Gina Nelson remembers hearing the stories of her grandfather trying to organize automotive workers in the dead of night in the 1930s, the fear of assault by anti-union foes always present.
Roughly 29,500 unemployed Michigan workers could lose their jobless benefits this month because the state no longer qualifies for a certain federal extended jobless benefits program, state officials announced Friday.
House Democrats unveiled an ethics reform plan Thursday as a citizen watchdog group, Common Cause Michigan, launched a new website to press for more state government transparency.
The budget proposal that Gov. Rick Snyder will deliver Thursday isn't expected to contain the sweeping tax changes and spending cuts that made last year's plan such a change from the past. Still, it's creating some anxious moments for school officials and local government leaders waiting to hear how and when the cuts they took in the current budget might be reversed.
The Michigan Democratic Party is changing course, allowing Democrats to vote in the Feb. 28 presidential primary and also participate in the May caucus.
"I delivered for you while in the state House, and I will deliver for you in the state Senate" -- Former state Rep. Ken Daniels, a Detroit Democrat, on his 2010 campaign website, spotted by freep.com reader Michael Lesich on Wednesday, the day federal officials announced he had been indicted in the bust of a giant drug-dealing and money-laundering enterprise.
Americans serving overseas in the military would be able to more easily cast absentee ballots for local and state elections under a bill introduced this week by state Rep. Rick Outman, R-Six Lakes.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
