Michigan Technology related politics
LANSING - The Michigan Department of Treasury Business Tax Division was not ensuring that businesses were filing all the necessary tax forms and was not following up when forms were tagged for errors, a report from Auditor General Doug Ringler said. The performance audit of the Corporate Income Tax and Michigan Business Tax in the
LANSING - The showdown between Tesla Motors Incorporated and the state about whether the company can sell its vehicles in Michigan without a franchise dealer agreement, brewing for years, is on with the company filing a lawsuit Thursday. Tesla filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Western Michigan one week after the Department
LANSING - Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was unchanged in August from July at 4.5 percent, but the state saw both its total labor force and number of people working fall in August. Governor Rick Snyder still praised the news, saying Michigan's jobless rate is below the national August unemployment rate of 4.9 percent. "As
LANSING - Michigan’s net metering and solar program increased 20 percent in 2015 from the year before, reports a new study released Monday by the Michigan Public Service Commission Monday. Under a net metering program, when customers produce electric energy in excess of their needs, power is provided back to the serving utility, permitting the
LANSING - The Public Service Commission on Thursday authorized the Upper Peninsula Power Company to increase its electric rates, but by an amount 30.4 percent lower than the utility had requested. Also, because the final amount approved ($4,647,975 annually) is lower than the more than $6.2 million the utility self-implemented in March, the PSC said
LANSING - Michigan voters will continue to be able to choose a party’s slate of candidates with a single mark on the ballot following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the state’s appeal of a lower court ruling preventing the new law eliminating the straight ticket option from taking effect. The high court’s
LANSING - The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to hold a hearing en banc on a stay of Michigan's straight-ticket voting ban, which raises the possibility the issue may not be resolved until after the November election. A dissent in the split-decision on whether to hear the appeal indicated that without
ANN ARBOR - Since 2005, about two dozen states have created "Stand Your Ground" laws authorizing deadly force in self-defense. And nearly all of those laws have similar language. So, how did that happen? They all shared an author: The American Legislative Exchange Council drafted "model" legislation and lobbied states to pass it. This tactic
LANSING - Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump in Michigan according to a new poll in which 44 percent of those surveyed said they support Clinton compared to 37 percent backing Trump. The poll, conducted by Suffolk University, included all other minor party candidates who have qualified for the ballot, with 5
ANN ARBOR - After five years of steady statewide improvement, fewer Michigan communities report that they are better able to meet their fiscal needs this year. A University of Michigan survey polled top elected and appointed officials in the state's 1,856 units of local government and found that 2016 marked a change in earlier trends
