Blog categorized as State Government

(DIMONDALE) – The state broke ground Friday on a public health and environmental science laboratory that will be shared among the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO).

Deploying Michigan National Guard units to Texas to aid its state authorities in managing illegal Mexico-United States border crossings is an action the Legislature's Republican leaders are pushing for, following a recent trip to Eagle Pass, a Texas city adjacent to the river Rio Grande.

Rep. Cam Cavitt (R-Cheboygan) has introduced legislation giving Michigan residents priority access to state parks and forests, which he called a unique perk to incentivize living in Michigan.

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

Spirits are missing from the state inventory and there isn’t a teenager alone in the house to blame.