LANSING - Proponents of a measure to allow embryonic stem cell research in Michigan will concentrate this week on the language voters will see on the ballot in November. The full retail campaign on the issue will begin next month, said former U.S. Rep. Joe Schwarz, the new chair of the campaign committee. Schwarz said
LANSING - New incentives are credited with helping the state attract a record $658 million in new investments by 15 companies whose projects are expected to add 6,853 jobs. Another five companies were given aid in Brownfield redevelopment projects. The Holland area, with three projects worth $48 million and 887 jobs, got the single largest
LANSING - Hinting broadly it may decide before Thursday's Board of State Canvassers' meeting, the Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday that there is nothing in the constitution that limits the size and scope of a constitutional amendment brought by the people while opponents to the Reform Michigan Government Now! proposal argued back that there
LANSING - With all 15 public universities approving their tuition rates for the 2008-09 school year, the House Fiscal Agency has conducted a preliminary analysis showing the average rate of tuition hike was 8 percent, although that does not factor in additional fees assessed for different courses. Resident undergraduate tuition rates, which are based on
LANSING - While observers statewide watched the results of the congressional primary in the 13th District and in legislative seats during Tuesday's primary election, a slaughter took place among local officials in key regions around the state. In almost unprecedented numbers township supervisors and sheriffs were voted out of office in the primary and the
LANSING - In Michigan, where House seats tend to be in very safe Democrat or Republican districts, winning the primary almost assures candidates they'll win the general election, so says political analyst Brendan Ringlever of BL Government Affairs. Listen to what's likely to happen in the primary on Aug. 5 in this special BL Government
WASHINGTON - President Bush and Republicans are angling to put the blame for high gasoline prices on the Democrats, backing Sen. Barack Obama into a corner where he can be seen as caring more about environmentalists than the millions of middle-class voters feeling the financial squeeze of $4 gas. On July 14, President Bush rescinded
LANSING - Ever since the House threw on tie-bar amendments to a campaign finance measure and augmentation to the state's no-fault auto insurance, legislation that would change the Michigan Business Tax's gross receipts calculation to exclude taxes businesses remit to the state has hung in limbo. The House acted on SB 1038 prior to recessing
LANSING - The first publicly-released public opinion poll on the controversial Reform Michigan Government Now! proposal shows that 70 percent of those queried support the broad measure that would dramatically reform legislative redistricting, cut the number of legislators and Supreme Court and Court of Appeals judges, and require financial disclosure. While Republican officials have pilloried
LANSING - A constitutional amendment offered by Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East Lansing) that would cut legislative pay, and deduct more for absences, as well as abolish term limits, will become the 16th joint resolution in the Legislature that could act as a counter for the Reform Michigan Government Now! ballot initiative, which seeks not only