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.
DETROIT – Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the 2024-25 fiscal year budget Wednesday that included $9 million in line-item vetoes surrounded by top House and Senate Democrats, Detroit leaders and public safety officials.
DETROIT – Michigan's legislative leaders on Wednesday said the respective appropriations committees in the House and Senate would ultimately parse the merits of using the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund to keep jobs in Michigan instead of attracting them.
Many Michigan Democrats are rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president following President Joe Biden's announcement that he will not seek a second term.
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.
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.
Following the mass shooting that took place in Rochester Hills on Saturday, lawmakers and elected officials are reacting as the Metro Detroit Community is reeling.
MACKINAC ISLAND – During the final panel of the Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference, legislative leadership gathered to discuss the state of politics in Michigan.
The Senate majority's leader's office rejected a proposed mailer from Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt for using the term "illegal immigrants," he said Wednesday, calling it censorship from the Democratic majority.