Michigan Legislature

Friday on Stateside, details in the state Legislature's $80 billion budget plan. The budget includes a new 24% tax on cannabis wholesalers to fund road repairs, as well as a slight increase on spending on K-12 education.

An effort to move up Michigan’s primary election date next year may be dead on arrival in the state Legislature.

An appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state House Republican majority can sit on bills adopted by the Legislature in the last session instead of sending them to the governor.

The Michigan Cannabis Regulatory Agency is seeking help from state lawmakers to regulate the marijuana industry.

The advertising analysis firm AdImpact expects Michigan political campaigns to spend $936 million on advertising during the 2026 midterm election cycle.

The Michigan Senate voted Tuesday to prevent certain radioactive materials from being disposed of in the state. The legislation would also more than double fees for dumping hazardous waste.

Michigan House Republicans passed the rest of their $78.5 billion proposal for the state’s next budget Tuesday. Republicans said the plan, which comes in around $4 billion lower than the current budget, cuts government waste.

State of Michigan officials are celebrating meeting their initial goal of building 75,000 new housing units by next year.That puts the state around two-thirds of the way to its new goal of creating 115,000 new units.

Reporting from the “No Kings” march in Lansing, and Michigan Republicans’ new proposal for the K-12 education budget. Also, a conversation with Detroit-based printer Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., and a dispatch from a lake-based dispute between Michigan’s western neighbors.

Michigan lawmakers went home without passing a new budget for K-12 schools Thursday night. That’s despite, both meeting for hours and a statutory July 1 deadline for getting an entire state budget done.