongwer News Service, said it's not up to him to say if the Senate should vote
LANSING - Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville on Wednesday said he believes it is probable that the Senate Medicaid workgroup will have a proposal ready by mid-week next week, and the full chamber would vote on the proposal in late August. "My guess is that if things come out of committee, and it's possible that
LANSING - The revelation that Iowa-based Midwest Living magazine writes the state's Pure Michigan Travel Guide prompted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer to question why Governor Rick Snyder's administration did not pick a Michigan-based company for the job. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported Saturday that Des Moines, Iowa-based Midwest Living publishes the guide, which is
LANSING ? Michigan House Democrats announced legislation on Thursday that would add regulations to horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to require more transparency from companies do fracking for natural gas. The legislation would require the disclosure of chemicals used in the fracking process and report the water used when it exceeds 100,000 gallons; allow communities
LANSING - Overall tax collections were approximately $99.3 million above the level expected by the Senate Fiscal Agency for the month of June based on its May consensus revenue estimates, a monthly revenue report concluded on Wednesday, but the $1.8 billion total collected taxes for the General Fund and School Aid Fund were down about
LANSING - Over two decades, before they were ended beginning in 2012, state tax credits for donations made to community foundations, homeless shelters and food banks totaled $341 million, a report from the Department of Treasury shows. In 2011, the last year the credits were applied, the credits for those donations to foundations, shelters and
LANSING - Two separate surveys, one of the general public in Michigan and a second of local officials in Michigan, find that both populations tend to trust local governments the most and the federal government the least. But the survey of local officials found they trust local government far more than does the public, and
LANSING - The pressure is on for the six-member Senate work group to discuss - and resolve - the debate surrounding Medicaid expansion, but Sen. Roger Kahn, the leader of the work group, said he believes the varying individuals and backgrounds in the group are up to the task. "In our country, there is an
GRAND RAPIDS - Governor Rick Snyder on Tuesday continued to advocate for Michiganders to call their senators and tell them to take a vote on the House-passed Medicaid reform bill as soon as they can, adding that the later Michigan waits to do so the worse off it will be when the federal Patient Protection