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A top line of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy’s (EGLE) budget presentation before the House Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday focused on landfill tipping fee increases, which would bring in an additional $80 million and create 36 full-time jobs.

House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) announced Monday he will strip Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) of his office allotment, reassign his staff and remove him from one committee in response to Schriver’s “sustained campaign of racist rhetoric and hate speech on social media.”

During Wednesday's budget presentation, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer trumpeted that her administration will have paid off $21 billion in public employees and school employee retirement debt by the end of Fiscal Year 2025, according to Department of Technology, Management and Budget numbers.

Mary Patterson, the daughter of the late longtime Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, is planning to drop out of her own bid for the top government executive post in Oakland County due to an inability to raise money in a volatile atmosphere for Republicans.

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) would see a more than 74 percent drop in its funding between the current Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, under the Governor's proposal, as a sizable chunk of its authority is transferred to a brand new department.