WASHINGTON — Two Michigan congressmen are proposing legislation that would allow families to save even more for their children’s college costs. The bill proposed by U.S. Reps. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton, and Dan Kildee, D-Flint Township, would increase from $2,000 to $10,000 a year the amount families can invest in Coverdell Savings Accounts for higher education. [...]
LANSING — Gov. Rick Snyder’s hope for an expansion of Medicaid to 470,000 more low-income Michigan residents faded a little bit more Thursday. The state Senate passed the Department of Community Health budget on a 20-18 vote, without the Medicaid expansion. It also killed an amendment offered by Sen. Vincent Gregory, D-Southfield, that would have [...]
MCT NEWS SERVICE USE WHAT LIGHT WE HAVE FOR GOOD The Rev. Holly McKissick, Peace Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo.: I keep thinking of Susie. Beautiful. Bright. Amazing. And taken from her children, family and friends way too soon. The light shines unevenly; Dante had that right. But I don’t buy his idea of [...]
By COLIN MERRY Pioneer News Network BENZIE COUNTY — The Maples Medical Care Facility told Benzie County Commissioners it is getting closer to financial independence and presented a plan for riding out the “short term financial blip” at a special meeting Thursday. Commissioners heard from Judy Martin, interim director for The Maples, and Mike Stevenson, [...]
MCT NEWS SERVICE Consumers Energy will require all home and businesses with dogs to restrain the animals — even those that haven’t shown aggressive behavior — before meters will be read because of an increasing number of dog bites reported by meter readers. “We continue to see an increase in the number of dog [...]
MCT NEWS SERVICE LANSING — Skepticism that the federal government would approve a Republican proposal for Medicaid expansion greeted GOP lawmakers who have sponsored the bill. The House plan would limit coverage for low-income Michiganders to four years. They would also have to contribute 5 percent of their annual income into an account to [...]
JACKSON — Consumers Energy is offering spring and summer safety tips for Michigan residents during National Electrical Safety Month. “It’s important that residents take time to become aware of the electric and natural gas facilities around them, both overhead and underground, to allow outdoor activities to be accomplished safely this spring,” said Daniel J. Malone, [...]
Acting as his own lawyer, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is asking a federal judge to toss his conviction, arguing many things went wrong during his public corruption trial and that several of his rights were violated. In his claim, Kilpatrick took issue with the media, his lawyer, certain witnesses, and the grand jury selection [...]
MCT NEWS SERVICE General Motors plans to construct a second data center in Milford to go along with a recently opened information technology data operation in Warren, making Michigan the nerve center of GM’s global data. The automaker Monday confirmed that it will invest $258 million to open a new data center at its [...]
Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit Metro Airport MCT NEWS SERVICE Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the passenger, [...]