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By Rick Pluta and Laura Weber

Public employee unions are making a last-ditch effort to block a plan to give more authority to emergency managers who take over the finances of troubled local...

By Rick Pluta

Several hundred demonstrators
braved cold and snow to gather in front of the state Capitol today. It was both
a gesture of support for Wisconsin protesters, and to...

Correction: Story updated Saturday, 2/26 to correct Ray Holman's name.

By Laura Weber

Union members and labor supporters plan to rally at the state Capitol this weekend in...

By Rick Pluta

Labor protests continue for a second day at the state Capitol in Lansing. Hundreds of unionized firefighters and police officers marched on the Capitol, calling on the Legislature...

By Laura Weber

People from opposing viewpoints on Governor Rick Snyder's budget proposal are expected to rally in Lansing tomorrow. Tea Partiers, state workers and senior citizens are...

By Laura Weber

Only four-of-38 members of the current Michigan state Senate are women. There have not been so few female senators since 1998. And those four are talking about banding...

By Laura Weber

New and returning lawmakers were at the state Capitol today to be sworn into the 2011 Legislative session. It began at noon.

After lawmakers were sworn in and chose...

By Laura Weber

Leaders in the Legislature have decided to add one last unexpected day to the lame-duck calendar at the state Capitol.

A couple procedural mix-ups will bring lawmakers...

By Laura Weber

New legislative leaders have been chosen for the coming year at the state Capitol. House Republicans were the last group to elect their next majority leaders. They chose...

By Laura Weber

Democratic state Senator Gretchen Whitmer was elected by her peers to be the next Senate Minority Leader. She is the first woman chosen to be a leader in the...

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