Legislation that almost unanimously passed the Michigan Senate earlier this month and now is in a state House committee would reign in profiteering by local governments on home tax foreclosures without compensating property owners, one of the bill's co-sponsors said in a news release.
Counting absentee and mail-in ballots in next month's general election, especially given a decision to allow processing of ballots only one day before Nov. 3, could strain county clerks' offices in Michigan, Bloomfield Township's retiring clerk said during a recent radio interview with guest host Guy Gordon.
Freshman U.S. House Rep. Rashida Harbi Tlaib is trying to make profane language directed at President Donald Trump into a slogan for her 2020 re-election campaign but recently found that at least some of her supporters haven't gotten the memo.