From MLive:
The Senate this afternoon approved, 24-13, the smoking ban, but concurred with House carveouts for cigar bars, specialty shops and the gaming floors of Detroit's three commerical casinos.
Since the House passed this bill the first time with a vote of 73-31, it's very likely that the Senate version [...]
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s proposal to sell $250 million in debt reduction bonds cleared its first major hurdle then the state House Appropriations Committee approved the sale by a 19-8 vote on Wednesday. The bonds be backed by future state revenue sharing funds and future property tax receipts, [...]
Sen. Michelle McManus, who is a GOP candidate for Secretary of State, put out a “special alert” Wednesday afternoon declaring she was “taking on ACORN.”
In the e-mail alert, McManus argues that her Senate Campaign and Election Oversight Committee will take up her legislation to “to clamp down on voter fraud [...]
For weeks now, polls have been popping up all over concurring that President Obama's approval ratings are going south - big time. Despite his continued whining that everything bad that's happening is George Bush's fault and something Barack unfairly inherited, the voters are waking up to what all that Hope [...]
Late Tuesday, House Speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township said his fellow Democrats who control the House will have to accept the bitter medicine of deep cuts with the hopes that the Republican-controlled Senate would muster votes for new taxes or fees to restore programs they [...]
Mike Bishop says we may yet get a vote on the workplace smoking ban this week. He himself prefers that we leave things up to Magic Market Fairies to sort out.
“I think the House will pass just about whatever we send them,” Bishop said. “I think that really [...]
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at [...]
Bernie pr0n says Mike Bishop may have won the battle, but lost the war on K-12 funding:
Lansing -- Local public school districts have too little funding to provide a quality education, according to 60 percent of voters surveyed in an exclusive Detroit News/WXYZ (Channel 7) poll released Tuesday.
Only [...]
Being a district with an open seat due to the term limit of the honorable Rep. John [...]
A sharply divided Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 to adopt new recusal rules for justices in cases where they may have an ethical conflict of interest. The changes were prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found a violation of rights for parties before a state supreme [...]
DETROIT—Former Michigan Vice President of Synagro Technologies James Rosendall was sentenced to 11 months in prison and $200,000 in fines this afternoon for approving at least $6,000 in bribes to former city councilwoman Monica Conyers in exchange for a favorable vote on a $1.2 billion sludge disposal contract with Synagro, [...]
The Right devotes more time to hijacking history and inventing the present.
They warn of death panels and a loss of liberty if this health care bill is approved and present seven turkeys — representing the seven counties in Schauer's Congressional district and the seven worst things about the health [...]
The latest poll from Denno-Noor on the 2010 governor’s race shows Rep. Pete Hoekstra has jumped into the lead. The poll of 950 likely voters in the state of Michigan found Hoekstra leading current Attorney General Mike Cox and Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard by a fairly healthy margin. [...]
It probably surprises exactly no one to read two things -- people are fed up with party politics, and next year's gubernatorial race is up for grabs. In fact, I can't believe someone would bother to commission a poll about whether voters' moods about party politics. It's one [...]
