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In December, the city of Lansing opened a warming center at the Letts Community Center. A contract with the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries to operate the facility expires April 30, and the city is looking to establish a new 24-hour shelter by November.
Lansing plans a 24-hour warming shelter to succeed Letts facility
WEDNESDAY, April 17— The city of Lansing plans to establish a 24-hour “alternative temporary homeless shelter" to replace the Letts Warming Center. … more
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Tony Gant (left) and Robert Shearon are two formerly incarcerated Michiganders who are pushing for legislative housing reform on behalf of Nation Outside, a statewide organization advocating for the rights of ex-prisoners.
Formerly incarcerated advocates call for a fair chance at housing
In 1980, a 17-year-old U.S. Army recruit named Robert Shearon was shipped off from Detroit to serve in South Korea.  He spent the next two years overseas, but the lasting troubles began when he came back. more
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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, appeared in East Lansing today to mobilize Democratic voters and canvassers for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Warren visits East Lansing to tout Biden’s efforts to preserve abortion access
FRIDAY, April 12 — The last time U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in town, it was to campaign for president in 2019. She packed a gymnasium-sized space at Lansing Community College in a raucous … more
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor has written a letter to the four members of the City Council who opposed his proposal to purchase the old Masonic Temple building, 217 S. Capitol Ave., as the next city hall in a last-ditch effort to convince one of them to give him the vote needs to move forward with his plan.
Schor lays out arguments for Masonic Temple as new city hall to its Council critics
Lansing Mayor Andy Schor has sent four City Council members a lengthy letter today defending his choice of the Masonic Temple building for a new city hall and asking them to reconsider their … more
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Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Lansing looking north from Kalamazoo Street. After westside residents complained about a city plan to remove the islands to the left as part of accommodating traffic changes, the city has asked them to express their views on that plan versus a much more limited alternative.
City offers a new choice for MLK Boulevard changes after vocal opposition
THURSDAY, April 11 —Lansing Westside Neighborhood residents who were unhappy with the city’s plan to remove the tree-covered islands on a stretch of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard have … more
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Interim Lansing City Attorney Greg Venker will remain interim for the time being after the City Council put his city attorney nomination by Mayor Schor on hold Monday.
Lansing City Council stalls new city attorney appointment
WEDNESDAY, April 10— The Lansing City Council has put Mayor Andy Schor’s nomination of a new city attorney on hold. Schor handed his appointment of Greg Venker to the Council in … more
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At-large Council members Jeffrey Brown (left) and Trini Pehlivanoglu at a March City Council meeting. They were two of four Council members whose actions may have upset years of planning for a new city hall.
Sources: Schor looking to work around Council on city hall plan
Lacking the support of the City Council for its plan to move the new city hall to the Masonic Temple, the Schor administration is looking at options for another location that do not involve any input from the Council, sources have told City Pulse. more
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Tiny Bit of Wood owner Megan Shannon (center) cut the ribbon on her new studio space and storefront last Thursday (April 4). She was joined by (from left) Downtown Lansing Inc. Executive Director Cathleen Edgerly, mother Sandy Shannon, niece Mia Shannon, sixth-grade teacher Jan Warren, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor and fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Connie Crittenden.
New Stadium District woodworking studio hits inclusivity nail on the head
In 2018, Megan Shannon left her job as a special-education paraprofessional at Okemos Public Schools to pursue woodworking full time. Her new business, Tiny Bit of Wood, opened this year. more
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Gregory Venker, 41, is Mayor Andy Schor's choice to replace City Attorney James Smierkta as city attorney.
Mayor nominates Gregory Venker as Lansing’s next city attorney
FRIDAY, April 5 — Lansing Deputy City Attorney Gregory Venker is slated to replace retiring City Attorney James Smiertka next week if the City Council approves his appointment in its regular meeting on Monday. more
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Lansing ramps up red-tag enforcement efforts despite staffing shortage
As the new director of Lansing’s director of economic development and planning, Rawley Van Fossen has wasted no time trying to revitalize a Code Enforcement Office that’s been dogged for years by inconsistent leadership and five staff vacancies, including one for a lead housing inspector. more
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Amanda Trojan holds baby Nathanael following his water birth at Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital in Ann Arbor on June 25, 2022, attended by certified nurse-midwife Kayla Joy Jasman.
What is the future of birth in Lansing?
When Kendra Ouillete found out she was pregnant just one month after moving from Florida to Mason in December 2020, more
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Kendra Ouillette cuts the umbilical cord, welcoming her second daughter, Bennett, into the world in the early morning hours of March 12 at E.W. Sparrow Hospital.
Second time around: Kendra Ouillette navigates the medical model at Sparrow
Construction began Monday on a $14 million project that will reduce Michigan Avenue to two lanes and add bike lanes and trees from US 127 to Pennsylvania Avenue over the next year and a half.
Michigan Avenue traffic closure forces businesses to adapt
THURSDAY, April 4 — As construction crews began breaking up the asphalt on a closed strip of Michigan Avenue between Mifflin Avenue and Howard Street in Lansing on Monday,  it didn’t … more
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Ted Stewart, owner of Metro Retro in Old Town, died over the weekend at the age of 56.
Old Town, LGBTQ stalwart Ted Stewart, co-founder of Metro Retro, dies
MONDAY, April 1 — Ted Stewart, 56, owner of Metro Retro in Old Town, died in his sleep Saturday, friends said. His shop, at 304 E. Grand River Ave., celebrated its eighth year of business last month. more
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As absentee ballots start getting mailed for the May 7 special election to serve on the Lansing Charter Revision Commission, nine candidates band together to counter endorsements of nine candidates by the unions and the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Nine Lansing charter commission candidates join forces in response to chamber endorsements
Nine candidates for Lansing’s Charter Revision Commission announced today that they have formed an alliance in response to a separate slate of endorsements selected by … more
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Grand Rapids developer Gary Granger wants the city of Lansing to reconsider his unsuccessful bid to develop a new city hall on the city of old Walter Neller Building at Grand Avenue and Allegan Street. Lansing Mayoer Andy Schor rejected his request, pointing out that Granger has long ignored demands to clean up the building. The ciy placed it on the make-safe-or-demolish list in October.
Schor, scorned developer at odds over city hall plans
The city of Lansing’s journey to a new city hall has hit at least another speed bump. more
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When the city of Lansing opened up the bidding process for a new city hall project in March 2022, the Granger Group and Gentiloozi Real Estate proposed that the site of the Walter Neller Building, 122 S. Grand Ave., could be redeveloped for the purpose. The city ended up going with the Boji Group, the only other bidder, for a plan that resulted in the city's offer to purchase the old Masonic Temple as a new city hall.
Schor passes again on Granger’s alternative plan for a new city hall
​​ MONDAY, March 25 — Mayor Andy Schor has rebuffed a recent attempt by a developer to revive his proposal for building a new city hall in downtown Lansing. more
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Changes to East Lansing’s police oversight commission powers leave members dissatisfied
THURSDAY, March 21 — Members of the East Lansing Independent Police Oversight Commission expressed dissatisfaction at changes by the City Council that they say weakened the panel’s … more
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A plan for the city of Lansing to purchase the old Masonic Temple, 217 S. Capital Ave., to convert it into a new city hall was defeated on a 4-4 vote.
Have the tables been turned on Mayor Schor’s city hall dreams?
An agreement to buy the Masonic Temple building downtown and turn it into Lansing’s next city hall looked poised to pass last week when City Council members met as the Committee of the Whole. But a short time later at the Council meeting itself, it lost on a 4-4 vote after three members who supporters expected to back it didn’t. more
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Ingham County funds program to relieve local medical debt
When Ingham County Commissioner Myles Johnson learned last summer that the state of Michigan had budgeted matching funds to help residents erase their medical debt with assistance from a national nonprofit, he knew he had to get the ball rolling as soon as possible. more
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