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Especially following the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare organizations face added pressure on how to share their patients’ health information to promote better outcomes for patients. At the same time, organizations need to think of cyber programs to protect their patients and clients because they are being targeted by cyber-attackers trying to access their data.

State lawmakers are expected to debate legislation this week that will be affecting restaurant owners and some workers. Northern Michigan Senator Wayne Schmidt

Some Michigan lawmakers are eying changes to the state’s primary election dates as the current legislative session enters its final days.

Expanding the credit is widely popular in concept but a deal to extend more help to the working poor has long been an elusive goal.

LANSING — New legislation would stop a potential jump in the lower minimum wage that is paid to Michigan workers who make tips and boost the state's existing $9.87 regular minimum wage to $12 an hour.The restaurant industry, which has warned of ramifications if wages go up in February under…

A bill introduced in the Michigan Senate would increase the state's minimum wage, while also stopping a drastic increase to wages earned by tipped workers.

Expanding the credit is widely popular in concept but a deal to extend more help to the working poor has long been an elusive goal.

Expanding the credit is widely popular in concept but a deal to extend more help to the working poor has long been an elusive goal.

A final push is underway to get the state Legislature to expand a tax break for working poor people before the end of the year. Rick Pluta explains.

Michigan would move its 2024 presidential primary from March to February and become an early-voting state under legislation that was overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate on Tuesday.