With a surge in absentee voting across the country, immediate results were not expected. But it hasn't made the wait any easier more than 16 hours after polls closed on Election Day.
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Sean Bradley & Skyler Ashley
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11/4/20
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With less than four hours remaining until polls close this evening, hundreds of voters have already made it out to cast their votes across Greater Lansing today.
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Kyle Kaminski and Sean Bradley
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11/3/20
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The Lansing City Council will vote next month on a vaguer version of a resolution that had initially called for cutting in half the Police Department budget over the next five years. Instead, the new proposal calls for “significant” budget cuts with no set time frame.
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Still haven’t made plans to vote on or before Tuesday, Nov. 3? We’ve got you covered.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/29/20
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Six days away from the most consequential election of our lifetime. Six days before a national reckoning that will change the course of American history
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Staff
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10/29/20
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Officials at the Ingham County Health Department are beefing up coronavirus-related crowd restrictions on outdoor gatherings in East Lansing ahead of this Saturday’s football game between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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10/29/20
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Michigan requires political candidates to report donations and expenditures of their campaigns, but it can be challenging to track them.
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BRANDON CHEW AND TAYLOR HAELTERMAN
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10/29/20
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Leading up to the 2020 election, candidates for sheriff in Michigan’s 10 most populated counties received over $69,000 in in-kind campaign contributions – items as diverse as sporting tickets, cigars, a crossbow and a vacuum cleaner.
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KYLE DAVIDSON AND JOSH VALIQUETTE
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10/29/20
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Michigan reports that African Americans make up at least 22% of confirmed COVID-19 cases and at least 38% of deaths — but are only 14.1% of the state’s population.
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Ri'an Jackson
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10/29/20
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Marilyn Baley is part of a unique group of Trump supporters: Gays for Trump.
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Sean Bradley
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10/27/20
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At least $500,000 of $600,000 in campaign funds raised by candidates in Ingham and Eaton counties has already been spent on Nov. 3's general electionn.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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10/23/20
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The Michigan Department of Corrections spends $3 million each week for testing and staff expenses related to the spike of COVID-19 cases in some prisons.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/23/20
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Bazonzoes Provisioning center wants to be the first chain of stores selling medical and adult-use marijuana.
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SEAN BRADLEY
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10/23/20
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor and developer Pat Gillespie celebrated the “official opening” of Lansing’s first downtown grocery store with connected loft apartments this afternoon with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the highly anticipated BLOCK600 project.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/21/20
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Marilyn Crowley would come to the Allen Neighborhood Center’s farmer market as a local student.
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Sean Bradley
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10/21/20
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George Platsis recognizes that Greater Lansing’s leftward lean isn’t helping as he looks to block Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney Carol Siemon from her second term this November.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/21/20
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The city of Charlotte is gaining some newfound national acclaim after its downtown was named this week to the National Register of Historic Places.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/20/20
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U.S. President Donald Trump will get four more years as president. So proclaimed Trump’s second son, Eric Trump, at a rally today at Schlegel Sand & Gravel, on Wood Road in Lansing.
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Sean Bradley
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10/20/20
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Donald Trump’s second son is slated to make a campaign stop tomorrow afternoon in Lansing at Schlegel Sand and Gravel on Wood Road.
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Staff
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10/19/20
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A bill signed into law last week will allow Lansing City Council meetings to continue virtually after a Michigan Supreme Court ruling led to the cancellation of multiple meetings this month.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/19/20
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