All sectors of employment in Michigan can return to in-person work under an updated set of state regulations that take effect on Monday. But employees still working remotely at many of Greater Lansing’s largest employers might not want to pack up their home offices quite yet.
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
5/19/21
|
It’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic pushed Jehovah’s Witnesses to stop knocking on doors.
more
Kyle Kaminski
|
5/16/21
|
The director of Lansing’s Department of Human Resources issued a warning on Facebook this week about the “second coming of Christ."
more
|
Voters across America are accustomed to going to the polls twice during election years, once in August and again in November. It’s a time-honored democratic tradition that most voters presume to be the best way — if not the only way — to choose their elected officials, from president of the United States to our representatives in the U.S. Congress, to local offices like mayor, clerk, council member and county commissioner.
more
|
Proposed property deed restrictions discriminating against transgender people, among others, could derail early plans for a local nonprofit to purchase and renovate the shuttered St. Casimir Catholic Church and Parish in Lansing.
more
TODD HEYWOOD
|
5/12/21
|
The last week brought good and bad news for Michigan residents amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news: The pandemic appears to be nearing a conclusion as vaccinations continue. And for some, the bad news: It may also be time to abandon that cozy home office.
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
5/12/21
|
Jesus Mora has spent more than half of his life in prison.
more
|
A proposal headed to the August ballot aims to maintain tax revenues for the Lansing Police and Fire departments and fund local road and sidewalk maintenance.
more
Kyle Kaminski
|
5/5/21
|
Hundreds of businesses will soon be eligible to apply for $11 million in grants.
more
Todd Heywood
|
5/5/21
|
“Nothing is softer and more yielding than water, yet nothing is better in attacking the solid and forceful,” teaches Chinese sage Laozi in the Dao de Ching.
more
|
Lansing residents could soon have the option to fundamentally shift how they elect their mayors, clerks and members of the City Council through a method that would consider second-choice preferences, eliminate primary elections and shift a wider candidate pool to the general election.
more
|
A Windsor Township resident and attorney who sued former Township Clerk and current At-Large Lansing City Council candidate Linda Keefe has a warning for local voters: Don't trust Keefe.
more
Todd Heywood
|
5/4/21
|
“We never, ever, approached Rina for sex. Ever. … I’ve got issues with my ex-wife. She’s my ex-wife, for God’s sake. But I can say with certainty that she’s not a sexual predator.”
Sam Dunbar
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
5/4/21
|
TUESDAY, May 4 — A voice that resembled that of Michael Lynn Jr., the co-leader of the Lansing chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement, spoke up at the public comment portion of last …
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
5/4/21
|
Research suggests that social media doesn’t provide the same benefits of real-life interactions.
more
Kyle Kaminski
|
5/3/21
|
Church attendance is down, and more houses of worship are predicted to close at an accelerated rate, a national report finds.
more
Sheldon Krause
|
5/3/21
|
Several local neighborhood Facebook groups were alive with questions overnight following reports that helicopters were circling over the city of Lansing.
more
Kyle Kaminski
|
4/30/21
|
Ronda Liskey and her son Roy have spent most of their lives in the small town of Laingsburg. And if all goes well after opening a pot shop there this month, they might just retire there too.
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
4/28/21
|
Four local school districts are leaning on new tax levies and millage renewals to drive renovations, new construction and other improvements for students in Greater Lansing.
more
Kyle Kaminski
|
4/28/21
|
A partnership between McLaren Greater Lansing and the Ingham County Health Department aims to vaccinate up to 4,000 people daily at a clinic at the Michigan State University Pavilion. Officials are averaging only about 1,400 doses administered there every day. The expansion — which began with staff assistance on Tuesday— ramps that rate up by 185%.
more
KYLE KAMINSKI
|
4/28/21
|