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“ICE is picking people up regardless,” Juan Marinez said at a meeting Tuesday, May 6, of area Latino leaders at Cristo Rey Church in southwest Lansing. “They look Mexican, so they get picked up even though they’re here legally.”
Lansing’s Latino community fearful as ICE tactics escalates
“Not even a school or a hospital is safe at this point,” Dora Moran told a room of Lansing-area Latino advocates fearful about the Trump administration’s immigration policies. more
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Marketing for last year’s neighborhood summit sponsored by the city of Lansing’s Neighborhood, Arts and Civic Engagement Department.
Working out our differences one block at a time
I’ve been thinking lately about the role that organized neighborhood groups might play in countering the tendency these days to isolate ourselves in like-minded communities while resisting … more
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Eyesore of the Week
A resident or traveler on Cleveland Street on the north side of Lansing is greeted with two boarded-up houses next to each other in the 900 block, more
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Coffee talk: U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett at Biggby in Charlotte on Friday, April 25, near the end of a two-week congressional recess.
Rep. Barrett promises honest answers, albeit sometimes circuitous
Even with a notebook full of questions, one curiosity lingered as I waited for U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, to meet me for an interview at his hometown Biggby: what his drink order would be. more
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Lansing NAACP Branch President Harold A. Pope addresses a packed room in the United Association Local 333 Plumbers & Pipefitters union hall.
Barrett constituents express concerns about immigration, wealth inequality
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 — There was a line out the door and a full room last night for a 7th Congressional District town hall hosted by the Lansing NAACP branch. “As you are aware, … more
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Eyesore of the Week
A trash-strewn property plus used toilet paper in the yard and hanging from a front deck railing are just a few reasons this 50-year-old, 707-square-foot home, more
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Schor draws 4 Lansing primary challengers; 14 seek Council positions
Here are the candidates who filed to run in the Aug. 5 city of Lansing primary election for mayor, clerk and the City Council. The filing deadline was 4 p.m. Tuesday. more
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50501 Michigan organizer Colton Hughes on the state Capitol steps at the April 5 “Hands Off!” rally.
‘I’ve never had to hide who I am’: 50501’s Colton Hughes
When Colton Hughes walked onto the state Capitol grounds March 4, he was just like every other protester there: angry with the Trump administration and wanting to do something about it. more
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U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (left) and Harold A. Pope, president of the NAACP's Lansing branch. Barrett turned down Pope's invitation to appear in person at a town hall scheduled for Tuesday.
Barrett passes on another town hall during next week's congressional recess
FRIDAY, APRIL 18 — The president of Lansing’s NAACP branch expressed disappointment today that U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, will not attend next week’s town hall meeting with … more
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MSU police handcuff a protester, one of 19 arrested during a sit-in in the Hannah Administration Building organized by the Hurriya Coalition
MSU protest peril: Revoked visas fuel fear
It was a rare occurrence: an activist group asking people not to protest. more
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Photo by Raymond Holt WLNS’ new fence was being built this week along Saginaw Street on Lansing’s east side.
WLNS fortifies the Fourth Estate with 8-foot fence
WLNS-TV is building an 8-foot-tall wrought iron fence with spikes in front of its Saginaw Street headquarters after the Lansing Board of Zoning Appeals denied its request last year for a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. more
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Paul Gentilozzi, of Gentilozzi Real Estate, at Monday’s groundbreaking ceremony for Tower on Grand: “For the next two years, we’re going to build Lansing’s tallest building.”
Work begins on downtown Lansing’s grandest vision
Since the pandemic sent state employees home, a debate has persisted over downtown’s future. more
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Protest
Thousands flocked to the state Capitol Saturday to protest the Trump administration as part of a national, coordinated “Hands Off!” rally — one of an estimated 1,400 across the country. more
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Dusty Horwitt
Former commissioner seeks BWL reforms in city charter
A former Lansing Board of Water & Light commissioner has proposed the city charter be changed to require the City Council to pick the BWL’s internal auditor instead of the public utility’s Board of Commissioners. more
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Lansing law criminalizing ‘opposite sex’ restroom sees likely repeal
A resolution to repeal part of Lansing’s restroom ordinance seems likely to pass, following strong public support at a public hearing. more
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Constituents will have an opportunity to question U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett at a town hall Monday that his office announced today, but by telephone, not in person, as demonstrators demanded at this March 21 protest outside the Charlotte Republican's downtown Lansing field office.
Barrett sets telephone town hall for Monday night
THURSDAY, APRIL 3 — Rep. Tom Barrett, R-Charlotte, announced his second telephone town hall this morning.  The event will begin at  7:30 p.m. Monday.  Barrett will be in … more
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A 1936 postcard of Eastern High School in its glory days. On the right is the entrance to Jon Young auditorium.
Too little, too late dictated old Eastern’s fate
When old Eastern High School’s iconic cupola was torn to pieces Thursday despite assurances from University of Michigan Health-Sparrow that it would be saved, a sense of urgency reverberated through Lansing. more
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The cupola, which was atop the west wing when Eastern opened in 1928, as it appeared last week before the demolition crew destroyed it.
Bits of Eastern survive
The cupola, wood paneling, a folk-art mural, many of the auditorium’s 1,660 seats, apparently all 16 of the Art Deco/Craftsman chandeliers that hung above, hundreds of Flint Faience tiles … those were just some of the artifacts lost in old Eastern’s demolition. more
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The cupola, which was atop the west wing when Eastern opened in 1928, as it appeared last week before the demolition crew destroyed it.
‘They were never going to do it’
Ray Ellison knows a thing or two about salvaging Lansing demolition sites — he’s been doing it since the 1960s. more
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Photographer Raymond Holt captured what remained of the Jon Young Auditorium this morning as a demolition crew prepared to finish tearing down old Eastern High School landmark building on Pennsylvania Avenue north of Michigan Avenue to make room for University of Michigan Health-Sparrow expansion plans.
Eastern is all but gone: Rubble and memories remain
SATURDAY, March 30 — Anyone wanting to see the inside of the Jon Young Auditorium of old Eastern High School — what's left of it — should head there this weekend. Beyond … more
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