Blog categorized as Local Government

Local voters agreed to bond out nearly $330 million for school projects in at least 13 school districts, according to election results compiled by MIRS News.

Federal funds intended to stabilize the budgets of local communities have proven a daunting task to take down for multiple reasons, a recent policy survey by the University of Michigan found.

The Senate version of legislation undoing Michigan’s "No Stricter Than Federal" environmental regulation statute is headed to the Governor’s desk after passing along partisan lines in the House Wednesday, reopening the door for state agencies to consider more stringent non-emergency restrictions.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new property tax plan Wednesday that would increase taxes on land while reducing building taxes, which he said would address the persistence of blighted and abandoned properties in the city.

Three years after heavy rains broke the Edenville and Sanford dams, area residents who were flooded out at the time are still not whole, as many homeowners have double mortgages they cannot possibly pay off in their lifetime, according to Sanford Village Councilman Carl Hamann.