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Michigan Still Has Highest Unemployment, But ... — New figures show Michigan's unemployment rate has decreased.
Bad Hangovers, Bad Memories, Bad Taxes — Lawmakers recklessly imbibe in end-of-year work, and taxpayers will be left' [...]
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Michigan Still Has Highest Unemployment, But ... — New figures show Michigan's unemployment rate has decreased.
Bad Hangovers, Bad Memories, Bad Taxes — Lawmakers recklessly imbibe in end-of-year work, and taxpayers will be left' [...]
Less than three months after announcing he had a rare blood disease, State Rep. Mike Simpson (D-Jackson) has died.
Simpson, 47, suffered a heart attack Friday night on his way back from treatments at the Cleveland Clinic. Lawmakers performed the traditional honor for a lawmaker who has [...]
Rep. Mike Simpson has died of a heart attack he suffered while returning from the Cleveland Clinic.
House Speaker Andy Dillon made the announcement Friday evening on the House floor as lawmakers waited to vote on a series of education bills.
Simpson, from Jackson County's Blackman Township, has been ill [...]
It’s often touted as the best hope to resurrect manufacturing in Michigan — large-scale production and assembly of lithium ion battery packs for the hybrid or pure electric vehicles of the future.
According to news from the state Capitol, lawmakers in Lansing want to [...]
Michigan Information and Research Services, MIRS, a subscription only newsletter covering happenings at the Michigan Capitol, reports that legislative leaders reached a compromise in a series of bills aimed at reforming Michigan’s education system to qualify for millions in federal dollars.
The newsletter reports that negotiators left a closed door [...]
LANSING– Both chambers of the Michigan legislature remained in session Thursday night, preparing for four bills lawmakers say are key to Michigan’s educational future.
Four bills are pending in joint House-Senate conference committees. There lawmakers will hammer out the differences between the bills passed in the Democratic dominated House and the [...]
Today’s story on the would-be reformers of Michigan’s Sex Offender Registry (and the laws that govern how it works) notes an analysis conducted earlier this year from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children which concludes that Michigan’s registry has more people [...]
LANSING — In testimony before the House Great Lakes and Environment Committee, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin Elsenheimer told fellow lawmakers that Asian carp are a threat to the great lakes.
“We also have to recognize that the Asian Carp issue is perhaps the largest threat to the great lakes, [...]
This week could be the make or break week for a statewide smoking ban in public places, according to a story in today’s Detroit Free Press.
Lansing bureau chief Chris Christoff lays out the familiar battle lines separating lawmakers who see a need to [...]
By Lee Fang
Glenn Beck, who has waged a conspiratorial, hateful campaign against liberals and his other political enemies all year, has been galvanizing his supporters to run for office. Today, conservative activist Eric Forcade announced that he is running in the [...] 
By Stephen C. Webster
The Bush administration permitted the world's most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq, according to a Democratic lawmaker from New York. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) leveled the allegation during an [...]
Last night on Fox News’ Red Eye, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) explained to host Greg Gutfeld why he does not believe that human activity is causing global warming. McCotter, who is the chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee, a GOP group charged with helping Republican lawmakers [...]
