Rick Pluta

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is pushing back against Republican allegations that she is refusing to cooperate with legislative election oversight efforts. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Local school board candidates in most Michigan communities appear on the ballot without party labels. Many people who serve on school boards say they like it that way because their major responsibilities don’t align with partisan agendas. But, as K-12 education has become more of a political flashpoint, an effort has launched in Lansing to have school board candidates show their blue or red primary colors. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A group of 22 Republican state lawmakers is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to supervise Michigan’s elections next year. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Senate approved bills Thursday to outlaw per-signature payments to professional circulators gathering signatures for pollical candidates and ballot campaigns. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The state is defending the new Michigan marijuana tax in court filings, arguing it is constitutional and it does not conflict with a voter-approved law that legalized recreational cannabis. We have more from Rick Pluta.

President Donald Trump issued preemptive pardons Monday to 16 state Republicans who tried to pass themselves as presidential electors following the 2020 election when the Democratic ticket carried Michigan. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A new judicial task force report calls for an overhaul in how Michigan’s local courts are funded. The report says the local jurisdictions rely too much on fines and fees to fund their operations. The report says that is not only unfair, it undermines faith that courts and judges are more interested in dispensing justice than collecting money. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A first-of-its-kind case testing the power of the judicial branch to issue orders to the Legislature on how to conduct business is heading to the Michigan Supreme Court. Rick Pluta has more.

The main organization representing Michigan’s legal marijuanabusinesses is asking a Michigan Court of Claims judge to pauseimplementation of the state’s new cannabis tax while a legal challenge plays out. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A bill introduced Wednesday in the state Legislature would enable local governments to levy a tax to help them manage to the costs of short-term rentals. We have more from Rick Pluta.