- Michigan
Wayne County, Mich., is open to moving its unfinished downtown Detroit jail to make way for a soccer stadium, but only if it is not saddled with the money and debt it has already sunk into the project
May 9 - Indiana
Voters in Indiana and Michigan responded favorably to requests for hundreds of millions of dollars in requests for bond borrowing authority.
May 4 - Michigan
State legislation to deal with about $500 million in Detroit Public Schools debt is headed to Michigans full House after winning approval Wednesday.
May 4 - Illinois
Some version of Detroits so-called grand bargain could help other fiscally struggling Rust Belt cities, including Chicago, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research says in a report.
May 3 - Michigan
Fitzgerald Public School District in Macomb County, Michigan lost its investment grade rating on its limited tax general obligation bonds and remains at risk of its unlimited tax GOs also falling to a speculative grade.
May 3 -
Debate began Tuesday in the Michigan House on a $715 million restructuring of Detroit Public Schools amid mounting growing pressure to act as the districts fiscal crisis prompted a two-day district-wide sickout.
May 3 - Michigan
Voters in Indiana and Michigan headed to the polls Tuesday will decide the fate of more than $1 billion in school district borrowing requests.
May 2 - Michigan
The Michigan House signed off on a $54 billion fiscal 2017 budget that provides more money to deal with Flints water contamination crisis and record spending for kindergarten through 12th grade education.
April 28 -
In a near unanimous vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a bill that includes $1.4 billion in federal funding for Flint, Mich. as well as any other community facing a water crisis.
April 28 -
After having been withdrawn from the energy bill in the Senate, controversial legislation to provide federal funds to Flint, Mich., and any other community facing a water crisis, has been included in a major water bill introduced in the chamber this week.
April 27