10 Years Of Michigan Capitol Confidential Online
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Rough Estimate Puts Cost Of 25-Year Whitmer Road Debt Well Above $1 Billion
State has money to fix roads now without borrowing Read more
Using State's Credit Card To Fix Roads Now Means 25 Years Of Payments
Money will come out of tomorrow’s road repair budgets Read more
Auditors Discover Oversight Failure At Detroit Fire Department
More than 200 former employees had department fuel cards Read more
Some Basis For Voters' Suspicion No Tax Hike Needed To Fix Roads
53.3% say state has enough to fix roads; fiscal agency says $897 million is available Read more
All On Its Own, Flint Was A Financial Basket Case For Years
Evidence from years gone by contradicts current effort to blame past Flint misgovernance on state Read more
Detroit Schools Spent $250K Sending Students, Staff To Italy
State’s largest district spent $961,534 on out-of-state travel; second-largest district spent just $18,397 Read more
No Debt, No Tax Hike: Michigan Can Add $897 Million To Road Budget Right Now
Legislators and governor just have to say ‘yes’ Read more
Michigan College’s $98k Equity And Inclusion Officer To Political Opponents: ‘F**k Trump’
Diversity has its limits at Kellogg Community College Read more
Bans And Bad Feelings After ‘Stealth’ Odd-Year, August School Tax Hike Election
Superintendent bans two residents from U.P. school property without prior notice Read more
Bill To Increase State Transparency Could Reduce It
Wouldn’t be first time the legislative process worked against open government Read more
Open Records Law Request? See What The Lawyers Say (You Pay)
Tuscola County raises stakes for obtaining public records Read more
State Worker Salaries Stagnate Due to Skyrocketing Cost Of Benefits
Costs $122,959 to employ a state worker; $54,845 of that is benefits Read more
Change In Basic Water Use Law Could Hit Michigan Farms
Bill aims at particular water bottler, could restrict fruit and vegetable growers Read more
Strong Demand For Government-Owned Broadband – From Government Officials
Two more Oakland cities well-served by commercial broadband looking to enter the business Read more
These Teachers Earning More Under ‘Right To Work For Less’
Their union is getting less, though Read more
Motorists Already Doing More For Roads Without Another Tax Hike
'Nothing?' Drivers paying $298 million more gas tax + $226 million more license plate tax in 2020 Read more
Gov. Whitmer Says Michigan Carmaker Jobs Up; They’re Not
And subsidized job projections not the same as actual jobs Read more
Moving Company Reports More Customers Leave Michigan Than Move Here
State will likely lose another seat in Congress after next census Read more
Motorists Still Paying For Engler And Granholm’s Road Debt
Payments on those bonds use transportation tax dollars that would otherwise go to fix today’s roads Read more
Water Bottler A Drop In The Trillions Of Gallons That Fall On Michigan
State appears awash in water Read more
‘The Nation’ Blames Michigan GOP For Cuts In School Budgets Signed By Dem Governor
Cuts came during single-state recession; funding only higher since GOP gained trifecta in 2011 Read more
Bill Extends Criminal Sanctions To Eavesdropping Via Siri, Alexa, Smart TVs
Law’s definitions of eavesdropping, surveillance, secret records date from 1966 Read more
More Inaccurate Media On Amount Michigan Taxpayers Pay For Schools
Reports do reveal what school establishments want public to think about how much they get Read more
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