Government/Public Policy/Politics News
05/18/12 Public safety and personal management responsibilities threaded through much of the discussion among the "Big 4" panel of regional leaders today at a meeting in Birmingham.
05/18/12 DETROIT (AP) — A member of the team that declared Detroit was in financial stress has been named to a panel helping the city pull through its fiscal crisis.
05/17/12 LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Senate has passed legislation that would end pensions for newly hired public school employees and switch them into a 401(k)-style retirement plan.
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder said today that he's considering fallback options in case the Michigan Legislature doesn't back a plan to build a new bridge from Detroit to Windsor, including seeking an "interlocal agreement" with Canada that wouldn't require legislative approval.
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — Michigan's budget will have about $300 million more this year than state economists predicted in January, a combination of higher-than-expected tax payments and fewer people receiving Medicaid and other state services.
05/16/12 AMC Entertainment Inc. won a liquor license transfer for the AMC Forum 30 theater on divided support in Sterling Heights and should receive a similar license for the AMC Livonia 20 by mail this week.
05/16/12 The state of Michigan has signed an agreement with Michigan Health Connect, a Grand Rapids-based health information exchange, to allow doctors and hospitals to send electronic child and adult immunization records to the state’s online immunization registry.
05/16/12 LANSING (AP) — More online charter schools will be allowed in Michigan under a law signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Snyder that he and other supporters say will provide more choices, although critics think the changes are premature and lack quality control.
05/15/12 The Macomb County Board of Commissioners on Thursday will consider whether to accept or appeal a judge's ruling in favor of County Executive Mark Hackel in a lawsuit over county contracting decisions.
05/15/12 LANSING (AP) — The House and Senate fiscal agencies have come out with their revenue estimates ahead of Wednesday’s revenue estimating conference, and the news isn’t all good.
05/15/12 DETROIT (AP) — The White House is planning a gathering in Detroit that’s focused on helping urban entrepreneurs.
05/15/12 DETROIT (AP) — Michigan is celebrating the opening of a new road designed to get thousands of trucks off secondary streets near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit.
05/14/12 Brose North America Inc. announced today that it will acquire a former Mopar plant in New Boston.
05/13/12 Most people agree that something should be done to eliminate money as a vital element in the American presidential selection process.
05/11/12 Waterford Township-based Pentastar Aviation LLC has been approved to fly direct departures from its executive terminal at Oakland County International Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
05/11/12 DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has levied $107,000 in fines against four companies after the death of a painter who fell while working on the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor.
05/10/12 Gov. Rick Snyder met privately in Windsor this morning with top Canadian and U.S. officials to discuss the proposed publicly owned Detroit River bridge.
05/10/12 Highland Park Public Schools Emergency Manager Jack Martin will become the city of Detroit’s new CFO, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced today.
05/10/12 LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Senate has passed a package of bills that would roll back the personal property taxes that businesses pay by hundreds of millions of dollars.
05/10/12 LANSING (AP) — State authorities are accusing a Detroit-area man of fleecing people out of $800,000 by posing as someone who could modify their mortgages.
05/10/12 LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Department of Transportation says it's using digitally encrypted electronic signatures for construction contractors as part of an effort to save paper and money.
05/10/12 A markup to a 2013 defense bill that cleared the House Armed Services Committee early this morning would preserve planes and jobs targeted for elimination at Selfridge Air National Guard Base for at least one year.
05/09/12 Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, former city Treasurer Jeffrey Beasley and MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors LLC, a former adviser to the city's police and fire pension fund, have been charged with federal crimes by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
05/09/12 A bond issue today for the Detroit Public Schools probably will save even more than the $23 million in accelerated bond payments that were set to begin June 1, under an agreement with Bermuda-based Assured Guaranty Ltd.
05/09/12 ALLEN PARK (AP) — Voters in Allen Park defeated a proposal to help cover $2.6 million a year in bond payments for a failed movie studio development.
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