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40 Percent Of Whitmer’s 2020 Gas Tax Hike Won’t Support Roads

It backfills money governor would remove from transportation budget to pay for other state spending

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Failed Company Skipped On $2.1 Million State Loan, Wants More

Michigan corporate subsidy officials support extended benefits for firm’s successor

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Ban It? Tax It? Leave It Alone? Michigan Cities And Airbnb

Short term home-sharing rentals don’t fit usual categories

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Seven in 10 Detroit Students ‘Chronically Absent’

Statewide, the number is two in 10

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Despite Government Broadband’s Poor Record, Farmington Hills Considers It

Oakland County city already saturated with competing high-speed private providers

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Average Teacher Pay In Highest-Paying School District: $81,168

Walled Lake and Utica districts keep top two positions for another year

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Bill Aims At Teen Vaping, Hits Adult Smokers

$1.50-per-pack cigarette tax hike would bring in more for general fund and medical welfare

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Closing Pipeline Means Higher Heating Costs For Yoopers

Dueling cost estimates differ only on how much more

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More State-Owned Vehicles For Fewer State Employees

Explanations include fewer workers tied to an office, cheaper than paying people to use own cars

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Third Time A Charm For ‘Raise The Age’ Juvenile Justice Reform?

‘Who pays?’ stalled bipartisan effort in previous two legislatures, but there appears a will to move it now

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Respected Michigan Research Group Finds School Spending Up Since 1995

Citizens Research Council paints very different picture than recent MSU report

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Lansing Stadium Subsidy: Big Promises, Little Information

City claims massive return on investment; experts say no way

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Watch The Fine Print On ‘Green Jobs’ Claims

Speculation often treated as fact, and definition may be only in eye of beholder

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Taxpayer Backlash Coming Over Billions In Amazon Subsidies

But the rebellion against corporate handouts hasn’t reached Michigan

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If At First ... Legislature Looking To Rein In Auto Insurance

Special interests halted past reform efforts

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Medical Welfare Programs Look To Price Another Year Of Life

Is a beneficiary’s ‘quality-adjusted life year’ worth the cost of a drug?

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Court: OK For Wayne County To Seize Man’s Car For 3 Years

Legislators considering changes to state asset forfeiture law

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State Employee Morale Drops As State Spending Rises

Gov. Whitmer is concerned

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Media Smokestack Images And Air Pollution Spin

Those billowing white clouds coming out aren’t what you may think

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Numbers Are In: Fossil Fuels Kept Furnaces Running During Polar Vortex

Wind production fell 79 percent over three coldest days

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No Surprise: Public Spending Lower After Deep ‘One-State Recession’

However, overall state spending has increased nine consecutive years

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Drivers Will Pay More At Pump If Oil, Gas Pipeline Shut Down

Estimates vary on the effects of closing Mackinac Straits pipeline

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Will Your Furnace Turn On When Utilities Abandon Gas And Coal?

Polar vortex exposes risk with all-renewables approach to energy

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Having Won Once, Reformers Want Even-Year Grand Rapids Elections

One official says their lower turnout makes odd-year elections look like suppression

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How Much to Tax is Different From How to Spend

Trash tax a lesson in priorities and revenue

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