Michigan food stamp fraud spiked nearly 400% from 2023 to 2024
Criminals pocketed $75,000 in food stamps over three days in 2025
Michigan House asks taxpayers to fund 800 pork projects
Total more than doubles current record for earmarks
Michigan ratepayers pick up energy tab of 55,732 households
State’s net-zero goals will raise energy costs, expert says
Five years later, Whitmer can unilaterally shut down the state
No law prevents the executive branch’s unchecked power
Livonia to pitch $150M bond proposal on Aug. 5
25-year tax hike aims to construct buildings, fight population decline
Michigan has referred 24 people for prosecution over wetland laws over 3 years
State environmental agency referred 24 people to Attorney General Dana Nessel for prosecution
Michigan voters reject most May 6 school bond measures
Large-ticket requests fail in Midland, Mt. Clemens, win in Dexter, Ferndale
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spent $204,444 on March trip to UK, and Ireland
Eight-person delegation visited Guinness brewery and other attractions
Mackinac Center sues Flint Community Schools
Suit alleges troubled district violated Freedom of Information Act over staff travel records
Trump administration sues Michigan over climate litigation against oil and gas companies
Lawsuit cites Michigan Capitol Confidential story thrice
Michigan schools seek $1.6 billion in new public debt May 6
Residents of 31 school districts will vote on school bonds
Dues-skim union has no bargaining power for home care providers
SEIU can lobby but can’t negotiate contracts for disabled-caregiver stipends, says labor law expert
Michigan cities paid up to $63 million in police settlements from 2022 to 2025
More than $40 million will be paid to six men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 121 years
Grand Ledge may let anyone inspect residents’ pipes
City has used ordinance to inspect thousands of homes, businesses
Two Democratic lawmakers agree: AG Nessel sicced government on business owners during pandemic
Tucker Carlson blasts Michigan’s attorney general over her 2021 arrest of a business owner
Owosso barber still battling $9K in fines from Whitmer lockdown
77-year-old was one of six hairdressers state fined for cutting hair in 2020
Caregivers protest union effort to skim home helpers’ pay
Lawmakers, not unions, approve pay increases for home help workers
Park Township short-term rental owners seek grandfathered properties
Government has allowed short-term rentals despite a 1974 law banning them
Michigan dentist drills into implicit bias training rule
State agency, not lawmakers, created requirement on 400,000 workers in medical and dental fields
State climate conference to tout clean energy plans that will raise electricity costs
Michigan residents must buy 1.95 million more electric vehicles in next 5 years to achieve state goal
EGLE swoops in on Mundy megasite
Great Lakes department alleges wetland violations at site that is getting $259 million subsidy despite having no buyer
Wayne, Oakland counties paid $11,066 for UAE trip
Whitmer brought along 20 people on first journey to Gulf monarchy
Michigan’s updated pandemic playbook heavy on lockdowns, light on proof
Government can’t show its work for emergency plan
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