LANSING - Senate Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday announced plans alongside other Senate Democrats to bring major reforms to how Michigan's elections are run after what they called a "politicization" of the secretary of state's office and the fact that people had complained of waiting in line for hours to cast their vote earlier
LANSING - With more than 1.1 million Michigan residents annually seeking food assistance, the Department of Natural Resources encourages hunters to consider making a donation to Michigan Sportsmen Against Hunger when purchasing hunting licenses this year. Donations will be used to support the processing of deer donated to participating processors. Last year, the venison donated
LANSING - A path to 56 seats for Michigan House Democrats exists, but increasingly difficult to envision transpiring with less than two weeks to go until Election Day. However, Democrats are increasingly confident that if a Democrat is not the speaker's chair next session, neither will House Speaker Jase Bolger as they work hard and
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a handful of economic incentives Wednesday as well as a request for proposals for the state's 2013 Business Incubator Program. Total funding available in the incubator program is $8.5 million. It assists entrepreneurs in launching and growing start-up technology companies throughout the state. The MSF is looking for
LANSING - John E. Nixon has been named Public Official of the Year by Governing magazine, citing his key role in Michigan?s turnaround. Nixon serves as both the State Budget Director and Director of the Department of Technology, Management and Budget. The award is given for outstanding individual accomplishment in government. Nixon will be honored
LANSING - The ballot proposal requiring a two-thirds legislative majority or affirmative statewide vote to raise taxes would not apply to fees or tax credits, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency. Some critics of Proposal 12-5 have questioned whether it would apply to increasing or creating new fees, but the HFA
LANSING - The fiscal impact of five out of the six November ballot proposals could not be determined by the Senate Fiscal Agency, but it was able to calculate some unfavorable numbers for the proposal to require a statewide vote for the construction of any new international bridge or tunnel for motor vehicles. The agency's
DETROIT - Asking a registered voter to reaffirm that they are a United States citizen this November shows a lack of equal protection under the law and has already created a lack of consistency throughout the Department of State, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Borman ruled on Friday, and therefore the question should not be
LANSING - Arguably the most impressively produced and acted candidate commercial in Michigan political history has hit ... the Internet: a four-minute film for Supreme Court candidate Bridget Mary McCormack set up as a micro-episode of the classic television series "The West Wing" and featuring the stars of that popular program. One of the stars
LANSING - Considering an increase to the state's renewable portfolio standard is reasonable, but it should be done in the Legislature through a proposed statute, not in the Constitution through a ballot issue, said Attorney General Bill Schuette, former Attorney General Mike Cox and former Supreme Court Justice Conrad Mallett Jr. The three current and