Public Act 4

Roy Roberts, the state-appointed emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, will keep his job after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected a…

The state House has approved a measure that would replace the emergency manager law that voters rejected last month.Supporters of the measure say it gives…

A new emergency manager bill advances to the House floor after a partisan vote passed the legislation through the House Local, Intergovernmental and…

In November, Michigan voters will decide the fate of Public Act 4 of 2011 (PA 4)—the controversial emergency manager law.PA 4 is the latest of three…

Detroit police officers have won a day in court—and the temporary suspension of new contract terms that were set to go into effect in the coming week.The…

Public employee union leaders are ecstatic that a referendum challenging the state’s emergency manager law will be on the November ballot.They’ve fiercely…

Supporters of a referendum to overturn Michigan’s emergency manager law want to make sure that question is on the November ballot.They filed an emergency…

Some voting rights advocates say Michigan’s emergency manager law represents “the death of democracy” in the state.So they symbolically laid democracy to…

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 along party lines this morning on whether to allow a challenge to the state's emergency manager law…

Every Thursday we take a look at Michigan politics with Susan Demas, political analyst for Michigan Information and Research Service, and Ken Sikkema,…