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House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) wants to prohibit hospitals from using artificial intelligence to maximize service prices and health insurers from using it to deny claims.

The Michigan Victory Fund (MVF), the political action committee for the Republican Governors Association (RGA), has significantly scaled back its media spending on John James (R-Shelby Township), a notable development that is leaving the Republican nominee with no substantial paid media presence four weeks before the general election.

Michigan voters have returned 30% more absentee ballots than at the same point before the 2022 general election, although Practical Political Data’s Mark Grebner cautioned that automatic ballot mailings help explain the increase.

Republican Secretary of State nominee Anthony Forlini says college students should vote in their hometowns, but his party’s youth chair encourages them to register near campus when doing so could help Republicans win.

Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers will share the same stage for the first time at Thursday's debate, less than four weeks before voters decide who will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Oakland County).

Putting money on an election could change more than a trader’s bank balance. It could influence whether someone votes, whom they support and how they react when their candidate loses, according to researchers watching the growth of election prediction markets.

Former Sen. Virgil Smith Jr. was granted an expungement today on a felony conviction that stemmed from his firing an AR-15 rifle into his ex-wife’s empty Mercedes-Benz after a confrontation between the two. She was upset over finding another woman at his house.

The national political environment has Democrats expanding their congressional battlefield into territory that, in most election cycles, would be considered a reach.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said today her administration is exploring ways to ease high fuel costs other than suspending Michigan’s gas tax, but declined when asked whether she would veto a temporary suspension if lawmakers sent one to her desk.

To be sure, Nick Rowe is not a household name, but if he somehow defeats the GOP House Speaker next month, that would dramatically change overnight. He thinks he can do it.

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, as the cliché goes, what does U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers’ AI-generated comic-like strip showing him as “Buff Mike” say?

Two disgraced doctors, including convicted child molester Larry Nassar, are among the more than 20,000 sex offenders removed from Michigan’s sex offender registry after a Michigan Supreme Court ruling.

U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) told MIRS today that he has never faced an opponent as starkly opposed to his vision as his current campaign adversary, and that voters in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District are facing a choice unlike any in recent memory.

The Citizens Research Council of Michigan released a report today analyzing the Michiganders for Money Out of Politics (MMOP) ballot initiative and found it could impact political advertising, but the money issue was questionable.

Robin Schneider of the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association (MiCIA) says two members have committed suicide in the last month as marijuana business owners struggle to keep up with the new 24% wholesale tax.

The Republican nominee looking to unseat Sen. Kevin Hertel (D-St. Clair Shores) was dismissed from a federal lawsuit alleging he and others provided fabricated production information to food additive customers.

Democrats are making Mike Rogers’ congressional health care voting record and campaign contributions from pharmaceutical and insurance interests a key line of attack as they try to draw a contrast between the Republican and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Races in two neighboring south-central House districts are sucking up nearly half of all the reserved TV spending in state House races going into the first weekend of absentee voting, based on tracking information from AdImpact.

This week, MIRS Editor Kyle Melinn received in the mail at his Lansing address a campaign flier for Mike Bouchard, who is running for a congressional district 100 miles away in Macomb County.

Realtor Jody White and retired engineer Thomas Howe acknowledge they are not attorneys. They are also the U.S. Taxpayers Party’s nominees for Michigan Supreme Court, where the state Constitution requires justices to have been admitted to the practice of law for at least five years.