MichMash: Campaign season shifts gears as filing deadline passes

Tuesday’s campaign filing deadline has passed, and 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives on the ballot are up...

MichMash: Will Chatfield embezzlement charges push legislature to act on financial disclosures?

Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is charged with 13 counts of embezzlement, conspiracy and larceny as the state looks at...

Lobbying cooling off period, campaign finance bills get first hearing

Some Michigan bills in a legislative package known as the “BRITE Act,” aimed at ensuring greater accountability from elected officials, received...

Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield facing over a dozen felony charges

Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield is now facing over a dozen felony charges for allegedly misusing state, nonprofit, and...

Dems to regain Michigan House majority after voters fill vacancies

Michigan Democrats are poised to regain their state House majority after declaring victory in two special elections to fill vacancies....

What to expect in Michigan’s state house special elections

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Democrats hope to restore their slim majority in the state House of Representatives on Tuesday when...

Created Equal: Breaking down the new state House districts in metro Detroit

Just two years into Michigan’s experiment with citizen-drawn maps for the Legislature and Congress, a court-ordered redraw to address gerrymandering...

House bill would permanently block convicted tamperers from election jobs

A state House committee held its first hearing Tuesday on a bill to permanently bar people convicted of many election-related...

House Education Committee holds school safety hearing on the road

The Michigan House Education Committee met on the road Monday evening to discuss school safety. At the meeting at Sterling Heights High...

Birth control access bills appear in committee

Michigan bills to allow trained pharmacists to prescribe birth control methods, like contraceptive patches, received a hearing Tuesday before the...

Detroit Evening Report: Redistricting Commission hosting public hearings on state House maps

The Michigan Independent Citizen Redistricting Commission is hosting in-person public hearings in Detroit this week about new maps the body...

Created Equal: Should our political maps be drawn based on geography or race? 

Michigan’s legislative maps have been drawn — and re-drawn — several times by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission in...