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The Michigan Department of Corrections has handed over several plots of land that once housed the vacant Riverside Correctional Facility in Ionia city to the State Land Bank Authority for a yet-to-determined project.

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 02/28/2023) The Michigan County Roads Association (CRA) told the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee it needs an additional $1.8 billion a year to get local roads and bridges back into good condition.

Local school districts could use sinking fund ballot proposals to cover school bus purchases under SB 63, sponsored by Senate Education Chair Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia), which is now headed to the full Senate.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's $79 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget proposal spends all but $250 million of the current $9.2 billion surplus over several years on numerous ongoing and one-time programs and projects while dropping at least $1.6 billion into savings or addressing long-term debt.

The tax cut deal House and Senate Democrats struck with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to move out of a legislative conference committee Wednesday, Feb. 8, despite agitation among progressives and other Democratic legislators