Some 10% of Michigan districts are going to voters with tax requests in November. Taxes for roads and public safety still overwhelmingly pass, but the success rate of school bonds has plummeted in recent years.
The Secretary of State has rejected over 25,000 personalized license plates including “0LFART” and “MAFIA” because the combination of letters and numbers result in not-so-friendly words or phrases.
Professor Marco Díaz-Muñoz says concern for his students, support from MSU is helping him overcome trauma after a gunman burst into his class last year and began a shooting spree that killed three.
Money alone doesn’t win elections, but Michigan Democrats Elissa Slotkin and Rashida Tlaib are pulling in big bucks, while Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are raising funds for others.
Engineering company Veolia North America settles class-action lawsuit before a trial was set to begin on Feb. 13. The company consulted the city of Flint after its disastrous 2014 water switch.
Bridge Michigan analyzed House maps under consideration to replace those deemed illegal. The new districts are less overwhelmingly Democratic and far more homogenous racially.
The federal government says it won’t send student financial information to colleges until March, more than a month later than expected. This means students will have to wait longer for financial aid offers.
Among changes this year, some Michiganders could see more money on their tax return this season after Gov.Gretchen Whitmer signed into law an Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Mai Xiong and Peter Herzberg won Democratic special election primaries in the 13th and 25th state House districts. They will advance to the general election in April, the last step in replacing two lawmakers who stepped down for local office and breaking a House tie.
Copper demand is surging as electric battery production increases, but Michigan economic officials suspended a vote on the Highland Copper Co. mine amid questions about the project’s financing.