Jonathan Oosting

The petition’s ban on private donations for elections would also bar churches from providing free space for polling places and severely limit — if not outright prohibit — the use of volunteers in elections work.

New emails and testimony shows former President Donald Trump and allies continued to spread false claims about Michigan election results even after Homeland Security and Justice officials debunked a report on Antrim County voting machines.

The Democratic governor says she’ll require contractors to pay workers union wages on state projects. Lawsuits likely as Republicans repealed a similar mandate in 2018.

Fights over absentee applications and rules foreshadow a bigger skirmish over wholesale election law changes sought by the GOP.

A state budget praised by both sides is causing widespread confusion and angst because of provisions that threatened funding for agencies that impose school mask mandates.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson wants to codify absentee signature matching requirements for election clerks, but Republicans claim the rule would make it ‘nearly impossible’ to invalidate a forgery.

The state wants to be a leader in vehicle electrification, but it wasn’t considered for Ford’s record-setting battery manufacturing investment. That leaves some weighing what the state needs to change to be competitive.

Republican efforts to ban vaccine mandates are out. The governor also vetoed abortion alternative spending. But 175 pork projects remain.

After months of railing against the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a six-part plan to reform the system and “fix customer service.”

Should the national popular vote decide the winner of future presidential elections? Michigan voters could get the chance to weigh in. Former heads of the Michigan GOP and Democratic parties are backing a potential 2022 ballot initiative for the state to join The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

As party leaders meet on Mackinac Island, activists rail against the elite at a northern Michigan farm. Can Republicans find peace before 2022?

A petition may soon hit the streets to tighten Michigan voting and election laws. Here’s what the GOP initiative may mean for Michigan.

Maps were supposed to be completed by Friday by Michigan’s new independent citizen redistricting commission. Supporters say Census delays made that impossible, but critics contend the panel is rife with dysfunction.

Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and GOP leaders say they have a deal to keep the lights on in state government for another year.

Macomb County Rep. Steve Marino is stripped of committee assignments and police are investigating threat claims.

Republican majority advanced bills that seek to bar local school mask mandates and allow broad parental waivers. Gov. Whitmer is likely to veto the proposals should they reach her.

Voters Not Politicians, the group that mobilized grassroots volunteers to fight gerrymandering in 2018, is launching a multi-phase campaign to fight restrictive GOP voting rules and is considering a 2022 ballot proposal of its own. The Michigan Democratic Party, meanwhile, has a “team of lawyers” ready to fight the GOP initiative in court.

Is this legal? How will it be enforced? The federal rule isn’t yet written, but here’s what we know about the test and vaccination requirement for employers with more than 100 workers.

Michigan is flush with federal stimulus cash, but annual budget talks are headed to the wire. One potential sticking point: Higher education spending, because of university mask mandates.

More than 6,000 businesses employing about half of the state’s workers are likely affected by the president's rule requiring vaccines or weekly tests for companies with more than 100 workers.