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LANSING - Michiganders no longer will confront cigarette smoke in restaurants and bars starting in May after the Legislature's passage Thursday of legislation making it illegal to smoke in most workplaces.
Michigan Student Assembly President Abhishek Mahanti said the assembly’s current practice of nominating and appointing representatives to the Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee will soon be dropped. The move comes a little more than a week after independent lawyers quoted in a Michigan Daily article called into question the legality of the nomination process.
Despite the notoriously poor turnout in Michigan Student Assembly fall elections, MSA members say they expect increased voter turnout in this fall’s election, which began last night at midnight. Last fall, 9.6 percent of the student voting population took part in MSA elections, while only 5.3 percent took part in the 2007 fall elections.
It appears that some leaders of the Michigan Student Assembly don’t understand the difference between appointments and elections. Appointment is the method by which MSA leaders have been choosing people for the Department of Public Safety Oversight Committee and the assembly’s Constitutional Convention delegation. Election is the method that is required per state law and MSA bylaws, respectively.
For years, train stations in Nashville Tenn., and Kansas City, Mo., were boarded-up eyesores. But millions of dollars later, they're anything but dingy. What about the Michigan Central Station in Detroit?
The Tennessee men's basketball team is ranked ninth in the country and is off to a 5-1 start, but the Vols remain a work in progress.Kentucky freshman John Wall is off to a sizzling start and has proved he has a clutch shot, and Florida is suddenly dangerously resurgent with its win over No. 2 Michigan State.Whatever is ailing Mississippi State and its Goliath front line in this early season ...
A veteran state lawmaker and Democratic gubernatorial candidate on Tuesday proposed swapping Michigan's flat income tax rate for a graduated one, eliminating a business tax surcharge and some business tax breaks, and lowering the sales tax rate while extending it to services.
ASSOCIATED PRESS LANSING - A veteran state lawmaker and Democratic gubernatorial candidate yesterday proposed swapping Michigan's flat income tax rate for a graduated one, eliminating a business tax surcharge and some business tax breaks, and lowering the sales tax rate while extending it to services. The massive tax overhaul would raise $6.5 billion more for state coffers that could be used to ...
Lansing -- A veteran state lawmaker and Democratic gubernatorial candidate today proposed swapping Michigan's flat income tax rate for a graduated one, eliminating a business tax surcharge and some business tax breaks, and lowering the sales tax rate while extending it to services.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of Sarah Palin fans lined up Wednesday at a Michigan book store to get the chance to meet the former Alaska governor as she kicked off a national tour for her book “Going Rogue.”
Campaign targets Michigan's 'snowbirds.'