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The 196-year-old former Eastern High School building on Pennsylvania Avenue on Lansing's east side. Citizens concerned about its demolition are asking the City Council to support efforts to save it.
Kost sponsors City Council resolution to spare old Eastern High School from demolition
TUESDAY, July 2 — The Lansing City Council is expected to vote next week on a resolution backing an effort to convince University of Michigan Health-Sparrow to preserve the old Eastern High … more
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Strange Matter Coffee's eastside location was hit by scammers for more than $1,000 in losses yesterday in a ruse that involved impersonating a Lansing police officer and telephone number spoofing.
Strange Matter’s eastside location hit for over $1,000 in cash fraud scheme
WEDNESDAY, June 26 — When an employee at Strange Matter Coffee’s eastside Lansing location, 2010 E. Michigan Ave., picked up the phone around noon yesterday, they couldn’t have imagined the call would last for over two hours. more
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1st photo: (From left) Former NBA players and Detroit natives Jordan and Joe Crawford greet President Joe Biden at their new business, CRED Café in Detroit, during a stop on Biden’s Michigan visit last month.
Biden, Trump campaigns zero in on Michigan’s Black voters
As a politically active Black woman, Lori Adams Simon is among a voting block that President Joe Biden will again depend heavily on in his effort to win Michigan in November. more
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Community committee forms to save old Eastern High School
Alumni of old Eastern High School, eastsiders and preservationists have formed a committee to work with the University of Michigan Health–Sparrow to ensure the preservation of the landmark classroom building on Pennsylvania Avenue. more
From a statue of Frederick Douglass
In the United States, words bring the real freedom
In mid-June, Lansing celebrated Juneteenth, and early next month comes the Fourth of July. more
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A rendering of the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. A former faculty member has filed a discrimination lawsuit alleging she was unfairly fired.
Asian former faculty member at MSU’s Broad School files a federal discrimination suit
SUNDAY, June 23 — An Asian woman who was fired from her faculty position teaching management at Michigan State University has filed a discrimination lawsuit in federal court. The suit … more
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The old Eastern High School building on Pennsylvania Avenue, which University of Michigan Health-Sparrow has suggested it may tear down to make room for a psychiatric facility.
Community committee forms to save old Eastern High School and support mental health
FRIDAY, June 21 — Alumni of old Eastern High School, eastsiders and preservationists have formed a committee to work with the University of Michigan Health–Sparrow to ensure the … more
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Lansing's Charter Revision Commission discusses public outreach during its Tuesday meeting.
Lansing Revision Charter Commission moves forward with public engagement ideas
 WEDNESDAY, June 19 — The Lansing Charter Commission is moving forward with a plan to solicit public outreach through 48,000 mailers to households with at least one registered voter. … more
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The late Al Kresta, founder and president of Ave Maria Radio in Ann Arbor, hosting his show. Kresta died of liver cancer last week. A new Lansing radio station was his final project, Ave Maria vice president David Vacheresse said.
As Catholic radio seeks Lansing station, ex-listeners urge caution
Ann Arbor-based Catholic radio pioneer Ave Maria Radio has agreed to purchase a Greater Lansing station that would become the 11th to be fully owned and operated by the network. more
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer introduces congressional candidate Curtis Hertel Jr. today at a campaign event at the Lansing Shuffle.
Whitmer, Hertel hit abortion as campaign issue at Lansing event
WEDNESDAY, June 12 — Congressional candidate Curtis Hertel Jr., who is trying to make it to one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, got a boost today from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who many think has an eye on a job at the other end. more
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Old Eastern High School as it looked soon after completion in 1928. Pennsylvania Avenue, on the left, featured green islands. The entrance to the school auditorium is on the right along Jerome Street. Its architects, Pond & Pond, were brothers who studied at the University of Michigan. The building’s fate is in the hands of U of M’s regents.
‘Do it right’
  “What was it like in the early days when Eastern first opened its doors?” begins a history written for Eastern High School’s 50 th anniversary in 1978. … more
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University of Michigan Health-Sparrow proposes to turn the old Eastern High School into a psychiatric facility.
Fate of old Eastern HS building uncertain as U of M-Sparrow plans psychiatric facility
Eastern High School will become a $97.2 million psychiatric facility operated by University of Michigan Health-Sparrow, it confirmed today. "With approximately 1.7 million Michigan residents … more
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Luna Brown, a transgender woman from Lansing, began taking steps to bring an LGBTQ+ homeless shelter known as A Place For Us to the region last October. Her goal is to provide a secular alternative to the largest shelter in the city, the City Rescue Mission, which requires guests to attend a daily Christian chapel service.
‘A Place For Us’
In 2019, SJ Therese fled an abusive home situation and checked in at the City Rescue Mission’s women and children's shelter. Therese, a lesbian, stayed there for a couple of weeks before … more
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Former President Donald Trump during a rally at Capital City International Airport on Oct. 29, 2020, a week before his defeat for a second term.
Lansing residents, visitors' reactions mixed to Trump's guilty verdict
A jury of 12 Manhattan residents found former President Donald J. Trump guilty on 34 felony counts yesterday, making him the first president in United States history to  be convicted of a felony.  This morning, City Pulse interviewed pedestrians in downtown Lansing on their thoughts on the monumental verdict. more
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Residents of Grange Acres, a subsidized senior citizens apartment complex in Haslett, protesting an order to eliminate their private gardens.
Seniors fight to save their gardens at Grange Acres in Haslett
Joan “Ma” Kittle, a seven-year resident of the Grange Acres senior housing community in Haslett, isn’t able to work on her small garden plot as much as she’d like to these … more
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Protesters seeking housing-rental reform picket the Lansing Center last week during the Building Michigan Communities Conference sponsored by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
As rental prices rise, so does tenant activism
Shawn Brock was rendered homeless recently when he could not afford his rent due to expenses from a medical condition. Last week, Brock was one of 100 people who gathered outside the Lansing Center to picket for tenants’ rights. more
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The BBC will host its June World Questions series debate in front of a live audience at the Lansing Center on June 4.
BBC’s World Questions' series to host a debate in Lansing
FRIDAY, May 17 — The British Broadcasting Corp. will bring its “World Questions” program to Lansing June 4, when local panelists are set to debate questions on national issues … more
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Basil poses in Ingham County Circuit Court today, where she took the oath to serve as the court's victim support dog.
Ingham Court Circuit Court swears in an emotional support dog
WEDNESDAY, May 15 — The Ingham County Circuit Court welcomed its newest canine advocate today. Chief Judge Joyce Draganchuk swore in Basil, a 2-year-old lab and golden retriever mix who will serve as an emotional support animal at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, 313 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing. more
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Lansing School District Superintendent Benjamin Schuldiner announces that the district was recently one of 13 recipients of the U.S. Department of Energy's 2024 Efficient and Healthy Schools program award.
Lansing School District named one of 13 recipients of federal energy efficiency award
WEDNESDAY, May 15 — The Lansing School District is one of just 13 districts nationwide to be named a 2024 recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2024 Efficient and Healthy Schools program award. more
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Ryan Kost (left), the First Ward Councilmember who opposed moving City Hall to the Masonic Temple, joins Mayor Andy Schor at a press conference announcing the plan to build the new city hall at the corner of Grand Avenue and Lenawee Street.
At long last: A city hall plan that may actually stick
The road to a new Lansing city hall has been about as smooth as most roads in Lansing and elsewhere in Michigan: full of potholes. more
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