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Why do farmers join new farmers markets, especially in poor urban areas where the financial risk is greater than in more affluent communities?
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Eric Freedman
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10/3/20
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As the pandemic forces more students online, the lack of affordable broadband internet could cause lower performance of rural Michigan schoolchildren.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/3/20
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Solar energy newcomers and longtime aficionados can tour solar-powered homes virtually in Michigan and across the nation.
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Taylor Haelterman
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10/2/20
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Seasonal properties, vacant houses, the lack of internet, distrust of government and fewer census takers, not to mention the pandemic, are challenges to the 2020 U.S. census, especially in Michigan’s rural northern counties, census experts say.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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10/2/20
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Four years ago, American voters made a grave error. Electing a snake oil salesman instead of a stateswoman to hold our nation’s highest office has plunged the United States into a dark and dangerous period of division and delusion.
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The mother of a woman who was killed two years ago with a stolen handgun from Total Firearms in Mason is suing the firing range for alleged negligence.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/2/20
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Nobody knows better than a woman how to look in the mirror, see beauty and still decide there is room for enhancement. So don’t doubt my patriotism when I, an African American woman, write there is room for improvement in the visage of Michigan female voters. Especially White female voters.
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DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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10/1/20
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An Ingham County Commissioner is denying wrongdoing after he was accused this week of crossing multiple county ethics policies and state campaign finance laws by requesting campaign contributions to defeat his incumbent Republican colleague.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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9/30/20
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What happens if Proud Boys show up on Nov. 3 to be President Trump’s special poll watchers?
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Berl Schwartz
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9/30/20
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Up to 189 landlords and homeowners in Lansing with lead-based paint inside their homes can now apply for up to $16,000 in home improvements after city officials secured a $4.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Staff
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9/29/20
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Lansing police officers will look a bit different over the next few months as they ditch their traditional powder blue uniforms for tactical vests and much darker shades of blue.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/29/20
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The coronavirus hasn’t totally canceled Halloween in Greater Lansing. Local and state officials are just urging extreme caution.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/29/20
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An obscure door tucked beneath one of the massive stone staircases outside of Michigan’s Capitol opens to reveal yet another steep stairwell leading deep below the building’s south side.
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David Poulson
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9/28/20
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The threat of losing your driver’s license for offenses unrelated to dangerous driving would be eliminated under bills pushed by advocates for low-income Michigan residents.
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Zholdas Orisbayev
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9/28/20
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Worried about crime? If so, check out the Upper Peninsula, which has more of Michigan’s 10 safest small communities than any other part of the state.
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Eric Freedman
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9/28/20
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Christians at the Capitol and protesters supporting LGBTQ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement across the street at City Hall brought downtown Lansing to life this afternoon with political activity.
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SKYLER ASHLEY AND BERL SCHWARTZ
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9/26/20
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After a Black teenager was repeatedly struck by a white Lansing Police Department officer along Dakin Street last year, the city of Lansing was in turmoil.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/25/20
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Ballot boxes are ready in Lansing as the city prepares to begin mailing absentee ballots Thursday
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/24/20
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Frustrations are building among members of the Mayor’s Inclusion and Diversity Advisory Council after Mayor Andy Schor sidelined the group earlier this month and told its chairman to suspend its meetings until sometime next year.
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Kyle Kaminski
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9/23/20
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Demolition begins this week on the 1600 block of East Kalamazoo Street to make way for Allen Place, a multi-pronged community hub with 21 apartments, a health clinic, and a new storefront for the long-dormant East Lansing Food Co-op.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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9/23/20
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