LANSING -- State House lawmakers completed work on the state's 2012-13 budget Friday, adopting a $1.4-billion spending plan for public universities, $...
Detroit Free Press | Posted 06.01.2012
LANSING -- The sourcing of materials to build a new public bridge from Detroit to Windsor is one of several obstacles that must be cleared before the ...
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 06.01.2012
Racing fans are falling over themselves this week to scoop up tickets for the Detroit Grand Prix, making its return to Belle Isle. The IndyCar event r...
Posted 05.31.2012
Michigan officials have heard Detroit's top lawyer make her case against the legality of the city's consent agreement with the state, but they say the...
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 05.31.2012
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is far from energized about a proposed ballot measure that would obligate the state's utilities to generate 25 percent of th...
Posted 05.30.2012
The approval ratings for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are trending upward, but that positive political sign hasn't stopped the Republican's opponents fro...
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.30.2012
While other Michiganders are returning home from Memorial Day weekends on the beach, movers and shakers from across the state are heading to a quaint ...
The Huffington Post | Simone Landon | Posted 05.25.2012
Shortly after Detroit City Council approved its version of the 2013 budget, totaling $246 million in cuts, Wednesday afternoon, Michigan Gov. Rick Sny...
Posted 05.17.2012
Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Detroiter Dr. Glenda Price to the city's Financial Advisory Board Thursday. Price is a president emeritus at Marygrove C...
Posted 05.17.2012
Someone must've decided the third week of May would be good for ceremonial shoveling: Following the Whole Foods groundbreaking Monday, Michigan Gov. R...
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.17.2012
Michigan fiscal analysts announced Wednesday the state would draw in millions more dollars in revenue than expected this fiscal year, but the addition...
Model D | Posted 05.08.2012
This article originally appeared in Model D. By Tom Clynes William Rustem, director of strategy for Gov. Rick Snyder, says that nothing is more ...
The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 04.30.2012
A report released Monday by the Michigan League For Human Services has some good news for Detroit's expectant parents and new babies, but finds there'...
Posted 04.27.2012
Detroit's consent agreement-mandated financial advisory board is beginning to fill out, as Mayor Dave Bing announced his two appointments to the nine-...
The Huffington Post | Simone Landon | Posted 04.26.2012
This story has been updated. Michigan's Board of Canvassers deadlocked on a vote Thursday and failed to certify more than 200,000 signatures seekin...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.24.2012
Three Republican governors used a Tuesday morning press conference at a regional summit of the National Governors Association to blame President Barac...
The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 04.24.2012
After several months hammering out the details, the backers behind a plan to put a 3.4-mile rail track down Woodward Ave. in Detroit submitted a repor...
Posted 04.23.2012
The University of Michigan's battle with Republican lawmakers over stem cell research took a turn Friday when Republican Gov. Rick Snyder sided with t...
AP | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN | Posted 04.19.2012
LANSING, Mich. -- The unemployment rate in Michigan is high, its population is shrinking and scores of manufacturing plants have closed. Still, Presid...
The Huffington Post | Simone Landon | Posted 04.19.2012
The first three members of Detroit's new nine-member Financial Advisory Board were announced Thursday, with appointments coming from Gov. Rick Snyder,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.16.2012
A month after Moody's Investors Service downgraded more than $2.5 billion of Detroit's debt to below investment grade, the city is still under review ...
Detroit News | Posted 04.16.2012
By Karen Bouffard Lawmakers return from their spring break Tuesday — and back into a tug of war with Gov. Rick Snyder over the state budget that ...
Posted 04.09.2012
Unused since 2009, the Michigan State Fairgrounds could get a new life. On Monday morning, Governor Rick Snyder passed Public Act 74 and 75, allow...
HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.09.2012
With Detroit in apparent free fall, city officials voted this week to install a nine-member financial control board with the authority to approve the ...
Free Press | Posted 04.07.2012
By Matt Helms Gov. Rick Snyder will sign bills in Detroit on Monday to allow redevelopment of the Michigan State Fairgrounds, mostly unused since t...
www.freep.com | Posted 06.02.2012