road funding

Once again lawmakers are starting over as another road funding plan collapsed late last week in Lansing.What really happened?The latest effort to come up…

Jennifer White spoke to Ken Sikkema, former Senate Majority Leader and Senior Policy Fellow at Public Sector Consultants, and Susan Demas, publisher of…

Contrary to what you might think, it is not true that our government in Lansing can’t do anything. Why, just yesterday, the governor reappointed four…

This Week in Michigan Politics, Michigan Radio’s senior news analyst Jack Lessenberry and Morning Edition host Christina Shockley discuss another road…

State lawmakers return this week from a month-long break with hopes of passing a new road funding plan.Action on road funding has been stalled since July…

A group of unions is launching a petition drive to raise the corporate income tax rate in Michigan. But is that really their end game?Unions strike backA…

Everybody gripes about Michigan's potholes.But in Hamtramck, a group of friends is raising money to fix their roads themselves.Jessica Paris said they…

A union-led petition drive is trying to increase the state’s Corporate Income Tax rate from 6% to 11%. The revenue would be used to fix roads.Increasing…

More than half of Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids' roads are in poor condition, according to a recent study by the transportation research group TRIP.…

Updated story 4:38 PM:So, there’s definitely no deal on road funding.The state House and Senate floor managers have let it be known there will be no…