Brandon Jessup, CEO of Michigan Forward, says the group is close to turning in petitions with enough signatures to put the state's controversial emergency manager law before Michigan voters on the November ballot.
Michigan's governor argued the law, amended under his watch to expand the powers of state-appointed emergency managers, is helping communities deal with their financial problems.
As hundreds of marchers demonstrated outside the gates of Gov. Rick Snyder's private residence near Ann Arbor, loudly chanting in protest of Michigan's emergency manager law, the Rev. Charles E. Williams II had a quiet conversation with the governor's chief of staff.
Protesters are expected to march to Gov. Rick Snyder's Ann Arbor area home on Monday to rally against the state's emergency manager law.
When speaking to the Ypsilanti school board Monday, state Rep. David Rutledge issued a warning to trustees and district leaders: Get the district on solid financial footing or face installation of an emergency manager by the state. Rutledge (D-Ypsilanti) has two school districts in his district facing the possibility of ...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will take questions May 13 from public radio listeners across the state on education reform, the state budget and the economy during a special broadcast being labeled "A Conversation With Governor Rick Snyder."
It's customary in Lansing for a lawmaker to send colleagues in the Legislature a gift from his or her district after getting a first piece of legislation passed. So it came as no surprise today that state Rep. Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, followed through with a special bottle of wine delivered ...
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