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Going Local: Creating Self-Reliance in
Lansing in a Global Age
By DANIEL STURM
It’s Christmas Eve in downtown Lansing and Randy Glumm, owner
of Way Station Books & Stuff, had expected to see dozens of last-minute
shoppers. Like always, since opening his new and used bookstore on South
Washington Square last October, there are free cookies and coffee on
the table. Holiday jazz pipes through the stereo and the air is inspired
by a light smell of incense. But although one can find the complete
stories of Edgar Allen Poe and everything from poetry, sports and erotica
to the history of Michigan’s Finnish immigrants, at 10:30 a.m.
I’m the only customer. Lansing’s downtown shopping district
looks like a ghost town. “Some shops aren’t even open,”
Glumm says disappointedly. “I didn’t expect this.”
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Dissident Cuban attorney starts over in Lansing
In 1986, while living in Cuba, Leonel Morejon Almagro wrote a letter
to the U.S. Congress encouraging members to support Mikhail Gorbachev’s
moratorium on nuclear weapons testing. Almagro was promoting peace.
The Cuban government, however, believed he was creating dissent.
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Old
Town move signals new era for Nature Conservancy
The
Michigan chapter of The Nature Conservancy isn’t just another pretty
new facade in Lansing’s Old Town. The land-preservation organization
is building momentum, too, behind its refurbished doors at the corner
of Grand River Avenue and Washington Street.
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Letters
to the Editor
Correction & Amplification
Health
: Howard Brody
Public
health: Demands increase, funding drops
Civil Liberties
: Henry Silverman
UM
Affirmative Action case raises historic issues
Guest
Columnist:
Lisa Dedden
Lansing
needs to keep fighting the pipeline
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Cooper: A voice being heard
Theater:
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Advice Goddess: Amy
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That ‘N Sync-ing Feeling
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