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Ben Dowd grew up in the shadow of a non-defunct air force base in Oscoda, Michigan. Wurtsmith Air Force Base was decommissioned in 1993, straddling Iosco and Oscoda counties in northeastern Michigan. …
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Todd Heywood
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6/15/23
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Juneteenth, a national holiday since 2021 and a state holiday in Michigan since 2020, honors the official end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, hundreds of thousands of African …
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Nicole Noechel
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6/15/23
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Ken Beachler, the founding executive director of the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts and a leading member of the Lansing theatrical community, has died. He was 87.
The cause of his death …
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Staff
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6/7/23
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SATURDAY, June 3 — Attorneys for Council Member Jeffrey Brown are arguing the Lansing Ethics Board should dismiss a “frivolous” complaint that resulted in an independent …
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By TODD HEYWOOD
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6/3/23
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FRIDAY, June 2 — Lansing City Council Member Jeffrey Brown violated the city’s ethics ordinance on two fronts, a report by an independent attorney found after investigating a complaint by …
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Todd Heywood
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6/2/23
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FRIDAY, May 19 —Eaton County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution encouraging the county prosecutor and sheriff not to enforce “unconstitutional” gun laws.
“This …
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Todd Heywood
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5/19/23
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Updated plans for the new Public Safety Complex in Lansing include a proposal to demolish the South Washington Office Complex, affecting three city operations and a United Way service that are housed …
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Todd Heywood
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5/17/23
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WEDNESDAY, May 17 — An Okemos High School student has won the 2023 Congressional High School Art Competition in the 7 th Congressional District, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin announced today.
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5/17/23
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FRIDAY, May 12 — Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sarah Anthony, every other elected Democratic legislator from the mid-Michigan region and 50 other elected and non-elected leaders came …
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Kyle Melinn and Todd Heywood
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5/12/23
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The City of Lansing has red-tagged about 700 residences, meaning Code Compliance Office inspectors have found them unsafe to occupy. Of those residences, 21 have been red-tagged at least 10 years.
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5/11/23
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WEDNESDAY, May 10 — A local developer has proposed building a townhouse-style complex with as many as 240 apartments in a blighted residential area near Saginaw Street and Pennsylvania Avenue …
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Todd Heywood
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5/10/23
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WEDNESDAY, April 26 — NASA astronaut and Space Station commander Terry Virts is a thumbs-up, can-do NASA astronaut and U.S. Army colonel in the classic “Right Stuff” vein. But …
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By LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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4/27/23
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Are you one of those readers who like to open a biography in the middle, to get to the good stuff? You don’t care what Napoleon or Catherine the Great did in diapers? …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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4/27/23
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THURSDAY, April 20 — REO Elementary School pupils on the city’s south side have been attending classes virtually since April 9 after the school was contaminated by soot from the school’s playground equipment being set on fire on Easter Friday.
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Todd Heywood
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4/20/23
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WEDNESDAY, March 29 — The recently retired head of Lansing’s Code Enforcement Office, which has been under fire over building inspection issues, said he quit because he was sick of …
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Todd Heywood
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3/29/23
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TUESDAY, March 21 — Disabilities now account for the top type of discrimination complaints to the Department of Civil Rights. “Disability has now outpaced race, in terms of those …
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Jack Timothy Harrison
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3/21/23
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MONDAY, March 20 — Just 16 days after announcing he’d formed an exploratory committee to look at running for the 7th Congressional seat, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor announced by email he …
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Todd Heywood and Berl Schwartz
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3/20/23
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Andy Schor can pinpoint when he decided against running for Congress.
The Lansing mayor announced an exploratory campaign just two and a half weeks ago. But between now and then, he and his wife, …
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Berl Schwartz
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3/20/23
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FRIDAY, March 17 — Ingham County Circuit Judge Joyce Draganchuk has ordered all of the handwritten filings by Lansing marijuana entrepreneur Michael Doherty in his receivership case stricken …
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Todd Heywood
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3/17/23
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While Phillips Orchards & Cider Mill’s Lansing outpost opened at the end of December, there’s another development to celebrate. Last week, the St. Johns-based company began offering its boozy beverages …
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Lizy Ferguson
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3/16/23
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