Nearly eight months after US Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-Bay City) left her seat in the Michigan Senate to serve in Congress, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has called a special election to fill the vacant seat.
The budget bill moved by the Republican-led Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday would make massive cuts to state departments that oversee health and human services, labor and economic growth, environmental regulation and statewide law enforcement.
State Sen. Jeff Irwin is calling Republican-led budget delays “an embarrassment for Michigan”—warning that public schools are being forced to plan the year without knowing if they can actually fund basic priorities like literacy programs and smaller class sizes.
Kyle Kaminski breaks down how Michigan’s biggest utilities—like DTE and Consumers Energy—have been buying off state lawmakers at the state Capitol.
As the clock ticks downward to the end of August, the stalemate between the Democratic-led Michigan Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives over the state budget continued on Wednesday with no clearer timeline for when the two chambers might come to terms.
Parents and advocates for maternal and child health filed into the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday as members of the Senate Committee on Housing and Human Services prepared to take testimony on a proposal to bring a cash-based program supporting pregnant parents and babies into state law.
For Democratic State Rep. Mai Xiong, the struggle against ICE human rights abuses and the deportations affecting the nation’s immigrant communities are hitting closer to home.
Emails show that Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy, who’s also running for the Michigan Senate, held a political fundraiser for US Senate candidate Mike Rogers last month and coordinated the event using taxpayer-funded resources to do it.
Launched in 2024, the program comes at a time when many voters worry over high child care costs and President Donald Trump's administration floats policy to reverse the declining birth rate.
With signature gatherers hitting sidewalks across Michigan, groups are sounding the alarm on petitions they say would disenfranchise voters under the guise of election security.
