LANSING - Michigan has been making educational improvements since the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, but at one of the slowest rates in the nation, a new report said. The study by Education Sector showed Michigan with the fifth lowest improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress of the 50
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder has long enjoyed rock-solid support from the Republican Party, but the move by several prominent tea party activists to urge conservatives to "sit out" Snyder's anticipated 2014 re-election campaign puts into question whether Snyder can rely on a robust GOP turnout. Snyder has never been a tea party favorite, not
LANSING - The Department of Treasury has issued a bulletin defining "active solicitation" of business that includes operating a website or sending emails to entice purchasers from Michigan to qualify to pay the Michigan Corporate Income Tax. Those solicitations, which can include advertising and mailing coupons and catalogs, can count as establishing nexus within the
LANSING - Legislation designed to open up more privately owned forestland to the timber industry was signed into law Thursday by Governor Rick Snyder, who hailed the bills as boosting the state's economy. "This is an opportunity to export more," he said at a news conference with legislators and timber industry officials. "This is actually
LANSING - Legislation designed to provide more flexibility in the Michigan Merit Curriculum for students who are interested in taking more career technical courses passed the House on Thursday. Supporters and opponents debated again Thursday whether the bills (HB 4465 and HB 4466 , approved 81-26 and 87-20) diminish the quality of education in the
LANSING - Bills that would force the collection of the sales and use tax on purchases made through online entities that have affiliations in the state were on the Michigan House Tax Policy Committee agenda Wednesday, but were not voted on because House Democrats on the committee were going to abstain from voting. Rep. Jeff
LANSING - The Council of Great Lakes Governors pushed for more trade transportation on the lakes as Illinois opened the door to ending ship traffic between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. The governors and premiers included Asian carp on the council's list of "least wanted" invasive species, and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn acknowledged that
WASHINGTON DC - A federal judge has ruled that Google must comply with the FBI's warrantless requests for confidential user data, despite the search company's arguments that the secret demands are illegal. CNET has learned that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco rejected Google's request to modify or throw out 19 so-called National
MACKINAC ISLAND - A program begun at the first Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference that Governor Rick Snyder attended as chief executive got a major boost Thursday at a press conference that included Snyder. Executives for both DTE Energy and CMS Energy announced that their companies would spend $1 billion each over the next
MACKINAC ISLAND - Recent municipal bankruptcies have not ended well, but the outcome of such a move would be different for Detroit because leaders are planning for it, Treasurer Andy Dillon said as part of a series of panels on the resurgence of the city. Dillon said the goal is still to keep Detroit out