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These early days of 2022 are an opportune time to look back and assess last year’s press freedom environment in the United States and abroad.
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As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden made a series of energy-related promises, including net-zero emissions by 2050 and the launch of “a national effort aimed at creating the jobs we need to …
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Is it fair to call Detroit a food desert? Many people, including researchers, have regarded Detroit as a food desert. Yet the term food desert is no longer correct in describing all of Detroit.
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Opioid overdose deaths have increased dramatically among African American and Hispanic populations in the state, according to new data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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Paula Cunningham has retired twice.
“Well, I transitioned twice,” she said.
Cunningham was the president of Lansing Community College then the CEO of Capitol National …
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As local governments wrestle with the question of how to spend their share of American Rescue Plan Act money from Washington, some are earmarking it to improve broadband access and affordability for their residents.
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Each day in Fishtown, a small fishing district in Leland, Amanda Holmes, the executive director of the Fishtown Preservation Society, receives a visit from a local elderly man who grew up in the area and likes to check preservation efforts.
To learn more about “A Hunter’s Tale,” visit ahunterstale.com • For the next installment, pick up the Jan. 26 issue of City Pulse.
Historian Kevin Boyle’s new book, “The Shattering,” has no surprises, major revelations and no sappy stories. Instead, it is packed to the brim with tales of courageous individuals who stood for justice and truth. “The Shattering” is a straightforward look at the tumultuous decade of the ’60s, and how it shaped the course of United States history.
Deanna Brown is the owner of Everything is Cheesecake. She was inspired to become an entrepreneur by her brother Danny, who passed away from cancer and left behind something precious to Deanna, a leather satchel.
Lansterdam in Review: Lemonati Family Farms
It’s estimated that there were more than 40,000 people across the country still locked up behind bars last year for nonviolent, marijuana-related crimes — including hundreds of inmates in Michigan, where recreational pot has been legal for adult use for longer than three years.
One of the biggest pieces of public art ever to be erected in greater Lansing quietly slithered into the heart of downtown in the closing weeks of 2021.
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