Fentanyl testing strips legal and widely used in Michigan
LANSING – New dollars distributed to groups fighting substance abuse can be used to purchase strips that test whether drug dealers cut heroin or other street drugs with often-deadly …
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The real Justice League
“This world’s a ship on its passage out; and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow,” Herman Melville wrote in “Moby Dick.” A growing group of faith …
Westside Neighborhood wins: Traffic islands to be spared from sewer work
The historic planted islands in the Westside Neighborhood will be restored following sewer work next year, thanks largely to two grants to the city of Lansing. But residents, who fought to save the islands, are not out of the woods yet ...
Homeowners write out racism in residential property deeds
Growing up in Lansing, Ingham County Register of Deeds Derrick Quinney has seen racism on multiple levels — from neighbors, from the state and from laws that told his family where they were and were not allowed to live. …
Shooting aftermath: Should MSU be a less open campus?
In 2021, Lansing Community College locked down its downtown campus buildings. Access was limited to those holding a card issued to students, faculty and staff. LCC made the quiet move, “in response to fewer people in the …
Shiawassee County refuses to release personnel file on sheriff
FRIDAY, February 17 —- The Shiawasee County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday night to refuse to release the personnel file of Douglas Chapman. The move was in response to an appeal of a …
Eaton County Board of Commissioners rejects gun violence resolution
FRIDAY, Feb. 17 — As thousands took part in a vigil at Michigan State University to remember the victims of Monday’s mass shooting, the Eaton County Board of Commissioners voted 8-7 along party lines Wednesday against a resolution that called for comprehensive gun legislation …
It’s all coming together at The Junction
The building that houses The Junction, a recently opened music and event venue, formerly housed, to the best of my knowledge, The Brass Monkey, Wayside bar, Sparty’s Night …
Criminal enforcement coming for Lansing’s red-tagged property owners
City officials are preparing to charge property owners with criminal misdemeanors misdemeanors for allowing people to live in red-tagged housing.
“We’re ready,” City Attorney Jim Smiertka said Monday night …
Killer enters ‘no contest’ plea in 2018 ‘Red Barn’ homicide in Oneida Township
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15 — Joseph Sadlak, who admitted to killing Clinton "Billy" Decker in a brutal 2018 murder in Oneida Township has accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors. He faced …
The real Justice League
“This world’s a ship on its passage out; and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow,” Herman Melville wrote in “Moby Dick.” A growing group of faith …
Westside Neighborhood wins: Traffic islands to be spared from sewer work
The historic planted islands in the Westside Neighborhood will be restored following sewer work next year, thanks largely to two grants to the city of Lansing. But residents, who fought to save the islands, are not out of the woods yet ...
Homeowners write out racism in residential property deeds
Growing up in Lansing, Ingham County Register of Deeds Derrick Quinney has seen racism on multiple levels — from neighbors, from the state and from laws that told his family where they were and were not allowed to live. …
Shooting aftermath: Should MSU be a less open campus?
In 2021, Lansing Community College locked down its downtown campus buildings. Access was limited to those holding a card issued to students, faculty and staff. LCC made the quiet move, “in response to fewer people in the …
Shiawassee County refuses to release personnel file on sheriff
FRIDAY, February 17 —- The Shiawasee County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday night to refuse to release the personnel file of Douglas Chapman. The move was in response to an appeal of a …
Eaton County Board of Commissioners rejects gun violence resolution
FRIDAY, Feb. 17 — As thousands took part in a vigil at Michigan State University to remember the victims of Monday’s mass shooting, the Eaton County Board of Commissioners voted 8-7 along party lines Wednesday against a resolution that called for comprehensive gun legislation …
It’s all coming together at The Junction
The building that houses The Junction, a recently opened music and event venue, formerly housed, to the best of my knowledge, The Brass Monkey, Wayside bar, Sparty’s Night …
Criminal enforcement coming for Lansing’s red-tagged property owners
City officials are preparing to charge property owners with criminal misdemeanors misdemeanors for allowing people to live in red-tagged housing. “We’re ready,” City Attorney Jim Smiertka said Monday night …
Killer enters ‘no contest’ plea in 2018 ‘Red Barn’ homicide in Oneida Township
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15 — Joseph Sadlak, who admitted to killing Clinton "Billy" Decker in a brutal 2018 murder in Oneida Township has accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors. He faced …