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...bills: ‘It’s a balanced budget’, Gongwer/State Affairs (July 21) Opinion | Michigan can’t afford a blanket moratorium on data centers, Bridge Michigan (July 18) Week of July

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August 17, 2026

Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Weather, Climate, and Public Health

Unless you’ve been living under a rock—hopefully a heated rock, covered by several layers of blankets—then you are probably aware that sub-zero temperatures have overtaken Michigan and

Council Briefs

January 31, 2019
Tags Climate Change, Cold, Emergency Response, Polar Vortex, Public Health

Only One County Remains in Revenue Sharing Funding Gimmick

...blanket, across-the-board expenditure reductions, supplemented with a variety of one-time budget fixes. State revenue sharing was an early and easy target for these cuts. By FY2004, more

Council Briefs

June 18, 2021
Tags county revenue sharing, gimmick

Undergrounding Electrical Lines is an Option to Prevent Power Outages, but State Policy is Needed to Better Enable the Practice

...March 3, the region was blanketed with up to 10 inches of especially wet, heavy snow, bringing down more trees and powerlines. Hundreds of thousands more residents

Council Briefs

March 29, 2023
Tags Consumers, DTE, electric utilities, infrastructure, MPSC, power outages
Sycamore trees have been pruned-back hard to reduce potential storm damage to power lines on a tree-lined neighborhood street.

It’s Time to Fix Eleventh-Hour Earmarking in the State Budget

...Joint Rule 8, and these reforms would not have to mean the end of “omnibus” budget bills. Instead of the “blank slate” process used currently, each chamber

Council Briefs

August 18, 2023
Tags budgeting, michigan constitution, Michigan legislature, state budget
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