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For some parents working in the private sector in 2024, taking paid time off after the new child comes into the family is expected.
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By Kyle Melinn
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9/12/24
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I was in Hunter Park recently attending Allen Neighborhood Center’s Summer Art Festival and ran into some old friends. We were marveling at how beautiful the park has become and the many delightful amenities it features.
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By JOAN NELSON
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9/4/24
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Isn’t it sad that politics has become the third rail of a conversation?
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For two months now I have been engaged in my sorority’s GOTV efforts. GOTV stands for Get Out the Vote.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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8/29/24
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Making political headway within the Democratic Party as a pro-Palestinian supporter has become like yelling into a vacuum.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/29/24
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If you can name all eight state Board of Education members without googling it, you are better than I.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/22/24
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The Lansing City Council must move quickly to prevent the University of Michigan from dismantling old Eastern High School's interior.
The focus in this controversy over preserving one of our …
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Back in February, I wrote in this space how Michigan House Republicans were in the driver’s seat to regain the majority of seats this fall.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/14/24
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There is an emotional attachment to old schools. Generations of students may have passed through a particular school; participated in community activities or attended sporting events; or perhaps even worked as a teacher, bus driver or a school cook, as my Mom did for over a decade.
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By JOAN NELSON
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8/7/24
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Remember the Mike Rogers of early 2014? Before our then-8th District congressman said he was hanging up his seat for a radio show microphone?
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8/7/24
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Any number of emotions and ideas whirl in me as I continue to absorb the news about Kamala Harris, a Black American woman now one of two major party candidates to be the next president.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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7/31/24
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(The writer is a professor in the Romance and Classical Studies Department at Michigan State University. A masked gunman broke into his class on Feb. 13, 2023, killing two of his students and injuring five others.)
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By MARCO DIAZ-MUNOZ
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7/31/24
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I disagree with Kyle Melinn’s assertion (July 24) that Democrats are “rolling over democracy” by uniting behind Vice President Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate.
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7/31/24
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My heart sank reading about the possibility of U of M Health Sparrow converting the Eastern High School building into a psychiatric facility.
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7/31/24
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The Lansing area’s hottest Aug. 6 primary race isn’t a national, state or even countywide contest.
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By Kyle Melinn
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7/31/24
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University of Michigan Health–Sparrow is listening.
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By BERL SCHWARTZ
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7/25/24
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President Joe Biden’s decision to mercifully abandon his reelection plans came two years too late and has put his Democratic Party in a self-induced crisis.
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By Kyle Melinn
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7/25/24
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Until former President Donald Trump was shot in the ear, the popular parlor game among the national media was listing the Democratic congressional types who were urging President Joe Biden to pass the torch to ... well, anybody else.
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By Kyle Melinn
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7/18/24
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(The writer has lived in the Lansing area for over 35 years. She worked for the state Legislature and for the Michigan Education Association.)
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By Christina Canfield
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7/11/24
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(The writer is president of Preservation Lansing and holds master’s degrees in historic preservation and urban and regional planning from Ball State University. She is also a University of Michigan alumna. She is a Committee to Preserve Historic and Promote Mental Health member.)
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By MARY OLDS TOSHACH
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7/11/24
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