LANSING — Members of the Michigan Senate on Thursday voted to advance a supplemental funding bill providing $71 million in state funds to support food assistance with federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, or SNAP, set to come to a halt on Saturday. ...
LANSING — The House Committee on Families and Veterans considered two bills Tuesday, put forward by state Rep. Laurie Pohutsky (D-Livonia) and state Rep. Angela Rigas (R-Alto), HB 4530 and HB 4531. The first would change the required time frame for mental health providers to respond to a ...
LANSING — While members of the board overseeing Michigan’s energy resources consider long-term plans for the energy grid, residents from across the state joined together in Auburn Hills to demand protections from data centers. The Michigan Public Service Commission took public comment ...
DETROIT — Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan, who is running an independent campaign for Michigan governor in the 2026 election cycle, is gaining traction among voters, according to a new poll released Friday from Schoen Cooperman Research. The internal poll of 600 likely November 2026 voters in ...
LANSING — At 1 a.m. Thursday morning, Symone Wilkes, a Detroit resident and mother of two young sons, received a loud alert on her phone. It was her MI Bridges app — the site through which state benefits are provided — alerting her that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
LANSING — Four marijuana-related bills were up for consideration before a House panel on Thursday, with one aiming to upend rules on the legal amount of regulated marijuana a person is allowed to possess, both in plant and concentrate form. Members of the House Regulatory Reform Committee ...