For as much time as I’ve spent browsing the shelves at local pot shops and reporting on industry trends, you’d think that I would have a pretty good idea on how to grow my own marijuana — especially because it’s legal in Michigan to harvest up to 12 plants at home.
The Lansing City Council approved a final set of tax incentives that could help entice General Motors to build a $2.5 billion battery cell manufacturing plant next year in Delta Township. All told, the proposed tax incentive package for the project could amount to decades of significantly reduced taxes — including no paying no income or property taxes for 18 years — and cheaper electricity costs. GM is expected to decide whether to build the plant within the next few weeks.
In September, Lansing City Councilwoman Kathie Dunbar met with several mothers of teenagers shot and killed amid a wave of gun violence that has left at least 45 people dead and 170 people injured over the last two years.
Skyin Yin and her neighbors are getting frustrated with noise at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
Lansing cops are investigating a burglary at a north Lansing pot shop.
Nearly all of the ice cream being served at the MSU Dairy Store this week was outsourced from MOO-ville Creamery.
A Lansing political consultant was suspended from Twitter this week for apparent 'abuse and harassment.'
Regular readers know that I’m a bit of marijuana traditionalist. I like to keep my smoke simple.
Jeffrey Brown takes office as a new at-large member of the Lansing City Councilman on Jan. 1. He was elected even though many specifics about his background stayed private — and they remain that way. Efforts to find out more about him have been hindered by Brown himself, who hasn’t returned calls from City Pulse since before Election Day. What is on the record is his connection to several unsuccessful home healthcare businesses and that he filed for bankruptcy in 2015, apparently costing employees tens of thousands of dollars in income.
General Motors plans to build a $2.5 billion battery cell production plant for electric vehicles in Delta Township that could create 1,700 new jobs in Lansing through 2026.
