http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/articles.sec-2-1-.html The Catholic Church obviously doesn’t need my money, what little I put into the collection basket every week at mass, anyway.

The Catholic Conference collectively had $5 million in spare change floating around to dump into a political campaign to protect from experimentation on otherwise destroyed human embryos.

These are embryos created at fertility clinics for couples wanting to create life. Technicians create many little embryos through this fertilization process. The best ones, the ones most likely to live, are injected into the mom. Hopefully, life is created. ]]> Building: 226 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Lansing
Owners: Jonathan and Leola Watts
Taxpayers: Jonathan and Leola Watts
Assessed: $53,100
Owners Say: Unavailable ]]> The Rev. Frederick Thelen stood up in the basement cafeteria of the Cristo Rey Catholic Church and reiterated, in Spanish, to the crowd of Latinos seated in the room that if you are arrested or detained by law enforcement, tell them your name, but you don’t have to say anything else — and ask for a lawyer. ]]> The area around 3826 Lowcroft Ave. is crowded with garbage in impressive quantities and varieties: Paper, pieces of plastic, cinderblocks, a bucket, two broken-down dog houses, an orange traffic cone, two dilapidated sections of wood fence and a propane tank can all be seen through the tall grass. ]]> Did I want this Wonder bread-looking substance for $1.59 or my regular multi-grain for a buck more? I stared at my calculator. I was at $7.49. My Michigan Bridge Card (otherwise known as food stamps) only had $29.35 on it. The wheat stared at me. It%uFFFDd be a great way to get my fiber, I told myself. ]]>
Taylor, 65, shakes his head. He said it’s bizarre, maybe a backhanded compliment, that state Democratic head Mark Brewer wants him off the bench almost as bad as he wants Barack Obama in the White House. Almost. ]]> Why Bill Schuette? Why right now?

Two months ago, it appeared the medical marijuana ballot initiative, Proposal 1, was going to slide past Election Day without any organized opposition stopping it.

Then Schuette, an outgoing state appellate judge, emerged out of nowhere at the 11th hour to lead the charge against Proposal 1. ]]> This may be the first time the agency has conducted raids in the Lansing area.
According to reports from the online Michigan Messenger, 40 of the arrestees were “fugitives,” which means that they had previously been ordered to be deported by a judge. The online newspaper also reported that local law enforcement neither knew about the raids, nor took part in them. ]]> On top of everything else that makes an eyesore, 1413 Turner St. is an excellent example of landscaping run amok. An arboretum made of steel signposts runs up the long walkway to the house. The dead ivy on the metal crawls across the porch as well. A circulation pump for a small pond sits in the grass next to a fallen trellis. The backyard has stacks of wood sharing space with a forklift and other machinery and two old, broken sheds. ]]> Well, I know a real Maverick and, according to her, McCain and Palin are no mavericks.
“They’ve hijacked the name,” said Amelia Musser of Laingsburg, a direct descendant of the Mavericks, a family as famous in Texas for its liberal Democratic politics as the name is for its connotation of independent-mindedness. ]]>