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Senate Dems OK Giving Communities 50% Of SOAR Bucks For 'Transformative' Projects

03/20/24 10:25 AM By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Senate Dems OK Giving Communities 50% Of SOAR Bucks For 'Transformative' Projects
Fifty percent of the total funding appropriated into the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) Fund will be directed to "transformative community investments," such as housing, transit and childcare services, under legislation approved by the Senate

Nearly $1M In Booze Missing From State Warehouses

03/20/24 10:05 AM By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Nearly $1M In Booze Missing From State Warehouses
Spirits are missing from the state inventory and there isn’t a teenager alone in the house to blame.

Greek-Letter Glitch Gains Gravitas; Filling FOIAs Take Half a Year

03/18/24 02:44 PM By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Greek-Letter Glitch Gains Gravitas; Filling FOIAs Take Half a Year
A six-month MIRS investigation of four Michigan state departments failed to produce any internal documents written in Greek letters.

Bill Giving Corrections Ombudsman More Powers Stuck In House Purgatory

03/06/24 10:52 AM By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Bill Giving Corrections Ombudsman More Powers Stuck In House Purgatory
The Governor's corrections department remains opposed to legislation reforming the state's legislative corrections ombudsman and how it investigates the state's prisons. The bill now sits dormant in a House committee after receiving unanimous support in the Senate about three months ago.

Schriver Stripped Of Staff, Caucus Services

02/13/24 01:19 PM By Team MIRS - Comment(s)
Schriver Stripped Of Staff, Caucus Services
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.”
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