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A national group filed complaints in Michigan this week against several nonprofits saying they bankrolled progressive ballot drives in Michigan while keeping their donors secret.
Bloomfield Township businessman Kevin Rinke is arguably the closest thing to a traditional Republican in the gubernatorial primary. He’s the only candidate who hasn’t fully embraced Trump’s election conspiracy claims but is attempting to woo voters who believe the former president.
The Republican-led House and Senate seeks to reverse a lower court’s injunction blocking enforcement of a 1931 law that bans abortions in Michigan except to save the life of the mother. It’s the latest twist in a web of suits over abortion access.
Kelley on Thursday entered “not guilty” pleas to four misdemeanor charges stemming from the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The case is unlikely to be resolved by the Aug. 2 Republican primary.
With less than a month before the primary election, the gloves came off in a GOP debate, with one candidate arguing another is “bought and paid for” by “the DeVos empire,” and another suggesting a bold tax cut plan is a mirage.
The campaign collected almost twice the required number of valid signatures for the issue to appear on the November ballot, said campaign co-chair Linh Song.
For the third time in five years, Michigan legislators have agreed on a package of grants that includes millions to help develop a commercial and residential project by a private real estate company tied to Robert Schostak, the former state GOP chairman.
Plugging sensitive reproductive health data, such as information on menstrual cycles, into a tracking app could be used in prosecutions if the state once again bans abortion, the Attorney General warned.
Although marijuana is legal, many companies require drug screening for employment. Michigan would join 18 other states in banning the sale of synthetic urine designed beat the tests.
With Roe overturned, two candidates for Michigan governor want the Supreme Court to overturn a same-sex marriage decision and reinstate a dormant state ban.
Gov. Whitmer and GOP leaders are shelving tax cut talks to finish the budget. But any tax relief will have to wait, as cuts are shelved despite a $9 billion surplus.
In a decision transparency advocates are celebrating, Michigan must disclose the full value of tax credits it awarded to the automaker more than a decade ago but still owes on.
From zombie flicks to fights over ‘sexualizing’ children and school equity initiatives, Tudor Dixon has suddenly become the GOP establishment's pick for Michigan governor.
Reproductive Freedom for All, a ballot measure to codify abortion rights into Michigan’s Constitution, says it’s experienced a surge in interest since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe.
The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously rejected the use of a one-judge grand jury by Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office to indict the ex-governor and other Flint water crisis defendants. Snyder’s lawyers blasted prosecutors as “vindictive.”
An injunction suspending enforcement of Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortions only applies to the state, an attorney for prosecutors contends, revealing the tenuousness of the law after the Supreme Court decision.
A conservative majority of justices overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which established a federal right to abortion. In a series of opinions, the nine-member court revealed deep divisions within their ranks.
Justice Clarence Thomas writes that laws legalizing same-sex marriage and contraception should be revisited. If federal protections end, old Michigan laws could take effect.