While coronavirus-related safety measures ramp up near Michigan State University, local health officials are growing increasingly concerned for their personal safety.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/18/20
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Two businesses in Lansing are facing thousands of dollars in state fines for failing to follow workplace safety requirements, including a lack of face masks.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/17/20
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A 21-year-old Lansing woman is facing six felony charges in connection to a house fire that killed a 53-year-old grandmother and her two grandkids.
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Staff
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9/17/20
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On Nov. 3 voters in Eaton County will choose between Sheriff Tom Reich, a two-term incumbent, and former state Sen. Rick Jones, who was sheriff for four years before being elected to the state Legislature.
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9/17/20
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A recent spike in COVID-19 cases tied almost exclusively to parties near Michigan State University has forced local health officials into crisis mode as Ingham County quickly becomes the top coronavirus hotspot in Michigan, according to data tracked by state officials.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/15/20
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The Lansing City Council moved one step closer tonight to issuing $12 million in tax assessments to residents that could begin arriving this winter and would cover about two-thirds the cost of Ingham County Drain Commissioner Pat Lindemann’s $34.8 million Montgomery Drain reconstruction project.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/14/20
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This story was updated at 9:45 a.m.
TUESDAY, Sept. 15 — A discounted rental offered to the developers of the old Lansing City Market building is expected to be offset with annual savings in …
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/14/20
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“Aston and Jesse were good kids who loved their grandma and their family,” Bernero said. “If they were anything like me as a kid, I’m sure they were not perfect angels. But they are now.”
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/14/20
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About two dozen local organizers marched to Mayor Andy Schor’s house last night to demand that he “act with urgency” on police defunding, the group’s representative said today.
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9/11/20
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None of the eight employees at Joe’s Gizzard City in Potterville wear face masks.
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Forty apartments overlooking the Stadium District are available for lease as construction nears completion on a grocery store and the first hotel to come to downtown Lansing in two decades.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/11/20
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Library patrons may not be spending hours browsing the stacks for new reads, but Michigan librarians are still busy quarantining books and shipping them to eager readers.
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Taylor Haelterman
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9/11/20
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Half a million Michigan families could risk eviction by the end of the year without financial help from the federal government, housing advocates say.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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9/11/20
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Some school officials in Michigan report that students seem to be in a better mood returning to in-person classes after they were abruptly sent to virtual learning in March.
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Tasia Bass
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9/11/20
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Additional space could be available soon for those struggling with homelessness as the City Rescue Mission of Lansing charts expansion in the 600 block of Michigan Avenue.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/10/20
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Regional health officials are tracking a recent spike in local drug overdose deaths from the three months following the arrival of COVID-19 in Greater Lansing.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/9/20
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New to Greater Lansing, but not so much to the cannabis industry, Bazonzoes Provisioning Center opens tomorrow on Lansing’s north side at 2101 W. Willow St.
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Shauna Stocken
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9/9/20
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Plans were announced today to lease the city-owned building to Detroit developer and turn the cavernous pole barn into a multi-use community hub called the Lansing Shuffleboard & Social Club. The 12-year-old building has been largely empty since 2018, save for the Waterfront Bar & Grill, which fought eviction until last fall.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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9/8/20
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Notably absent? An actual reduction to the Lansing Police Department’s $46.5 million budget.
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The idea behind the policy, Police Chief Daryl Green has said, is to limit unnecessary police contact and curb the disproportionate impact that enforcement has on people of color.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/4/20
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