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92% Of Local Funding Proposals Pass During May Election

05/04/22 09:22 AM - By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
92% Of Local Funding Proposals Pass During May Election
Schools around Michigan were the big winners during the May 3 election with more than $1.2 billion in millages and bonds passing, according to MIRS' recording of Tuesday night's ballot proposals involving requests for money.

Rinke: 'We Followed The Rules'

05/03/22 03:22 PM - By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Rinke: 'We Followed The Rules'
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kevin Rinke praised his campaign team for turning in 21,000 petition signatures that have, for now at least, passed public scrutiny.

'Huge' New Scholarship Program Added To Senate Budget; They Call It MAGA

04/22/22 04:05 PM - By Team MIRS - Comment(s)

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 04/21/2022) University students would see up to $6,000 a year and community college students up to $3,000 a year under a proposed scholarship grant program that moved out of a Senate appropriations subcommittee this afternoon. They're calling it the Michigan Achiev...

Luntz: Republicans Turning Their Backs On 11th Commandment

04/21/22 02:06 PM - By Team MIRS - Comment(s)

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 04/20/2022) The success of the Republican Party in the upcoming general election will depend on their behavior in the primary, according to Frank Luntz, a political consultant and pollster.

 

Ahead of his keynote speech for the Michigan Political Leadership Prog...

Final Day Of Filing Ends In A Verbal Fistfight

04/20/22 10:17 AM - By Team MIRS - Comment(s)

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 04/19/2022) Verbal fireworks exploded in the Bureau of Elections shortly before Thursday's 4 p.m. candidate filing deadline when a state Senate candidate and another candidate's staffer traded repeated insults toward each other.

 

The day inside the Bureau of El...