state revenue sharing

If you’ve been living in Michigan for a while, chances are that you have noticed a drop in the quality of services you are getting from local government.…

A lawsuit filed today threatens to blow a $4 billion hole in the state budget.The legal action says that’s how much the state shortchanges local…

Governor Snyder has named Brad Coulter as emergency manager for the city of Lincoln Park.Coulter will take a leave of absence from his job as a consultant…

Flint’s mayor says his and other Michigan cities need more revenue sharing dollars from the state.Mayor Dayne Walling delivered Flint’s “State of the…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Local governments bore steep cuts in state revenue-sharing payments in the 2000s as sales tax collections lagged and lawmakers…

“Painful” cuts to Lansing’s city budget are being predicted by the man heading a task force studying the capitol city’s budget problems.David Hollister…

Michigan's budget will have about $300 million more this year than state economists predicted in January.That money is the result of a combination of…

265 Kalamazoo City employees are eligible for the early retirement incentive. According to the city’s Human Resources Director Jerome Post, 191 of them…

Critics and allies alike say Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's proposal to get the state to pay the city more than $200 million faces an uphill battle.It’s one of…