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Pride flag burning captured on video Another Pride flag disappeared on Michigan Avenue in Lansing — but this time a secret camera captured the deed on video. It shows the perpetrator, a lanky …
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Todd Heywood
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6/29/22
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MONDAY, June 27 — Lansing Mayor Andy Schor proposed today asking voters to approve a $175 million facility to house the Police and Fire departments as well as the 54-A District Court, to be paid …
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Todd Heywood
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6/27/22
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FRIDAY, June 24 — For years ago, a man rented a handgun at a gunstore in Mason for use on the indoor shooting range, but then left the store illegally with the gun. Shortly thereafter, he …
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Todd Heywood
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6/24/22
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Last year was a bloody, violent and deadly summer for Lansing residents. By the end of the year the city had 36 homicides on the books, the highest toll in years. Earlier this year, the city seemed …
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TODD HEYWOOD
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6/23/22
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When Mayor Andy Schor sought to nominate a local businessman to the city’s Economic Development Corp., he made an interesting discovery: He couldn’t.
“I had to call the …
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TODD HEYWOOD
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6/23/22
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Eastside residents were in an uproar last week when a third rainbow flag was stolen from a ‘Welcome to Lansing” sign on Michigan Avenue.
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Todd Heywood
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6/22/22
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MONDAY, June 20 — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent a chastising letter to the city of Lansing after a review of its policies and procedures for the use of Community …
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Todd Heywood
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6/20/22
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FRIDAY, June 17 – When Shawn Dyer read about the stolen Pride flags on the East of Lansing, he immediately knew he needed to do something. His daughter Aubrey, 18, is in the middle of coming …
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Todd Heywood
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6/17/22
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The Rev. Vincent Richardson of Cristo Rey Catholic Church has celebrated Mass for at least 14 parishioners whose deaths were related to COVID.
“When you know someone who dies or is …
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Todd Heywood
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6/16/22
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The last Eye for Design (below) was first identified by Robert Copeland. The detail — arched brickwork rising with the roofline — belongs to the Alice B. Cowles House on the campus of …
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JAMES KNARIAN
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6/16/22
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WEDNESDAY, June 15 -- State health officials are calling on clinicians and people at risk for monkeypox, particularly members of the gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men communities, to …
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6/15/22
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WEDNESDAY, June 15 – Eastside resident and activist Ryan Kost put the first rainbow flag on the ‘Welcome to Lansing” sign on Michigan Avenue near the US 127 overpass on June 1. He …
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6/15/22
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Dirt School is sponsored by various community organizations, including Capital Youth Cycling. The organization offers weekly sessions at the new $230,000 training facility. Bikes and helmets are available free.
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Todd Heywood
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6/13/22
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SATURDAY, June 11 — A Charlotte man has struck a plea deal with the Michigan Attorney General’s Office over felony charges stemming from a bomb threat directed at the state Capitol and a …
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Todd Heywood
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6/11/22
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Some stories are best told from below the ankle.
Four entangled bare feet — two white and two black —nestle playfully at the top of the last page of a new comic book that …
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Lawrence Cosentino
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6/9/22
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Marching down Woodward Avenue in Detroit on June 24, 1972, Greg Williams carried a hand-made posterboard sign that read “Come Out Flaming.” Flickers of fire drawn on each side echoed the …
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TIM RETZLOFF
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6/9/22
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As Roxanne Frith recalls it, she “just sort of ebbed and flowed into it.”
The “it” is Michigan Pride, for which she served as official photographer for 10 years or …
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Berl Schwartz
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6/9/22
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It was just supposed to be nude pictures for a gay men’s magazine, with a promised payday of a $1,000. The 16-year-old high school student from Mason, with the liquid courage of whiskey and two …
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Todd Heywood
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6/9/22
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A recently reinstated agreement between the federal and state governments will help farmers stay eco-friendly at no extra cost, officials say.
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SYDNEY BOWLER
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6/3/22
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When you think of a habitat, you might imagine a forest, river or desert.
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RAYNA SKIVER
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6/3/22
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