Jon Bumstead

The Michigan Senate voted Tuesday evening to restore most of the funding that a House committee had canceled last week. As Colin Jackson explains, the Senate vote is the first step toward potentially undoing budget cuts by a House committee that bypassed the Senate and governor by using a rarely invoked section of state law.

Time is ticking for Michigan lawmakers to agree on the state’s next budget ahead of a scheduled break at the end of the month. Colin Jackson has more.

The Michigan Senate passed spending bills totaling about $220 million Wednesday to close the books on the last fiscal year. Colin Jackson has more.

Republicans and Democrats on a joint House and Senate legislative committee are deadlocked on absentee ballot rules. The result is those rules will almost certainly not be ready for the upcoming 2022 elections. And that means clerks and election boards could be left without guidance on specific standards to determine who should be allowed to vote. Rick Pluta reports.