Michigan Budget

Legislative fiscal agencies: Michigan revenue forecast on track

Colin Jackson

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.

Local/Regional News

Whitmer to present spending plan this week

Rick Pluta | MPRN

Governor Gretchen Whitmer and her budget team are putting the final touches on a spending plan for the next fiscal year.The governor will formally roll out her proposal Wednesday.

Police officer David Moore is pictured wearing a body camera in Ipswich, Mass., on Dec. 1, 2020. The city was among 25 statewide awarded grants to purchase body-worn cameras for videotaping interactions with the public. A new study says the benefits to society and police departments outweigh the costs of the cameras.

Local/Regional News

Initiative to equip state police with body cameras part of new state budget

Michigan's new fiscal year begins Friday, Oct. 2, and one of the initiatives in the new budget is to equip Michigan State Police officers with body cameras. $3.8 million will pay for the cameras and data storage.