Mystery company to take $259M from Michigan taxpayers
Dec 11, 2024 · Michigan taxpayers are slated to give $259 million to a mystery company to build a semiconductor plant near Mundy Township in Genessee County.
Michigan Legislature approves bill to extend, boost …
Dec 17, 2024 · The Legislature approved Senate Bill 40 Dec. 13 to increase unemployment insurance benefits. If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signs the bill into law, it will also increase the amount of time a person can claim unemployment from 20 weeks to 26 weeks. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Paul Wojno, D-Warren, would ...
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Fees for duck, deer hunting could increase after lame-duck …
Dec 12, 2024 · Legislation in the lame-duck session would increase the fees hunters and anglers must pay for state-required licenses, which would be set on a path for automatic increases.
Federal bailout gives $635 million to carpenters union pension plan
Nov 22, 2024 · The federal government is spending $635 million in taxpayer funds to bail out a multiemployer pension fund for a Detroit carpenters union. Pension experts warn that the bailout comes with little or no accountability and no indication that it won’t happen again.
There’s something wrong with Union Township: Part 3
Jan 3, 2025 · Officials of Union Charter Township slowed the development of a gymnastics center in 2023, marking another in a series of hurdles that have stymied development in the Isabella County community.
Feedback mostly opposes Grand Rapids climate plan
Dec 9, 2024 · Most of the feedback given to the Grand Rapids climate action plan opposes it, according to public comment received through a records request.. The Wege Foundation pitched the plan for Michigan’s second-largest city, which houses about 200,000 people.
Workers at Mt. Clemens tooling company are on the way to …
Oct 4, 2024 · Workers at a hydraulic tooling company in Mt. Clemens are one step closer to decertifying their union after submitting enough signatures to the National Labor Relations Board to trigger a vote on representation.
Michigan lawmaker pitches fee on museums, concerts
Dec 16, 2024 · Michigan lawmaker pitches fee on museums, concerts Rep. condemns $3 ‘fun tax’ on tickets costing more than $30
The UAW’s strike on General Motors might haunt workers
Dec 3, 2024 · The United Auto Workers at General Motors received a 33% pay raise as a result of last year’s strike, but GM announced another round of layoffs on Nov. 15.