Michigan lawmakers have only a few months to create a budget for the next fiscal year, address the Medicaid program and enact criminal justice reforms.
In 2019, lawmakers dialed back taxpayer support for business subsidies, perhaps reflecting a change in thinking.
A legislator from northern Michigan wants the state to restart taxpayer funding of the Pure Michigan advertising campaign. Lawmakers should let its funding stay at the current level: zero.
A conflict between a Republican Legislature and a Democratic governor led to restrained growth in the state budget.
Michigan has reformed some of the many licenses it requires for people to hold a job. Lawmakers should continue that work in the new year.
A set of regulations and laws that a high school student proposed as part of a biology class suggests that Michigan schools should take a closer look at the environmental impact of renewable energy sources when teaching about the benefits.
Without the Legislature’s timely intervention, the commission’s decision threatened to make it more difficult for cancer patients in rural areas of Michigan to access this treatment.
Some Michigan classrooms lack a teacher with full credentials, even though many people with teaching credentials aren’t teaching. Rather than focusing heavily on producing more teachers, the state should find ways to entice some of those teachers into the classroom.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was right to veto funding for the Pure Michigan advertising campaign in the new state budget.
While Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made Michigan’s roads the centerpiece of her election campaign, her veto of extra money for road repair shows that her most important priority is to increase how much state government taxes Michigan residents.
The new ban on flavored vaping products is harmful to public health and respect for law.
Michigan’s two big electric utilities cite their build-up of solar facilities as evidence of their environmental concern. But solar facilities pose significant environmental challenges, which the companies have not adequately prepared for.
Even if the governor and lawmakers can’t agree on whether to raise the gas tax, that’s no reason to shut down state government.
Most local governments in Michigan need to shore up the pension systems they have for their retirees.
Employers should have a larger role in shaping career and technical education programs.
Lawmakers who want to spend more taxpayer money on roads can find another extra $1 billion by using these 13 suggestions.
The state’s Schools of Choice program does not merit the attacks it recently received on a national scale.
A bill in Congress to increase the national minimum wage would harm young and inexperienced workers who need on-the-job experience.
Michigan should give parents of special needs students more say over their children’s education.
