Capital Area District Libraries’ leadership is considering moving its downtown branch out of the Clarence H. Rosa Library and into a different space within the surrounding blocks. Director Jenny Marr
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By DAVID MCCARTHY
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11/6/24
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Back when Todd Cook was a young staffer for U.S. Rep. Bob Carr, D-East Lansing, an MSU professor named Jim Anderson sent a package to Carr’s Washngton office.
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By Kyle Melinn
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11/6/24
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Politicians go to great lengths to convince us they’re the right person to represent us. They run folksy television ads, record topical videos on social media, and send countless mail …
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10/30/24
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The story about Trump University was in all the papers. Trump “faculty” standing over students as they filled out their “course evaluations.”
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By SANDRA SEATON
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10/30/24
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With 84 million voters, American white women are the largest voting block in the U.S. today. To quote the Virginia Slims cigarette commercial, “You’ve come a long way, baby!
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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10/30/24
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As cataclysmic as the prospect of a second Donald Trump or a Kamala Harris presidency may seem to you, either one is better than blood on the streets.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/30/24
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(The writer is the Democratic mayor of Lansing.)
With all the ridiculous things he’s said, it might have been easy to miss that Donald Trump actually did lay out his plan for the future of …
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ANDY SCHOR
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10/29/24
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I was the executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, back during a time when the GOP embraced values like fiscal discipline and a strong foreign policy.
I voted for Nikki …
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Excuse me a minute. I’m tweeting that Donald Trump is flying into Traverse City’s airport Friday evening for another rally.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/23/24
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Michigan workers are on the move. Last year, UAW members won a game-changing strike against the Big 3 automakers, and UPS workers won a historic contract by mobilizing for a nationwide strike.
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By DONALD LEPARD
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10/23/24
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As staff coordinator of the Ingham County Housing Trust Fund and a member of the Shared-Use Housing Advocacy Network, I believe our community must encourage a diverse range of housing options in order to be responsive to local housing needs.
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By Diana Bartlett
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10/16/24
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What’s wrong with a ‘regular guy’?
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By Melany Mack
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10/16/24
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When the University of Michigan was faced with a deteriorating Michigan Union building, tearing it down wasn’t considered. The1919 iconic structure designed by noted Chicago Architects Pond and Pond was restored in 2020 for $86.2 million.
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By BILL CASTANIER
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10/16/24
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Since Michigan State University’s governing body was first appointed in 1861, the board has always had a Republican on it.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/16/24
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One of the great ironies in today’s political climate is how we undervalue experience in the government.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/10/24
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For a decade, the stretch of Michigan Avenue between Frandor Shopping Center and the Red Cedar District (formerly Red Cedar Golf Course) has been the focus of ambitious development plans to connect East Lansing and Michigan State University with the city of Lansing.
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By JOAN NELSON
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10/2/24
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We’ve seen Curtis Hertel push his lawnmower around and Tom Barrett take a helicopter for a spin. But a couple of other TV ads in the Lansing-based MI-7 congressional race need explaining.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/2/24
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Like it or not, the Lansing area is, again, ground zero for one of the nation’s most competitive and expensive congressional elections.
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By KYLE MELINN
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9/26/24
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Kamala Harris says we’re not going back, but these past two weeks has me hearing the refrain to a popular 2010 junkanoo band song by Baha Men. The song refrain was, “Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who let the dogs out?”
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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9/26/24
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When my husband and I decided we were ready to be parents, we didn’t anticipate the possibility that we wouldn’t be able to conceive on our own.
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By Penelope Tsernoglou
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9/26/24
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