Blog tagged as Legislature

Tuesday, a collaborative of statewide and regional hospitality and tourism organizations, called the Michigan Hospitality and Tourism Alliance, announced its formation, along with a corresponding bicameral caucus.

The latest episode in the saga that is the 54-54 split House had the majority of the House Republican caucus voting no on one of their own members’ bills, after House Democrats did not put eight Republican-requested bills on the agenda.

While projecting the state's retiree healthcare system for teachers to be 100 percent funded in its next valuation, Gretchen Whitmer wants to redirect $670 million in otherwise additional public school retirement debt payments to other K-12 priorities for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.

For the first time during her six-year tenure, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made endorsements in two state House special elections, giving her stamp of approval to Macomb County Commissioner Mai Xiong in the 13th District and City Council President Pro Tempore Andrea Rutkowski in the 25th.

The 2024 calendar year doesn’t need Michigan’s now-legal aerial fireworks to give it a bang.