MIRS Articles Of Note

State agencies would be given $11.5 million, under new Rep. Carrie Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) legislation, to test more animals and humans for the avian flu, a virus that is wiping out entire bird flocks and starting to make people sick.

The House Education and Workforce Committee took up an education package that waives teaching license renewal fees for teachers, requires teacher preparation programs in math and science to be approved by content-area experts and allows school districts to administer local teaching certificates.

Rep. Josh Schriver (R-Oxford) said on Tuesday he is working on legislation to ban internet pornography from everyone in Michigan, those under 18 and those older than 18.

Rep. Matthew Bierlein (R-Vassar)’s Taxpayer Receipt Act answers the constituent question: “Where do my tax dollars go?”

March is Michigan Food and Agricultural Awareness Month, and McDonald's kicked it off by highlighting its Michigan food supply at an Okemos franchise with Michigan agricultural organizations and legislators.