Francis Schafer first encountered Monica Schafer, the Republican nominee for the Ingham County Board of Commissioners District 15, at a senior citizens event in Williamston. He liked her, he said, …
more
Todd Heywood
|
10/5/22
|
Three candidates for the Grand Ledge Public Schools Board of Education sat quietly at a table in the Grand Ledge Public Library. They listened as Linda Lee Tarver, a GOP activist...
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/29/22
|
In the not-too-distant future, fledgling artists here may get the support they need to spread their wings through a space in East Lansing where they can both live and work …
more
By Dawn Parker
|
9/29/22
|
Meet Brian Daniels and Ryan Kost, who are running to represent the First Ward on the Lansing City Council on Nov. 8.
Daniels, 36, served in Iraq where he was injured. As part of his journey …
more
By Todd Heywood
|
9/29/22
|
MONDAY, Sept. 28 — CATA will remove its shelters from Frandor, but the shopping center’s owner relented on banning buses for at least six months.
Mayor Andy Schor said he brokered the …
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/28/22
|
Environment links to cancer focus of new Michigan study
By CAMERYN CASSCapital News Service
LANSING – A new University of Michigan study aims to understand how environmental exposures in …
more
By CAMERYN CASS
|
9/26/22
|
LANSING, Sept. 23 — The future of housing in Michigan may come from ideas that are more than 100 years old.
Michigan needs about 75,000 new houses over the next five years to keep up with …
more
Liam Jackson
|
9/23/22
|
If there are seasons in the life of a city block, it’s been a long winter on the 900 block of West Saginaw Street, in the heart of the city’s near west side.
more
Lawrence Cosentino
|
9/22/22
|
Heritage Hall is the long-awaited addition to the Capitol that is the result of over three years of construction, during which the area was largely inaccessible and surrounded by chain-link fence. …
more
James Knarian
|
9/22/22
|
Jen Estill, owner of Redhead Design, bought the historic Nelson Building at 113 S. Washington Square. She was eager to center her communications company in the hustle and bustle of Lansing’s …
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/22/22
|
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21 — Lansing Board of Water and Light officials said last night that proposed residential rate increases starting in November, including more than 18% for water over the …
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/21/22
|
FRIDAY, Sept. 16 — The Lansing Board of Water and Light may be taking more from customers’ wallets with significant proposals to raise water and electric rates.
The LBWL Board is …
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/16/22
|
When COVID came sweeping through Ingham County, Maria Yokich-Grebner’s job as a dental billing specialist stopped for a time. When the dental office reopened, it was slow. Patients were spaced …
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/15/22
|
(The writer is a longtime Lansing builder who has been restoring homes for four and a half decades.)
Lansing residents of a certain age have fond memories of Jake’s New & Used …
more
Dave Muylle
|
9/15/22
|
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14 — “It’s dead,” Lansing Councilmember Brian Daniels declared today after Mayor Andy Schor promised not to put a golf driving range in Bancroft Park against …
more
Berl Schwartz
|
9/15/22
|
Michigan school officials are concerned about children going hungry or accumulating lunch debt after Congress recently ended federal funding for free meals for all students.
“Families are …
more
Sarah Atwood
|
9/12/22
|
When Thomas Barnes served less than a year in jail on a felony drug charge, he spoke with his mother almost daily. It cost half of her monthly income.
“What it costs to make a call from jail …
more
Janelle James
|
9/12/22
|
(This story has been corrected to reflect that the National Weather Service predicts there is a 40% chance that temperatures will be warmer than normal this fall. An earlier version said the service …
more
Genevieve Fox
|
9/10/22
|
The ruling upheld a temporary restraining order issued Tuesday by Ingham County Circuit Judge Clinton Canady III.
more
Todd Heywood
|
9/9/22
|
An odd tradition – sea lamprey pie – linking the Great Lakes to Great Britain’s Royals and is expected to continue with the crowning of King Charles III.
Lampreys …
more
Doug Tamru
|
9/9/22
|