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Try to find any video, audio or any proof at all that Republican frontrunner Mike Rogers or Democratic frontrunner Elissa Slotkin have engaged in any real debates with their primary opponents in their U.S. Senate races.
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By Kyle Melinn
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4/11/24
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Lansing voters are now receiving absentee ballots for the city’s May 7 special election, in which nine members of the new Lansing Charter Commission will be selected.
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4/4/24
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In bringing his road show to Grand Rapids on Tuesday, the opportunistic Donald Trump drove home the murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia, whose death, presumably, came at the hands of an undocumented immigrant.
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By Kyle Melinn
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4/4/24
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I recently installed a charger in my garage to accommodate one of my rooming house boarders who drives an electric car.
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By JOAN NELSON
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4/4/24
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Revision is an undeniable part of writing. It’s when the writer sees what they have written and then sees it again. They rethink it. Ideas and purpose become clearer, and sometimes the message changes.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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3/28/24
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Lansing needs a new city hall.
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By ANDY SCHOR
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3/25/24
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Sunshine Week has mercifully set over the state Capitol. For the next 51 weeks, the media are spared from being reminded how lawmakers enticingly toy with expanding the state’s open record law … only for nothing to change.
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By Kyle Melinn
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3/21/24
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Democrats have launched their latest attempt to connect with middle- and working-class voters in the runup to the 2024 election — the ol’ tried-and-true tax cut.
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By Kyle Melinn
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3/14/24
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First, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn’t going to dismiss former Michigan State University Board Chair Rema Vassar or Trustee Dennis Denno based on the findings of an independent law firm charged with looking into their conduct.
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By Kyle Melinn
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3/7/24
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The MLK reconfiguration project was first sent out for bid in 2023 but received no bids. This would have been an ideal time to involve the community in decision making for this project.
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3/7/24
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For six years, Dave Muylle ran into regulatory roadblocks as he chased a dream: a cottage-style housing development on Lansing’s east side.
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By JOAN NELSON
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3/7/24
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Returning from spring break, my student told me that their parents planned a family vacation to Hawaii for her younger sibling’s spring school break. Could she go?
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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2/29/24
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It’s the subject Democrats don’t want to hear, but with Tuesday’s presidential primary in the rearview mirror, it’s the subject they can’t afford not to make a top priority.
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by KYLE MELINN
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2/29/24
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Why are we voting in this presidential primary again?
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By Kyle Melinn
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2/22/24
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Have you discounted the news media as a horde of fakes and narrative pushers? Do you rely on social media for your news and information on political candidates?
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By Kyle Melinn
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2/15/24
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There’s no clearer crystal ball into future political results than campaign finance reports.
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By Kyle Melinn
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2/8/24
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Good article in the January 10, 2024 about Airbnb’s in greater Lansing (To Airbnb, or not to Airbnb?”).
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2/8/24
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Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig should be the Republicans’ nominee for the U.S. Senate.
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By Kyle Melinn
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2/1/24
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This young Black male student had come over from Flint to attend Lansing Community College, but then he started skipping my class. When I asked about that, he said he was unhappy being the only Black person in the class. I asked a Black male science professor to talk with him.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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2/1/24
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Mayor Schor’s comments in “To Airbnb, or not to Airbnb” (Jan. 10) hit home for me as a rural dweller. Here is the mayor of Lansing concerned about losing local control.
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2/1/24
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