A Michigan ballot campaign to tax people more if they make over half a million dollars a year faced a setback Thursday at a state elections board meeting.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled that felony-firearm convictions only have a six-year statute of limitations.

The chair of the state House Oversight Committee says its inquiry into possible misuse of a $20 million economic development grant might be slowed by a criminal investigation.

Republicans and Democrats have proposed different multi-billion-dollar road funding plans this year. But massive federal funding cuts to state level social programs, like Medicaid, may force some of that funding to go elsewhere.