Colin Jackson
Reporter, Michigan Public Radio Network-
The issue started in December when the Republican-led Michigan House Appropriations Committee, by itself, tried to cancel around $650 million in earmarked funds, claiming it was unspent money from a previous state budget and should be reallocated to the general fund. -
Bills to expand the sale of raw milk made it out of committee and to the full Michigan House of Representatives Thursday. -
Republicans are proposing a very different tax plan than the governor when it comes to dealing with federal funding cuts and a dip in state revenue. -
Michigan could start allowing digital IDs under bills that received a state Senate committee hearing Tuesday. The IDs would be saved to someone’s phone and could be used for things like buying alcohol or getting into a bar. -
Some legislators are concerned about the use of AI software to monitor employees in the workplace. The companies offering the software say it increases productivity. -
A national Democratic party group is focusing resources on Michigan’s 35th state Senate District. Analysts have framed the mid-Michigan area as a bellwether for the country’s political climate. -
A plan to prepare Michigan for the possibility of a federal constitutional convention got a state House committee hearing Thursday. -
The legislation would outlaw knowingly giving false information regarding a donor’s social, educational, and family medical history, and ban doctors from using their own samples with patients. -
A bipartisan group of Michigan lawmakers is introducing legislation they say would make it easier to build new homes in the state.Among other things, the bills would allow duplexes in single-family residential areas, lower the minimum size for housing units, and reduce lot size requirements for single-family homes. -
As policymakers in Lansing debate lowering property taxes, a campaign to do away with them entirely is checking to see if it might qualify for the November ballot.
