If legislators can reach a workable compromise on the intensely complex and emotional issue of water, they can do it on state prison policy, too.
As the Citizens Research Council has repeatedly shown, Michigan's get-tough-on-crime approach is out of whack with other Midwestern states. This approach isn't reducing crime but it is eating gigantic holes in [...]

Don't be fooled by the relative peace and quiet in this year's state budget process, which is about to conclude month's earlier than last year's near government shutdown.
Last year's tax increase provided enough money to at least mollify the many different interests competing for state funding.
Long-term, though, the state is clearly headed back into the [...]

Perhaps it's no coincidence that in the same week that GM stock sunk to its lowest price in more than 30 years, Michigan's small- and medium-sized businesses told Accident Fund they were bullish on their business futures:
Despite some dissatisfaction with the state's current economy, Michigan's small- to mid-sized business owners see a light on the [...]

The hard work of 1,800 statewide residents who came together in the past year to develop "Michigan's Defining Moment: A Common Ground Agenda for Michigan's Transformation" is reaching the desks of the hundreds of candidates running this year for seats in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Here's some of their early feedback:
Ed Mulka, a Democrat from [...]

Psssst. Did you see the new band of merry reformers called "Reform Michigan Government Now" who popped up in recent weeks?
Supposedly drafted somewhere in Hastings, this effort appears to have at least the smudges of fingerprints from the Michigan Democratic Party, as veteran Lansing political commentator Peter Luke explains.
Despite the authoritative name of this petition [...]