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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor’s administration has hired a diversity officer to help lead ongoing efforts designed to bolster racial justice and social equity in the capital city.
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Staff
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11/19/20
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Heads up pot smokers: Skymint just opened up shop in East Lansing.
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Staff
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11/19/20
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In past decades, regional transportation plans promised a future of universal urban mobility, whether you owned a car or not. Brightly colored maps were bejeweled with dotted lines where light rail, bus lanes and non-motorized trails would go someday, connecting everyone to a reliable and convenient transportation web.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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11/19/20
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In 2005, Ingham County formed the state’s second Land Bank. The timing was worthy of Nostradamus.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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11/19/20
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Whether it was a rally to protect DREAMers, or to chastise the federal policy of separating children from their families at the border, he was there. If it was women’s rights or LGBTQ equality, he was there, smiling. And quietly, fiercely, behind the scenes Mark Brown battled systemic racial inequities.
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Todd Heywood
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11/19/20
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The Hertel family pigskin will have a blank on it for 2020.
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TODD HEYWOOD and SEAN BRADLEY
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11/19/20
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Another round of statewide emergency orders that took effect this week are designed to enact a “three-week pause” on social gatherings and other group-oriented activities across Michigan.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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11/19/20
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She’s been talked about for governor so often, it’s as if mentioning Macomb County Public Works Director Candice Miller’s name in any speculative gubernatorial list is a festive formality. Kind of like serving cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving.
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Kyle Melinn
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11/19/20
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Jan.20 can’t come soon enough, but there is still plenty of time for thousands more Michiganders to die from COVID-19 before President-elect Biden takes the reins and implements a national pandemic containment strategy.
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Staff
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11/19/20
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The complete list of Top of the Town 2020 winners.
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Staff
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11/19/20
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Richard Ruzich is eyeing a large expansion of his marijuana cultivation business in Lansing next year.
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Sean Bradley
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11/18/20
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Lansing Deputy Mayor Samantha Harkins is stepping down from one of the top jobs in Lansing’s government and appears to have launched her own consulting business.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/13/20
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Two more officers at the Lansing Police Department have been placed on paid administrative leave as the Michigan State Police launches an investigation into a violent arrest earlier this week along the 800 block of Baker Street in southeast Lansing.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/12/20
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THURSDAY, Nov. 12 — As the holiday season approaches, health officials are calling on local residents to hunker down and avoid gatherings as COVID-19 caseloads begin to overwhelm medical …
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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11/12/20
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For 50,000-plus nonprofit organizations in Michigan — nearly 4,000 in Ingham County alone — the year 2020 has been challenging in the extreme.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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11/12/20
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer stopped by I-496 in Lansing Tuesday to see the nearly completed construction of the first project in her “Rebuilding Michigan” plan.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/12/20
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The 2020 election is in the books in Michigan. Unless you’re President Trump or believe something is going to come of his spaghetti-on-the-wall lawsuits.
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Kyle Melinn
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11/12/20
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The coronavirus pandemic is reaching new levels of uncontrolled spread in Michigan, including across Greater Lansing, as the state surges past 220,000 COVID-19 cases and 7,700 deaths.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/12/20
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor’s administration has also made a routine out of forcing local media outlets — including City Pulse and the Lansing State Journal — to use the legislation to obtain even rudimentary-level details and supplemental records over the most insignificant of topics.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/12/20
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America got it right. So did President-elect Joe Biden, claiming the nation’s highest office over the weekend with a call to unity and civility. It is a time to heal, he said. He’s right, but it will take time.
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Staff
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11/12/20
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