LANSING - Every labor market in Michigan saw a drop of at least 1 full percentage point in their annual average unemployment rate from 2014 to 2015, reports the Department of Technology, Management and Budget. What’s more, just about every labor market in the state reported their jobless rates fell in December, from November. The
LANSING - Union membership in Michigan rebounded significantly in 2015 after suffering a sharp decline in 2014, the first full year of Michigan being a right-to-work state. This despite the fact that the state went from 14.5 percent of all employees belonging to a union to 15.2 percent even as more contracts ratified prior to
WASHINGTON DC - A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a stay sought by numerous states' attorneys general, including Michigan's Attorney General Bill Schuette, of the federal carbon emissions rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where the challenge to the EPA's Clean Power
LANSING - The United States and Canada need some additional structures in place to protect against withdrawals from the Great Lakes, but they also need better data on who is using what water from the basin, the International Joint Commission said in a report released this week. The report, a follow-up on the Great Lakes Compact
FLINT - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering the state and city of Flint to take a series of immediate actions to address the city's drinking water crisis, declaring the state and city "have failed to take adequate measures to protect public health." Additionally, in a series of rapid developments Thursday evening, President Barack
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's critics, hoping to find a damaging email he sent regarding what he knew and what he did about Flint water, likely came away disappointed from reading almost 300 pages of emails he sent and received on the topic in 2014 and 2015. In fact, most of the emails - which
LANSING - The Michigan Public Service Commission on Tuesday opened an investigation into Consumers Energy Company's estimated billing practices after hearing complaints from customers about estimated bills. "Problems have persisted for several years despite repeated meetings between the MPSC staff and the utility to reduce the number of estimated bills," PSC Chair Sally Talberg said
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder called for some drastic changes in culture and communications to prevent another city suffering the crisis that struck Flint, but after the governor's State of the State Address Environmental Quality Interim Director Keith Creagh saw the most need for change in his agency. Neither Creagh nor Health and Human Services
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder said tonight at the opening of his State of the State speech that he will release his emails from 2014 and 2015 on Flint water. Whether that will include just Snyder’s emails or those of all those in the Executive Office was not immediately clear. Under the Freedom of Information
FLINT - A group of roughly 100 citizens protesting the water crisis and associated conditions in Flint called for Governor Rick Snyder to resign, and House Minority Leader Tim Greimel agreed with them but only under certain conditions. "If the governor knew the seriousness of these problems and chose not to act, then he should
