New rules for Michigan’s marijuana industry take effect on Monday.

A bill to lower the Michigan’s income tax rate below 4% passed the state Senate by a party line vote today.

Michigan House lawmakers approved a 1.5 billion dollar spending bill today.

Following pandemic-related closures and staffing shortages, some local restaurants are finally, fully opening back up.

The Michigan Public Service Commission is looking over a 15 year plan from Consumers Energy known as an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). An advocacy group wants that plan to include a faster switch to renewable energy.

The state House and Senate Fiscal Agencies released their January revenue updates this week, which show Michigan brought in around 3-billion-dollars in revenue last month.

“It makes no sense to spend the money, the investment that we as consumers will have to pay to build this infrastructure that then will essentially screw us going forward with even more costs associated with climate change.”

Mid-Michigan business leaders hope the next state budget will come with a funding boost to resuscitate downtown Lansing.The state of Michigan is one of Lansing’s biggest employers. But, in part because of remote work, the state has cancelled about 150,000 square feet of downtown lease space since the pandemic began, according to a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget.

All shifts are resuming Friday at the General Motors plant in Delta Township just outside Lansing.That’s after the automaker cancelled some this week amid a parts shortage exacerbated by a protest at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Canada.

The Ambassador Bridge remains shut down by protesters, and it might start having an impact on the local economy.