Michigan has the highest unemployment rate of any state at 14.1 percent, a distinction the state has held for 25 of the last 26 months. The next-hig...
USA Today | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Most of the $2.2 billion in economic stimulus money for Army Corps of Engineers construction projects will be spent in the home districts of members o...
Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.20.2009 | Business
When we're taxing candy, brothels and pot, we know our states are having difficulty balancing the budget.
AP | COREY WILLIAMS and ED WHITE | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
DETROIT — City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of a prominent congressman, sought political support from Baptist pastors and prayers fro...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
President Obama is seeking massive changes in the way the US is operating when it comes to energy, transportation, agriculture and labor, among others...
The Oakland Press | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The married Oakland County commissioner accused of indecent exposure in what police reports indicate was a public sex act was given two years to compl...
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 07.20.2009 | Home
Despite the news about GM filing for bankruptcy, my state should not be the object of pity. We will not be victims: We intend to lead the country in a move from 20th century rust to 21st century green.
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm | Posted 06.27.2009 | Green
Some doubters on this website have advocated "pulling the plug on Detroit." Instead, I invite you to plug in to the power of American ingenuity and American transformation.
MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 06.20.2009 | Home
May 20: Lansing, Michigan Mayor Virg Bernero and MSNBC's Ed Schultz discuss how people who lost their jobs, especially in the auto industry, are findi...
Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
The former actress is auditioning for a role in Washington but when you don't get asked to dance at Prom enough times, the invitations tend to dry up.
Bruce Nilles | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green
While the country is moving away from polluting fossil fuels, Kansas has opened the door for outdated, dirty technology other states are rejecting.
Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
What happens when a Republican strategist tries to figure out why the party keeps hemorrhaging votes? Well, in Michigan, he loses his job.
Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media
I'd like to bring your attention to a most wonderful film that I hope you'll get to see, ASPARAGUS! Stalking the American Life
Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Unless Obama proves to Michiganders that he is committed to the state as it bleeds jobs due to government-mandated auto restructuring, 2010 could be a very good Republican year here.
MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 05.17.2009 | Home
April 16: MSNBC's Ed Schultz talks with former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Michigan Mayor Virg Bernero about the government's double stan...
AP | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
DETROIT — Michigan's governor says talk about General Motors Corp. declaring bankruptcy "is unhealthy" but says such a filing is something the s...
AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.05.2009 | Home
DETROIT — Michael Moore says parts of it look like "the landscape of another planet." Ted Nugent refers to its "embarrassing filth."...
The Washington Independent | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
I was just talking to Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), who's leaving Congress to run for governor of Michigan, about his proposed Parental Rights Amendme...
Andy Kroll | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
Welcome to the other crisis spreading quietly across the country: the crisis of college affordability.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Bloviator Bill O'Reilly says he boycotts Sean Penn's movies because he doesn't like his politics. Well then, Mr. O'Reilly, I guess Sean Penn just won't watch your show.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
Fear and anger are rising in Michigan. New York gets what it wants, when it wants it, from Washington; Michigan gets slapped in the face.
Roger I. Abrams | Posted 04.24.2009 | Entertainment
Fran had never become a sports fanatic, at least until now. The 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, however, has changed all of that.
AP | JEFF KAROUB and ED WHITE | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
DETROIT — The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July after 174 years and will be replaced by a Web-focused community news operation built...
michiganmessenger.com | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
Dioxin, a by-product of the chemical manufacturing process, has long been known as a carcinogen and is regulated by state and federal agencies. EPA st...
AP | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Michigan's high unemployment is no laughing matter, but Jay Leno will offer a little comic relief with a free show next mo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business