fix the damn roads

They say that you know it’s spring in Michigan when the roads start sprouting orange barrels.You might also notice a lot more Michigan State Police patrol…

Michigan has closed on a sale of $800 million in bonds to rebuild some of the most traveled highways in the state. Michigan Department of Transportation…

Today on Stateside, a bill to give local clerks a head start on absentee ballot counting has hit a wall in the Legislature. We'll hear from one clerk…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer kicked off a tour to sell her proposed budget with a speech to business leaders in southeast Michigan. In her address to the…

The State Transportation Commission has given the go-ahead to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to sell taxpayer-backed bonds to finance Michigan’s most…

It is a fact universally acknowledged that Michigan has terrible roads.Well, unless you are state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake), who…

The state Senate Republican leader has put the sales tax on the table as a possible way to fund road repairs. Governor Gretchen Whitmer and legislative…

Today on Stateside, ten years after thousands of untested rape kits were found in a Detroit police warehouse, we talk to the prosecutor who’s been working…

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has again called on Republican leaders to reconvene the Legislature to wrap up work on a new state budget and a plan to fix the…

A recent study, that no Michigander needed, confirmed that we have the worst roads in the country.But, all roads in our pothole-plagued state are not…