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Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson kicked up the hornet’s nest last week when she tossed around the idea of keeping former President Donald Trump off the primary ballot due to his various indictments.
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By Kyle Melinn
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9/7/23
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While I was a professor with the Lansing Community College writing program, part of my job was to help grade students’ writing. Their writing was keyed to class assignments. The one I hated was the one where students were assigned to write about a photograph.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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8/31/23
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If you think you’ve had a bad day, go talk to poor Perry Johnson. Michigan’s own “quality guru,” who wanted to be governor so badly he spent $7 million of his own money on a campaign that imploded at takeoff last year ...
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By KYLE MELINN
Capital News Service | 8/24/23 |
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Let’s start with what the City Pulse Fund is, which is an educational nonprofit. It was organized in 2019 in accordance with section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Service code. Its officers are me as president, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Eric Freedman as vice president and longtime City Pulse contributor Bill Castanier as secretary.
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By BERL SCHWARTZ
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8/24/23
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I am calling on Sen. Debbie Stabenow to ask her to support the Save America’s Forgotten Equine (“SAFE”) Act, a bill that would permanently ban the domestic slaughter of American horses as well as the export of horses for slaughter abroad.
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8/17/23
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12-year-old Tashawn Bernard is a victim of racial profiling. The Lansing Police Department made a very wrong mistake by not investigating deeper into the arrest detaining Tashawn.
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8/17/23
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I am writing this rebuttal to the article “Black opioid deaths at crisis levels in Lansing area” (July 26).
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By MICHAEL D. PICCIANO
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8/17/23
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Paul Gentilozzi, the guy who sold men’s clothing out of an old shop off South Washington Avenue in the 1960s, is putting his name behind a $215 million housing development project to jumpstart a struggling downtown.
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by KYLE MELINN
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8/17/23
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Along with their rural counterparts, Lansing’s urban farmers have found a convivial setting for selling their products in farmers markets. Twenty years ago, the region had two markets: Downtown Lansing City Market and Meridian Market. Today, mid-Michigan has 15 to 20!
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By JOAN NELSON
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8/10/23
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Over one-sixth of our country is made up of people over 65. I’m a member of that group. And I am one of the lucky ones. I have a pension, social security and retirement investments that give me an income that matches my working income.
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By DONNA MULLINS
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8/3/23
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We were frankly floored by last week’s unanimous City Council vote (with one member absent) to refer an unfounded ethics complaint against Mayor Andy Schor to an external firm for further investigation.
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8/3/23
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In 1999, when I started my teaching career in earnest, Lansing Community College hired me as an adjunct, meaning part time. My hiring interview was at 5 p.m. with a senior faculty member who was …
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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7/27/23
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her legislative compadres popped the Champagne this week on spending a historic amount of money — in the most secretive process in state history.
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By KYLE MELINN
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7/20/23
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After his somewhat surprising election to an at-large seat in 2021, Lansing City Council newcomer Jeffrey Brown is now taking heat for alleged ethical lapses during his first 18 months in office. In …
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7/6/23
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Are you noticing the growing number of news reports about horrific food shortages the world over?
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Joan Nelson
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7/6/23
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T he Michigan Republican Party is catastrophically collapsing harder and faster than even its skeptics imagined.
We’re talking about the state “Michigan Republican Party” here, …
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Kyle Melinn
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7/6/23
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Some of my smartest students were the ones training for the technical trades. I will never forget the Black woman who was already working as a sound engineer but …
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Dedria Humphries Barker
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6/29/23
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Pardon me if I’m not running around with my hair on fire because Michigan’s population isn’t exploding at the seams.
Don’t listen to the outrage police. You don’t …
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Kyle Melinn
Capital News Service | 6/29/23 |
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It wasn’t an endorsement, but it most definitely wasn’t a punch in the nose either.
At a Livingston County event last week, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin urged attendees to recruit former …
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Kyle Melinn
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6/22/23
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The Michigan House is considering adding Michigan to the states that will guarantee that whichever presidential candidate receives the most votes nationally actually wins the presidency.
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Kyle Melinn
Capital News Service | 6/15/23 |
