Capitol Briefings
12/11/11
LANSING -- Bills cementing how Michigan's new $100 million in economic development incentives will be handed out have cleared the Legislature.
12/06/11
LANSING -- For a couple of months, business and labor, and Democrats and Republicans, have squared off over a wide-ranging workers' compensation bill in the Legislature.
12/08/11
LANSING -- Michigan has commissioned an $80,000 study on whether its business incentives are still competitive with other states.
11/20/11
LANSING -- Will he or won't he veto?
11/13/11
LANSING -- It was May when lawmakers approved $100 million for new programs to replace Michigan's expiring tax credits for economic development, historic preservation and brownfields, and August when the Michigan Strategic Fund board approved program guidelines.
10/02/11
LANSING - Sides are digging in and the battle is on over changing the state's no-fault auto insurance law.
09/25/11
LANSING -- As the Snyder administration deliberates eliminating Michigan's personal property tax, one option it has been looking at is how the state's expiring business tax credits might free up replacement revenue that could be directed to local governments and others.
09/21/11
LANSING -- With the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year, the state's new $100 million pot of economic development incentives is official.
09/11/11
LANSING -- Businesses that employ minors who are in school will see altered standards on how many hours they can work, under a bill passed last week by the state House.
08/28/11
LANSING -- Some lawmakers are trying to rev up a solution to Michigan's annual search for matching funds to draw down federal dollars for roads and bridges.
08/07/11
LANSING -- Local government officials are concerned about the direction the state is headed, and they aren't wild about the job that either Gov. Rick Snyder or lawmakers are doing, according to a new University of Michigan public policy survey.
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CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Legislature passes economic development bills