Mitchell Rivard

A letter from Business Leaders for Michigan which encouraged state lawmakers to support the budget framework agreement between Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon (D-Redford Township) and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester), has some Michigan university president’s running for political cover.

LANSING — The Democratic-controlled House Appropriations Committee split along party lines to pass a bill to fund the Michigan Promise Scholarship — at the tune of $120 million. The move comes just one day after a joint House-Senate Committee voted 4-2 to eliminate funding the scholarships, and two days after law makers and college students [...]

LANSING — A committee made up of members of the Michigan House and Senate voted to eliminated the Michigan Promise Scholarships on Wednesday on a 4-2 vote. Sen. Jim Barcia of Bay City and Rep. Joan Bauer of Lansing, both Democrats, cast the the two votes to continue the scholarship program.
The move comes less [...]

LANSING — With the shot clock running on a final budget, state lawmakers joined Michigan college students at the State Capitol on Tuesday to demand that legislators protect the Michigan Promise Scholarship.

Controversial Fox News Channel commentator and radio host Glenn Beck will address the annual meeting of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night at a hotel located on the campus of Michigan State University.
Beck’s appearance has riled up campus groups, such as the MSU College Democrats, who intend on protesting the controversial speaker. Mitchell [...]

LANSING — Michigan State University College Democrats are furious with the university’s student paper for a staff editorial published Tuesday supporting cuts to the Michigan Promise scholarship fund.
In The State News, editors opined that eliminating the Michigan Promise Scholarship is a necessary evil.

LANSING — During a meeting Friday morning, the Michigan State University Board of Trustees approved a measure to increase tuition by 5.2 percent this academic year and 4.9 percent the following academic year. Next year’s increase could be reduced by 2 or 3 percent if the university receives federal stimulus money to offset the tuition hikes.

LANSING — A crowd of nearly 100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their supporters protested on the steps of the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday night in opposition to a California Supreme Court ruling which upheld a ban on same-sex marriage approved by Golden State voters last November.

Organizers said the event was “to call for absolute equality” in the state of Michigan for LGBT persons, with some advocates calling for an effort to put a new marriage equality amendment on the 2012 ballot.