LANSING - The Michigan Supreme Court denied a request by Attorney General Bill Schuette to overturn a Court of Appeals ruling allowing state employees to receive benefits for domestic partners. The Civil Service Commission, which has authority over policy regarding state employees, approved benefits for unrelated people living with state employees.
Lansing - Internet retailers that have a physical presence or affiliated companies in Michigan would have to collect sales taxes on purchases under legislative proposals debated Wednesday in a House committee. The House Tax Policy Committee held public testimony on GOP-sponsored legislation that would change the definition of legal presence for out-of-state companies that sell merchandise toMichiganians on the Web.
LANSING - Residents at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans are given antipsychotic drugs at a far higher rate than residents of Michigan nursing homes, yet the home has no staff psychiatrist, according to a state audit released today. The report by Auditor General Thomas McTavish says 40.9% of the home's 509 residents were given antipsychotic drugs.
LANSING - Welfare reform that would deny benefits to people who test positive for drugs or whose child is truant from school passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Rochester - U.S. Rep. Gary Peters became the first candidate Wednesday to enter the race for the first open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan in two decades, making the announcement at a business his great-great grandfather once established.
