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Michigan kids are going back to school soon, and districts still don’t know how much state funding they'll get for the new year. Colin Jackson has more on how state legislative leadership is responding.

Michigan schools won’t have a new budget from the state for at least two weeks. Colin Jackson reports that’s after lawmakers missed a statutory deadline Tuesday for passing one.

The July 1 deadline for the Legislature to send a finalized budget to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk is approaching, and the House and the Senate don’t appear to be close. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The leaders of the Democratic-controlled Michigan Senate and Republican-controlled state House are meeting today after months of tension. Colin Jackson has more.

Road funding, innovation and housing made up three core parts of a talk Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave in Grand Rapids Monday. Colin Jackson has more.

The GOP-led state House adopted a stripped-down budget Thursday to serve as a stop-gap spending plan if negotiations bog down in the coming months. Rick Pluta reports.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says the Legislature should reach a bipartisan deal this week on new state minimum wage and earned sick leave laws or temporarily extend the status quo into the summer. We have more in a joint report from Rick Pluta and Colin Jackson.

The final briefs were filed Tuesday in a legal standoff over whether state House Republicans can be ordered to send bills to the governor once they are adopted by the Legislature. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Senate Democrats are taking the Republican Michigan House leader to court to unblock stalled bills and get them to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The state House adopted bills Thursday to scale back paid sick leave and minimum wage laws before they take effect in less than a month. We have more from Rick Pluta.