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It’s time once again for Lansing and East Lansing voters to choose representatives to serve on their respective city councils. Sadly, less than 20% of eligible voters are expected to participate in the off-year,
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10/19/23
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By now, we all know the pro-choice/reproductive freedom movement propelled Democrats last year to their best ballot victories in a generation.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/19/23
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Sunday’s shooting death of Ted Lawson as he campaigned door-to-door for Lansing City Council candidate Trini Lopez Pehlivanoglu on a neighborhood street can’t be simply chalked up as a sad tragedy and the city’s ninth homicide of the year.
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Kyle Melinn
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10/12/23
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Access to broadband internet during the Coronavirus pandemic was one of the most significant and advantageous tools for families, students and workers during a historic, frightening period of world history.
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By SEAN HOLLAND
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10/12/23
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A unique new housing co-op that will mix young adult refugees with native-born Americans is coming to Lansing.
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By JOAN NELSON
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10/5/23
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My student was so looking forward to getting his new laptop computer. While he waited, he wasn’t doing his writing assignments. Then he stopped coming to class.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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9/28/23
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Last week, state Rep. Karen Whitsett, D-Detroit, derailed progressive Democrats’ plan to roll back more than 40 years of assorted abortion restrictions and barriers
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By Kyle Melinn
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9/28/23
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Assisted Outpatient Treatment — AOT —is an effective tool to help individuals with serious mental health conditions who are caught in a cycle of repeat hospitalizations, homelessness and incarcerations.
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By KATREVA BISBEE and MARGARET KEELER
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9/28/23
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When I left Lansing in 2009 after high school, I was convinced Lansing was a small, dead-end town with no redeeming qualities. After a decade in the heart of the sprawling, affluent and cultured metropolis of Dallas, followed by two years of world travel, I am thrilled to be returning home to “little old Lansing.” And I’m not the only one.
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By EVAN B. CARR
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9/21/23
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Agitated that other priorities have taken center stage in the early days of the Democratic-controlled Legislature, labor leaders convinced the state House to take up measures this week to repeal the …
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Kyle Melinn
Capitol News Service MIRS | 3/9/23 |
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On any given night, in any emergency department at any hospital in Michigan, the people needing care include a patient in need of mental health services who is held in a room for hours, sometimes days …
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Jacob Kagan and Peggy Johnson
Bridge Magazine | 3/7/23 |
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It’s 8:30 at night and you’re in the living room watching TV with your kids, when you hear a knock at the door. You go to the door and see five law enforcement officers standing on the porch …
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Graham Filler and Andrew Fink
Bridge Magazine | 3/7/23 |
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Back in 2018, then-congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin hammered U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop on being invisible in mid-Michigan. To her, it wasn’t a partisan thing. It was a being-present …
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Kyle Melinn
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3/2/23
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The shocking and tragic events of Feb. 13 will have a long-lasting impact on us all. The mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University left three students dead, five more wounded and a …
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3/2/23
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I am stuck on housing these days — more specifically, housing that is varied, affordable and not the single-family homes that predominate in our neighborhoods. Lansing (like many other cities) contains a demographic mismatch, with single-family zoning covering 83% of Lansing’s …
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Joan Nelson
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3/2/23
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On Wednesday last week, the Eaton County Board of Commissioners began with a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Michigan State University shooting tragedy. Later in the meeting, they debated the passage of a resolution in a manner that was anything but silent. …
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2/23/23
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As a historian of 20th century Europe, I wanted to extend an invitation to Eaton County Commissioner Brian Droscha to educate himself on communism, its goals and history, given the important role he …
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2/23/23
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Come ride along with me while I detour from the regular education route of my monthly column. Go with me to Spain, to the streets of Barcelona on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018. I was marching that day …
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Dedria Humphries Barker
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2/23/23
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If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill today that not a single Michigan Republican legislator supported, when do you think it would officially be on the books as a law?
The type of bill …
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Kyle Melinn
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2/23/23
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Three students at Michigan State University are dead. Five more students have been shot. Fifty thousand more students are now victims of trauma, only the latest to occur at a place of American education …
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Josh Cowen
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2/23/23
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