Rick Snyder News

Michigan is the automobile manufacturing hub of the world. So if Google relocates recently purchased Israeli firm Waze to the US, why not to the search company's R&D facility in the state instead of its headquarters in Silicon Valley? That is a question Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked this week on a visit to GPS-based navigational app company ... (more)

Governor Snyder is on to day four of his nine-day trade mission to Israel. He attended the opening ceremonies of the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference, which include speeches over three days from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Monaco's Prince ... (more)

A rally in support of increased public education funding Wednesday drew more than 200 spectators to the Capitol lawn and a Democratic candidate for governor to the Capitol steps for his first public speech since announcing he was seeking the office.

Michigan regulators could add up to a $1 monthly surcharge to utility bills to help poor customers with their heating bills under legislation headed to Gov. Rick Snyder.

Hamtramck has asked Gov. Rick Snyder to send an emergency manager to fix finances in the small Detroit-area city.

Kalamazoo-area preservationists -- heartbroken over the planned demolition of three of the four buildings on WMU's historic East Campus -- have been urging the university to reconsider since the plans were announced in December.

I would think that since both parties work for us there should be no closed-door discussions in the first place.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a reading of election law used by Secretary of State Ruth Johnson , which vindicated Gov. Rick Snyder's veto of Johnson's effort to add to the voter registration process.

A deer in Michigan is causing a great deal of controversy over the issue of whether or not animals should be removed from the wild and raised as household pets.

Reading through the 128-page report Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr provided to creditors last week, we here at the Hits had a question others in the media didn't seem to think was all that important to ask.

David Jacobson recalled Tuesday his first visit to Canada as a child when his father stopped the family Buick in the middle of the Ambassador Bridge so that his parents were sitting on the Canadian side of the border while he and his sisters in the back seat were on the American side.

Democratic lawmakers and members of the State Board of Education warned Tuesday that legislation seeking to dissolve the financially troubled school districts in Inkster and Buena Vista could be used to merge other schools.

Gov. Rick Snyder announced that the president has declared a major disaster area for 16 counties across Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas due to the severe flood damage that occurred from April 16 to May 14. The affected counties are Allegan, Barry, Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Ionia, Kent, Keweenaw, Marquette, Midland, Muskegon, Newaygo, ... (more)

A controversial bill to expand Medicaid health care coverage to nearly a half-million more Michiganians moves to the Senate this week, where its chances for passage as of Monday remained a tossup.

Michigan can learn from the entrepreneurial culture of Israel, where people are generally more willing to take risks with ideas and investments, Gov. Rick Snyder said in an interview today from the Middle East country.

Voter-approved tax money to support the Detroit Zoo and the Detroit Institute of Arts is safe again, or so it seems.

The expressway, which already provides a substantial barrier to economic development in New Center, would be widened from six lanes to 10. In addition, a two-lane continuous service drive would be added in each direction.

The City of Detroit will not be allowed to sell valuable artwork in order to dig itself out of debt , as decided by the Michigan state Attorney General, Bill Schuette in an official opinion released Thursday, June 6, 2013.

Detroit is suspending payments on $2 billion of unsecured debt, marketing parking garages and telling retirees to rely on President Barack Obama 's health-care law to avoid a record municipal bankruptcy.

It's a steady upward trend: climbing, climbing. That gradual, but merciless climbing.