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The state’s minimum wage and paid sick leave laws were on the line with legal arguments Tuesday before the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Two recounts are happening this week in Kent County: One on Proposal 3 on reproductive rights, and the other on the GRPS board of education race.

A ruling over the constitutionality of "adopt-and-amend" will have ramifications for Michigans minimum wage and paid sick time laws.

The fate of a significant increase in the states minimum wage is in the hands of a three-judge Court of Appeals panel,

The legality of a Republican maneuver to weaken minimum-wage and paid-sick-leave ballot initiatives in 2018 went before the Michigan Court of Appeals, where lawyers sparred Tuesday over whether legislators could act during that session without thwarting the people's will and the state constitution…

Maine, one of the demographically whitest states in the US is about to have a more diverse legisature.

National Public Radio interviewed Mark Brewer, professor of political science at the University of Maine, about Maine’s more diverse income state legislature. Brewer told NPR that increased diversity in an elected body can have a measurable impact on policy. Brewer also noted the fact that all five of the new Black lawmakers in the Maine […]

Corks are popping from apple cider bottles all over Michigan as the perennial Midwestern battleground celebrates its entry into the exclusive club of early presidential primary states and readies for

Flathead County Commissioners hosted the meeting to educate residents on the regional septage site’s proposed Lower Valley location

Ken Jones, the schools current chancellor, will become the new president of Oklahoma Christian University, effective May 2023.