State Legislature
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Gilchrist implores Michigan lawmakers to consider caregiver tax credit
As the Legislature hammers out the details of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget this summer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist is urging lawmakers to include tax credits for caregivers.
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Report: Michigan’s top Republican lawmaker wagered $73K on sports bets in one month
Reports show that Michigan House Minority Leader Matt Hall placed roughly $73,000 in online sports bets in the span of just 33 days—more than his annual salary in Lansing.
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A Ferndale woman used IVF to have a family—and to help others in Michigan have kids, too
A Michigander built the family she always dreamed of thanks to in-vitro fertilization—how lawmakers want to protect her children and others.
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Southeast Michigan school officials call for ‘stability’ in state funding
Education leaders said there’s an “urgent need” to support students and teachers—and avert staffing and program cuts.
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Michigan Senate passes $20 billion School Aid budget bill
The Democratic-led Michigan Senate has passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2025 state budget after voting on Wednesday the final bill in the proposal.
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Bills prohibiting landlords from income-based discrimination pass House committee
A five-bill package that would prevent landlords from denying renters based on their source of income passed through the Michigan House Judiciary Committee.
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Report: Michigan teacher salaries lag behind inflation
Despite record funding for public schools in Michigan, teacher salaries aren’t keeping pace with the rate of inflation.
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Few mothers have served in the Michigan Legislature while raising children
At least 27 men currently serving in the Michigan Legislature are fathers of school-aged children. But there’s a big “mom gap.”
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Michigan parents and lawmakers want to help teachers help dyslexic kids
Getting Michigan’s teachers more concrete resources to help students with dyslexia—through new legislation.
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‘Melody’s Law’ would explicitly criminalize necrophilia in Michigan
There is no law on the books in Michigan that expressly criminalizes engaging in sexual conduct with a dead person.
