Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) asked the state demographer Friday during the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC) if killing Michigan's income tax could bring 1 million people back to the state.

News reporters and members of the public who find and expose “waste, fraud, abuse, misappropriation, or other misuse of taxpayer dollars,” could win a financial award after Rep. Joseph Aragona (R-Clinton Township) announced his new bill yesterday.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed bipartisan bills Thursday to remove the mandatory essay portion of the Michigan Merit Exam given to mostly 11th graders and end the requirement to place test scores on school transcripts.

Rep. Penelope Tsernoglou (D-East Lansing) directly challenged the chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on whether he would support Senate-passed legislation that would stop the Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) from collecting non-fraud payments improperly paid out during COVID.

All Democratic state senators who can return next year are supporting Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-Trenton)'s leadership bid in the caucus and are co-hosting a "Leadership Lunch" for him on June 4.

Rep. Matt Longjohn (D-Portage) hit a grand slam and Rep. Dylan Wegela (D-Garden City) went 5-for-5 at the plate to lead the Democrats to their first Legislative Softball Game win in four years.

A judge on Tuesday blocked Michigan from sending more taxpayer money to two baseball stadium projects, ruling the earmarks may have violated the state Constitution because they lacked the required supermajority support in the Legislature.

A Glengariff Group poll released Tuesday found that Democrat Jocelyn Benson is consolidating her base, causing independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan to pull more from the Republicans.

A former Detroit judge who has been prohibited from serving on the bench for six years has not given up her fight to get on the 2026 ballot.

The recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais has sent some states across the nation racing to redistrict their maps. With the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC), though, Michigan can’t do so without another constitutional amendment. MIRS asked several people questions regarding the recent decision to get their opinion.

U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) fired back at gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson’s claims he violated election law for implying he’s the incumbent governor and not a candidate on his campaign material.

The three Democrats seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) in MI-10 – one of the country's most competitive battlegrounds – were set to debate next Tuesday until organizers canceled it.

The 2026 Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference will host a debate between the three Democrats running for U.S. Senate and will play host to the policy discussion over data centers.

Rachel Keys is entering the 108th House District race as the lone Democrat.

Five petition circulators whose names appeared in a 2024 Bureau of Elections memo identifying petition sheets with “clear indications of fraud” also circulated petitions for Republican gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson's this year, according to information shared with MIRS.

Politically connected entrepreneur Fay Beydoun has been charged with 16 counts in connection with the way she spent a $20 million legislative grant.

West Michigan Republican powerhouse Dick DeVos is beginning to make fundraising calls in support of gubernatorial candidate John James, MIRS has learned, a development that will help the Congressman push back with paid media down the line against primary opponent Perry Johnson and his bottomless pockets.

Saginaw City Fire Captain Chedrick Greene won in the special 35th state Senate race Tuesday night by 19 points (58.87% to 39.42%), restoring Democrats' 20-seat majority in the chamber. It also marks Democrats' 27th win out of 39 special legislative and congressional elections that have taken place so far this year throughout the country.

'Tis the season. While Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sharing her words of wisdom during a commencement speech for the graduates of Michigan State University this week, 1,300 miles west, the president of Colorado University was doing the same thing.

One of the Republicans' two likely state Supreme Court nominees, Oscoda Judge Cassandra L. Morse-Bills, is being accused in a whistleblower suit of improperly exchanging text messages with a juror in a sex assault case.

A transgender candidate in the 2nd House District should be kicked off the ballot because her new name was never made official, according to a complaint filed this week by the candidate's opponent, former Rep. Frank Liberati.

Progressive-minded advocacy groups are using mostly unreported “dark money” to fuel their ballot proposal to stop utilities and government contractors from spending money on politics, according to finance reports released this week.

A Royal Oak woman is taking her fight to get her name on the Aug. 4 Republican primary ballot for U.S. Senate to the federal appeals court.

Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General, and Washtenaw County are alleged to have violated the Campaign Finance Act’s prohibition against using public resources for political purposes.

Senate Democrats Wednesday adopted their $63 billion budget proposal for state departments and government programs, which Republicans protested with more than 45 failed amendment proposals.

The House Government Operations Committee is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday to take up the 10 bills and a resolution that makes up the House Republicans' $5 billion property tax reduction plan that has received the acronym HELP UP (Hall Effectively Lowering Property Taxes and Utility Payments).

A new survey of likely Republican primary voters shows U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) holding an 18-point lead in the 2026 GOP gubernatorial race, while also highlighting deep engagement among the party’s base and strong alignment with President Donald Trump.

History was not made at last week’s filing deadline. Lansing’s Elyon Badger did not turn in the 1,000 signatures needed to make the August ballot in the 7th Congressional District.

Lawmakers this year are plowing through the budget process at a pace not seen in more than a decade, with both chambers advancing spending plans weeks earlier than usual. And in one case, months earlier.

Michigan's cybersecurity team is fending off roughly 4 million attempted attacks a day — but even with layers of protection, experts say the state's data systems are far from bulletproof.

While the House last week passed a budget slashing 62% of state funding from Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan (UofM), a national survey came out suggesting 78% of college grads believe their degrees were worth the cost.

There are a lot of folks in town and across Michigan whose names you'd recognize who are supporting independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Duggan, but don't want to be overtly public about it.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Leonard announced on Facebook that he is withdrawing from the race after taking an “honest look at the path forward.”

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug.

The Perry Johnson campaign filed a lawsuit Wednesday against gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) and his campaign, alleging election law violations for not making it clear that James is a gubernatorial candidate, and not the governor.

House Republicans muscled their Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget plan (HB 5619) through the chamber Wednesday night, marking the earliest that a first-run omnibus has passed the House in at least a decade. It follows a cycle in which the House's first budget bill wasn't passed until late summer.

A House subcommittee advanced a Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 spending bill on Tuesday that includes a $145.3 million fund for legislative “pork” projects known formally as the Legislative Spending Transparency Fund (LSTF).

Former House Speaker Joe Tate (D-Detroit) will finish his term as minority vice chair of the House Appropriations Committee, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) announced Tuesday, saying his predecessor is “highly respected and many Democrats have been coming to me recently saying they had made a mistake in changing leaders.”

For years, he’s been a fixture outside Lansing City Hall and the Capitol, serving up hot dogs to lawmakers, lobbyists and reporters alike.

Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive U.S. Senate candidate, has apologized to opponent and U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Birmingham) who was booed at during Sunday's Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) endorsement convention.

Being a politician means meeting with people, talking with people, and being scrutinized by people. It can all seem akin to the celebrity fishbowl, with the extra step of being held to account by the people who elected you.

Since the turn of the century, if a winning party's gubernatorial or presidential candidate managed at least 53 percent of the popular vote in a Michigan election, their entire slate of education board nominees all won.

Former Detroit public health official Abdul El-Sayed and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D-Royal Oak) are in a statistical dead heat in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary based on the results of a new public opinion poll released Thursday morning by Emerson College that has El-Sayed at 24% and McMorrow at 23.6%

The House higher education budget advancing out of the Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday morning would cut funding for Michigan State University and University of Michigan by roughly 63%, redirecting much of the savings toward student scholarship programs.

April 15 was more than just Tax Day, it was also the federal campaign finance quarterly deadline and the numbers show what’s going on behind the scenes in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House races across the state.

With U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) announcing plans to eliminate Michigan's 6% income tax, the entire six-person Republican field is now on record supporting getting rid of a major state-levied tax.

Term-limited Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Bloomfield Twp.) sponsored his last-ever Holocaust Remembrance Day resolution, SR 105, in the Michigan Capitol Tuesday. He said that in today's politics, both parties have an antisemitism problem.

If lawmakers were expecting a slow return from spring break, they didn’t get it. The Republican-led House opened its first session back by advancing one of its most polarizing proposals — the bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.