Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope is assuring residents that local ballot dropboxes are locked and secured after what he labeled as a “disingenuous” video was circulated last month by the Michigan Republican Party that showed an unlocked drop box in Lansing.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/7/20
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Purple Michigan is a six-part series reporting on the presidential campaign in Michigan in different locations across the state. This series is paid for by contributions from you to the City Pulse Fund for Community Journalism. To contribute, please go to lansingcitypulse.com/donation.
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Staff
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10/7/20
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At the Husted’s Farm Market, a woman plucking apples for her homemade pies and fritters shook her head when asked how she’d describe her community’s political behavior.
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SAMANTHA SHRIBER AND KYLE MELINN
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10/7/20
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In few places can an illegal landfill, once deserted and polluted by volatile organic compounds and random metals, be pursued as the site for a $40 million luxury apartment complex.
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SAMANTHA SHRIBER
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10/7/20
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When it comes to drain assessments, David Fisher is a two-time loser.
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Danielle James
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10/6/20
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The Democratic candidate for Ingham County commissioner from Lansing’s east side has declined to disclose his records on campaign spending to the media after he was questioned about whether he is violating the state’s reporting requirements.
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Berl Schwartz
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10/5/20
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Why do farmers join new farmers markets, especially in poor urban areas where the financial risk is greater than in more affluent communities?
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Eric Freedman
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10/3/20
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As the pandemic forces more students online, the lack of affordable broadband internet could cause lower performance of rural Michigan schoolchildren.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/3/20
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Solar energy newcomers and longtime aficionados can tour solar-powered homes virtually in Michigan and across the nation.
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Taylor Haelterman
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10/2/20
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Seasonal properties, vacant houses, the lack of internet, distrust of government and fewer census takers, not to mention the pandemic, are challenges to the 2020 U.S. census, especially in Michigan’s rural northern counties, census experts say.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/2/20
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Four years ago, American voters made a grave error. Electing a snake oil salesman instead of a stateswoman to hold our nation’s highest office has plunged the United States into a dark and dangerous period of division and delusion.
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The mother of a woman who was killed two years ago with a stolen handgun from Total Firearms in Mason is suing the firing range for alleged negligence.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/2/20
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Nobody knows better than a woman how to look in the mirror, see beauty and still decide there is room for enhancement. So don’t doubt my patriotism when I, an African American woman, write there is room for improvement in the visage of Michigan female voters. Especially White female voters.
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DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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10/1/20
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An Ingham County Commissioner is denying wrongdoing after he was accused this week of crossing multiple county ethics policies and state campaign finance laws by requesting campaign contributions to defeat his incumbent Republican colleague.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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9/30/20
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What happens if Proud Boys show up on Nov. 3 to be President Trump’s special poll watchers?
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Berl Schwartz
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9/30/20
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Up to 189 landlords and homeowners in Lansing with lead-based paint inside their homes can now apply for up to $16,000 in home improvements after city officials secured a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Staff
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9/29/20
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Lansing police officers will look a bit different over the next few months as they ditch their traditional powder blue uniforms for tactical vests and much darker shades of blue.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/29/20
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The coronavirus hasn’t totally canceled Halloween in Greater Lansing. Local and state officials are just urging extreme caution.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/29/20
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An obscure door tucked beneath one of the massive stone staircases outside of Michigan’s Capitol opens to reveal yet another steep stairwell leading deep below the building’s south side.
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David Poulson
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9/28/20
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The threat of losing your driver’s license for offenses unrelated to dangerous driving would be eliminated under bills pushed by advocates for low-income Michigan residents.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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9/28/20
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