Blog by Team MIRS

Rep. Jaime Greene (R-Richmond) introduced the Female Athletics Integrity of Records (FAIR) Act yesterday that requires a student athlete's awards, rankings and records achieved in an individual – not team – sport, to be categorized according to their biological sex.

MIRS has learned that the Governor is set to announce next Wednesday, at her budget presentation, investments in "direct reporting to parents." It will feature funding proposals to improve dashboards, parental engagement at school board meetings and district awards for "implementing best practices."

In the midst of the flap last year over one of the governor's appointees spending a wad of money on an office coffeemaker, Rep. Joseph Aragona (R-Clinton Township) fashioned a bill to ferret out more suspected government wasteful spending.

Rep. Douglas Wozniak (R-Shelby Township) introduced a bill Tuesday imposing an up to $1 million monthly fine on counties for letting sewage spill into public waterways.

An appeals panel affirmed the conviction and sentence of a Battle Creek mother who cyberbullied a 19-year-old in 2020.