Eyesore of the Week
The city of Lansing has red-tagged this boarded-up property. The backyard is surrounded by a dilapidated wooden privacy fence. The second-floor window on the back is completely gone, while …
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Lansing Board of Education candidates differ on issues
Pay increases for teachers, “right-sizing” and educating students caught up in the juvenile justice system are among the issues of concern to the candidates for the Lansing Board of …
Signs of the times: Williamston Board of Education candidates dinged over campaign signs
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19 — Four candidates for the Williamston Board of Education have been sent letters demanding compliance with the Michigan Campaign Finance Act by Ingham County Clerk Barb …
A flurry over furries in Grand Ledge school board race
The three conservative candidates for the Grand Ledge school board have earned themselves a nickname: the Kitty Litter Caucus. That’s because two of them are pushing a discredited …
Rural Maple Valley Schools caught in national debate on LGBTQ youth
It was high school homecoming in Vermontville. An autumn chill settled into downtown as a parade of fire trucks, pickups and tractors rumbled down the eight-block parade route. Children and adults …
LCC introduces LGBTQ history with Michigan premiere tonight
THURSDAY, Oct. 13 — Lansing College Performing Arts coordinator Paige Tufford knew last year as the department started planning the 2022-‘23 theater season that space and time were going …
Polling shows $175 million public safety plan can win … if
Gail Thompson sat in front of her home on Alpha Street in Lansing’s Second Ward Sunday afternoon. Gail’s husband, Raymond, delivered her hot chocolate while she conducted a garage …
Grand Ledge school board candidate admits to ‘anger issues’
MONDAY, Oct. 10 — A candidate for the Grand Ledge Board of Education is defending himself against allegations of domestic violence, anger control issues and abuse found in his second divorce …
Right-to-lifer and openly gay man face off for county Commission seat
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, …
From the motorcycle to the stage
Five years ago, Rose Jangmi Cooper was doing her thing when she heard the dramatic call of the theater muses. She’d been known in the Lansing area for years as the woman who rode …