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Amy Lane is the capitol correspondent for Crain's Detroit Business.

You can read her Capitol Briefings blog by clicking here.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Legislature passes economic development bills

12/11/11 LANSING -- Bills cementing how Michigan's new $100 million in economic development incentives will be handed out have cleared the Legislature.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Wrangling continues over changes to workers' comp

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Study to rate state's business incentives

12/08/11 LANSING -- Michigan has commissioned an $80,000 study on whether its business incentives are still competitive with other states.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Snyder’s veto pen poised over biz-backed rules bill

11/20/11 LANSING -- Will he or won't he veto?

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Requirements debate stalls funds for revitalization work

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Hearings open battle on no-fault changes

10/02/11 LANSING - Sides are digging in and the battle is on over changing the state's no-fault auto insurance law.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Sub expiring biz credits for personal property tax?

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Out with the old incentives, in with the new

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: House OKs new rules on teen workers' hours

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: Road-funding bills stall while Snyder forms plan

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.

CAPITOL BRIEFINGS: 50 percent of local leaders say state off track

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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Amy Lane is the capitol correspondent for Crain's Detroit Business. You can read her Capitol Briefings blog by clicking here.