Bloomfield Township Supervisor Mike McCready sits down with Jim Ryan (Public Affairs Associates) to unpack Michigan’s new state budget—why it blew past the Oct. 1 deadline, how ultra-slim majorities shaped negotiations, and what the road-funding package actually does. They break down the proposed wholesale marijuana tax increase, the shift of sales-tax-at-the-pump revenue, and the creation of a “Neighborhood Roads Fund” (and why Act 51 complicates it). Plus: what K-12 schools get (≈4.6% per-pupi

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