Snyder’s budget provides more for schools, police and roads
Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled his second budget Thursday that includes a modest 2.4 percent overall increase and more money for schools, public safety and transportation.
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Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder unveiled his second budget Thursday that includes a modest 2.4 percent overall increase and more money for schools, public safety and transportation.
Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has taken down a controversial Chinese-themed website and is phasing in a new TV commercial in the slot of his original Super Bowl ad that was panned as racially insensitive.
Lansing — In addition to education and transportation investments, Gov. Rick Snyder said public safety is a priority in his 2013 budget proposal presented Thursday.
Initial reaction to Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposal was generally positive — mostly because Michigan is in better financial shape than it was 12 months ago.
Hours after former Sen. Rick Santorum won three primary contests Tuesday, the Oakland County Republican Party’s phone and website were inundated.
Highlights of Gov. Rick Snyder’s $48.2 billion budget proposal for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1:
New York — Mitt Romney is in danger of losing his fourth straight state in Saturday’s caucuses in Maine, where he and his allies have been all but absent from TV. That’s no coincidence.
Washington — Democrats are deeply divided over President Barack Obama’s new rule that religious schools and hospitals must provide insurance for free birth control to their employees.
Washington — President Barack Obama on Thursday declared that 10 states are free from the No Child Left Behind law, allowing them to scrap some of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education.
Emboldened by three victories Tuesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum now seeks to usurp Mitt Romney in his native state by bringing momentum and a manufacturing revival message to Michigan.
Gov. Rick Snyder hosted his second Facebook town hall in less than two months, this time answering questions about a 2013 budget proposal he presented Thursday morning in Lansing.
Phoenix — A top aide to former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who suffered shots to his leg and face in the Tucson rampage that also left the congresswoman severely wounded announced Thursday that he will seek to replace her in a special election.
Atlanta—A day after his defeats in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota, Mitt Romney pounded Republican presidential rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on Wednesday as big-spending Washington insiders whose careers show scant evidence of fiscal restraint.
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