Lansing General Election Preview Issue

Welcome to our 2025 City of Lansing Election Preview Issue. In it, we do not attempt to cover the waterfront on either issues or biographies. Rather, our goal was to help you make up your minds by imparting a sense of how the candidates think, express themselves and what may qualify them to earn your vote. We spent about 30 minutes with all but one, Aurelius Christian, who for reasons never explained boycotted City Pulse. Our means was to ask candidates their views on a small range of issues (preservation, homelessness, red-tagging, the City Charter and trash collection) in roughly 30-minute video meetings (all of which are available to you at www.lansingcitypulse.com). We ran out of time to get Peter Spadafore’s views on trash pickup and homelessness. The candidates’ thoughts also helped shape our endorsements, which follow our stories on candidates’ views, broken down  by topic.

More than 22,000 absentee ballots will be in the mail shortly, hence the timing of this week’s issue. We’re happy to consider your thoughts on candidates via letters to the editor. Please email them to letters@lansingcitypulse.com.