Blog categorized as State Government

A six-month MIRS investigation of four Michigan state departments failed to produce any internal documents written in Greek letters.

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.

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.”

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) would see a more than 74 percent drop in its funding between the current Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, under the Governor's proposal, as a sizable chunk of its authority is transferred to a brand new department.

A proposal to raise the tipping fees at garbage dumps -- something that's been kicking around Lansing for the last 20 years – made it into the Governor's recommended budget Wednesday