Category Archives: State News
State Budget Headed to Governor's Desk
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – State lawmakers, who wanted to put a completed 55 billion-dollar Fiscal 2016 state budget on the Governor’s desk by the end of this week, approved general fund and edu...
Jun 03, 2015
Blue Ribbon Panel Submits Report on Third-Grade Level Reading Improvements
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A Third Grade Reading Workgroup, convened in March to research solutions for rapidly improving early literacy statewide, presented their report to Governor Snyder. Among the...
Jun 03, 2015
Busy Allegan County court docket
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC) – There is plenty of news coming out of the Allegan County Courthouse. Following a pre-trial meeting last week, the attorney for Jonathon Colby told Allegan County prosecutors...
Jun 02, 2015
State Budgetary "School Bus" Moves Out of Joint Conference Committee
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A joint state House-Senate conference committee today approved an amended state K-12 education budget for Fiscal 2016. MIRS News reports that 50 million of the 13.9 billion-...
Jun 02, 2015
Meekhof Among State Senators Targeted by Conservative GOP for Recall on Gas Tax Hike
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – A group of state Republican conservatives are threatening recall efforts against seven state Senators that they believe support hiking the gas tax for road repair revenue. A...
Jun 02, 2015
Governor, New State School Superintendent Meet
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – MIRS News reports that Governor Snyder has met with state school superintendent-designate Brian Whiston ahead of the new man replacing the retiring Mike Flanagan at the end ...
Jun 02, 2015
MDOT, GLCRR Close to Deal on Unused Passenger Rail Cars
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The problem of 23 "rehabilitated" commuter railroad cars, owned by Great Lakes Central Railroad and leased to the Michigan Department of Transportation, that are sitting idl...
Jun 02, 2015
Mid-Michigan Honor Flight takes place today
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – The Mid-Michigan Honor Flight takes place today at the Gerald R. Ford International airport. It's the Regional Hub of the Honor Flight Network. Honor Flight Network is the n...
Jun 02, 2015
Rumble strip safety shown in new MDOT-commissioned report
DETROIT, MI (WHTC) – A Wayne State University Transportation Research Group study for the Michigan Department of Transportation found that, since rumble strips were installed on 5,700 miles of r...
Jun 01, 2015
Back to work for lawmakers in Lansing after Mackinac Conference
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan lawmakers return to work in earnest tomorrow after last week’s Mackinac Policy Conference. Topping their agenda is finalizing the Fiscal 2016 state budget, wi...
Jun 01, 2015
