Lansing endorsements redux
If you missed our endorsements last week, we offer this reminder of our choices, based on interviews with all but one candidate (at-large candidate Aurelius Christian, who declined). Charter …
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Cristo Rey: a director looks back at the challenges to keep it open
(The writer recently stepped down as CEO of Catholic Charitie of Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties.) He was previously executive director Cristo Rey Community Center.)
Leaving Catholic …
Letter to the editor
I’ve been in East Lansing for 11 days now, and apartment hunting in this city has been nothing short of terrifying. I arrived from India after having put down an application fee of $150 with an …
This is what passes for democracy in state government these days
At the moment, I’m sitting in a nearly empty state House committee room.
The subcommittee charged with overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars of pork barrel spending was …
The 2025 Lansing Elections
Vote for Andy Schor
Four years ago, City Pulse sat uncomfortably on the fence in the Lansing mayoral contest. Given the inevitability that Andy Schor would be reelected (as he was with 64% of …
City Charter:
Two years ago, we opposed a ballot proposal calling for a wholesale review of the Lansing City Charter because we saw no reason to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve a document in no …
Letter to the editor:
Now that the public comment period has closed on the proposal to roll back the Endangerment Finding—the scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health—the U.S. …
John James seems to be sabotaging his gubernatorial chances
This is a story on “the race that shouldn’t have been.”
U.S. Rep. John James should already be wrapping up the 2026 gubernatorial primary. The race should be functionally over, …
Cracking the code of compliance
The abundance of so-called red-tagged houses peppered throughout Lansing neighborhoods is a perennial thorn in the side of city leaders, who have struggled for decades to figure out the secret sauce …
Letter to the editor: Beware ‘harmful anti-voter petitions’
Petitions are being circulated in the Lansing area by “Americans for Citizens Voting —Michigan” and “Committee to Protect Voters’ Rights.”
These harmful …
Cristo Rey: a director looks back at the challenges to keep it open
(The writer recently stepped down as CEO of Catholic Charitie of Ingham, Eaton and Clinton Counties.) He was previously executive director Cristo Rey Community Center.) Leaving Catholic …
Letter to the editor
I’ve been in East Lansing for 11 days now, and apartment hunting in this city has been nothing short of terrifying. I arrived from India after having put down an application fee of $150 with an …
This is what passes for democracy in state government these days
At the moment, I’m sitting in a nearly empty state House committee room. The subcommittee charged with overseeing hundreds of millions of dollars of pork barrel spending was …
The 2025 Lansing Elections
Vote for Andy Schor Four years ago, City Pulse sat uncomfortably on the fence in the Lansing mayoral contest. Given the inevitability that Andy Schor would be reelected (as he was with 64% of …
City Charter:
Two years ago, we opposed a ballot proposal calling for a wholesale review of the Lansing City Charter because we saw no reason to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve a document in no …
Letter to the editor:
Now that the public comment period has closed on the proposal to roll back the Endangerment Finding—the scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health—the U.S. …
John James seems to be sabotaging his gubernatorial chances
This is a story on “the race that shouldn’t have been.” U.S. Rep. John James should already be wrapping up the 2026 gubernatorial primary. The race should be functionally over, …
Cracking the code of compliance
The abundance of so-called red-tagged houses peppered throughout Lansing neighborhoods is a perennial thorn in the side of city leaders, who have struggled for decades to figure out the secret sauce …
Letter to the editor: Beware ‘harmful anti-voter petitions’
Petitions are being circulated in the Lansing area by “Americans for Citizens Voting —Michigan” and “Committee to Protect Voters’ Rights.” These harmful …