Term-limited former Democratic state Rep. Leslie Love announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2024. Love represented Detroit in the state Legislature from 2015 to 2020. She was a member of the …
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Nicole Noechel
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5/16/23
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FRIDAY, May 12 — Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sarah Anthony, every other elected Democratic legislator from the mid-Michigan region and 50 other elected and non-elected leaders came …
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Kyle Melinn and Todd Heywood
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5/12/23
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Dan Backus thought that investing in rental properties in 1978 would serve as a retirement plan. “I was thinking long term,” said Backus, 76, a retired building contractor from Mason about why he bought three Lansing rental properties. …
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Todd Heywood
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5/11/23
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Shiawassee County Sheriff Douglas Chapman received preferential treatment when he was sentenced for a drunk driving arrest in 2018, an analysis of court records of other such arrests before the same …
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Todd Heywood
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5/11/23
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The City of Lansing has red-tagged about 700 residences, meaning Code Compliance Office inspectors have found them unsafe to occupy. Of those residences, 21 have been red-tagged at least 10 years.
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5/11/23
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WEDNESDAY, May 10 — A local developer has proposed building a townhouse-style complex with as many as 240 apartments in a blighted residential area near Saginaw Street and Pennsylvania Avenue …
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Todd Heywood
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5/10/23
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Five people were assaulted and one person was stabbed at the Willow Vista Apartments in the 500 block of West Willow Street. The six victims, who are believed to be residents at the apartments, were …
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Nicole Noechel
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5/9/23
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When the phone rang over a decade ago, the furthest thing from the mind of Pastor Coye Bouyer of the Kingdom Life Church was encumbering his small congregation with a mortgage and a decaying piece of …
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Todd Heywood
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5/4/23
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5141 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Lansing
The former Metro Bowl building may have played host to a cornucopia of memories since it was built in 1960, but now it is a shell. The front …
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Todd Heywood
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5/4/23
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WEDNESDAY, April 26 — NASA astronaut and Space Station commander Terry Virts is a thumbs-up, can-do NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel in the classic “Right Stuff” vein. But …
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/27/23
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Are you one of those readers who like to open a biography in the middle, to get to the good stuff? You don’t care what Napoleon or Catherine the Great did in diapers? …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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4/27/23
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THURSDAY, April 20 — REO Elementary School pupils on the city’s south side have been attending classes virtually since April 9 after the school was contaminated by soot from the school’s playground equipment being set on fire on Easter Friday.
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Todd Heywood
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4/20/23
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WEDNESDAY, March 29 — The recently retired head of Lansing’s Code Enforcement Office, which has been under fire over building inspection issues, said he quit because he was sick of …
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Todd Heywood
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3/29/23
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TUESDAY, March 21 — Disabilities now account for the top type of discrimination complaints to the Department of Civil Rights. “Disability has now outpaced race, in terms of those …
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Jack Timothy Harrison
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3/21/23
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MONDAY, March 20 — Just 16 days after announcing he’d formed an exploratory committee to look at running for the 7th Congressional seat, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor announced by email he …
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Todd Heywood and Berl Schwartz
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3/20/23
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Andy Schor can pinpoint when he decided against running for Congress.
The Lansing mayor announced an exploratory campaign just two and a half weeks ago. But between now and then, he and his wife, …
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Berl Schwartz
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3/20/23
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FRIDAY, March 17 — Ingham County Circuit Judge Joyce Draganchuk has ordered all of the handwritten filings by Lansing marijuana entrepreneur Michael Doherty in his receivership case stricken …
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Todd Heywood
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3/17/23
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While Phillips Orchards & Cider Mill’s Lansing outpost opened at the end of December, there’s another development to celebrate. Last week, the St. Johns-based company began offering its boozy beverages …
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Lizy Ferguson
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3/16/23
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The remains of a modern piece of land art displayed behind the Capitol’s west end from 1980 to 2002 was returned to the original artist after sitting in storage in Detroit for years, the state …
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Kyle Melinn
MIRS Capitol News Service | 3/9/23 |
On June 27, 2022, this unregistered rental property caught fire and took the life of 23-month-old Damian Shessia. An investigation revealed there were no smoke detectors in the property …
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3/9/23
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