ballot proposals

Last December, in the final hours the Legislature was in session for 2015, a bill passed both Houses and was later signed by Governor Snyder.That bill had…

This Week in Michigan politics, Jack Lessenberry said the recent shooting in Kalamazoo won't prompt legislation on gun control any time soon, he explained…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - An information freeze for local and school officials is thawing after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on a new…

When Republicans pushed through a campaign finance bill at the end of last year’s Michigan Legislative session, it was met with little resistance. In…

The ballot campaign to add LGBT and women’s rights to the state constitution is kaput, at least for this year.Suspending the campaignThe Fair Michigan…

There’s been lots of debate over the past few days about the political wisdom of going ahead in Michigan with a couple of ballot campaigns after similar…

It’s the upstarts versus the Establishment. Again.And, this time, we don’t mean the Tea Party versus the Republicans. Rather, we’re talking about the gay…

It looks like we won’t be seeing an LGBT rights question on the statewide 2016 ballot.Yet, it was not that long ago that it seemed a near-certainty that…

One month from tomorrow, voters in Michigan will decide the fate of Proposal 1, the ballot measure that would raise more than a billion dollars in new…

A new poll indicates voters will turn down a road funding proposal on the ballot in May. Target Insyght conducted the poll commissioned by the political…