Senate Republicans raised slightly more than the Democrats during the most recent quarter while building a small cash on hand advantage, campaign finance statements filed Thursday revealed.
What had been looking more and more like a Republican advantage in the race for Michigan's 15 electoral votes was thrown into tumult Sunday with Biden bowing out of the race and leaving the Democratic nomination in limbo.
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally led several Michigan political leaders to urge moving away from political rhetoric that often vilifies opponents and casts elections as cataclysmic events that could lead to national ruin – depending on the winner of the contest.
One of the lightest legislative years in memory roared to life Wednesday and then on toward dawn Thursday as the Democratic majority in the Legislature blasted the 2024-25 fiscal year budget through to passage just eight hours after it began to publicly leak and approved an avalanche of major bills.
A K-12 school aid budget unlike any other received final passage just before 5 a.m. Thursday as Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic legislative leaders prevailed over a coalition of dismayed groups – traditionally Democratic allies – representing traditional public schools.
A Detroit-area Senate map adopted Wednesday by the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission offers a fairly stable plan from a partisan standpoint but includes some radical geographic changes for the members across 15 amended districts.
For the first time in a decade of work by bill sponsors, a proposed expansion of the Freedom of Information Act to include the Legislature and the governor's office was taken up Wednesday in the Senate, and passed, with wide bipartisan votes.
A tentative plan circulated Tuesday to resolve the 2024-25 fiscal year K-12 school budget sent shockwaves through the Capitol community.
Senate Democrats pushed through a vehicle bill Thursday in line with the governor's proposal for diverting money from the state's contribution to the other post-employment benefits portion of the teacher retirement fund as negotiations on an education budget continue.
The reason the other post-employment benefits portion of teacher retirement fund is fully funded is because of sacrifices educators have made and the funds should be put toward reducing their costs, school groups said during a press conference on Wednesday.