I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, before a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees this morning, unveiled a budget plan full of deep spending cuts and new taxes on seniors, the poor and the middle class to offset a business tax cut.
Officials with the incoming Snyder administration say they are looking through the state’s tax code in an effort to identify tax breaks and loopholes that can be eliminated.
Michigan is not the only state finding it difficult to balance off the need to use tax credits to attract investment with the need to raise adequate revenue to fund state programs. Stateline.org, a project of the Pew Charitable Trusts, reports that many other states are in a nearly identical situation. With nearly every state [...]
The two Democratic candidates for governor, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and House Speaker Andy Dillon, both recognize that tax breaks can be an effective way to attract businesses to invest in Michigan. But both also say that the state needs to do a better job of evaluating which tax incentives are working to create new jobs and which ones are not.
An April auditor general’s report on the tax credits granted by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation’s Strategic Fund finds that some of the companies given millions in tax credits have not lived up to their job creation promises, and the board charged with overseeing the credits does not have an adequate system of monitoring for [...]
The Detroit News reports that the state House New Economy and Quality of Life Committee unanimously approved a tax credit package that would allow the completion of a deal to convert a mothballed Ford plant in Wixom into a manufacturing facility for two alternative energy companies.
The deal we reported on yesterday involving new investment from companies seeking state tax credits to take over the dormant Ford plant at Wixom was announced by the Detroit Free Press:
There is a battle going on in Lansing about tax credits as critics wonder if they really do help to create jobs and economic growth and, if so, do they do those things well enough to make up for the loss in state revenue at a time when record deficits are forcing massive cuts in [...]
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