Profiles of this year's LGBTQ+ Inclusion Award honorees. more

It started in the nadir of 2004, when the state passed a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage, and continued through an epic legal fight, with Nessel in a leading role, that culminated in the Supreme Court’s 2015 recognition of same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. more

Last week, a canvasser from a progressive advocacy group knocked on my door and asked me to fill out a survey. It was mostly basic stuff, like whether my job offers health insurance or whether I’d faced discrimination. But at the end, it presented a conundrum. more

One of the many times U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin received applause during her town hall at Sexton High School last week was for the simple comment that she read the entire 448-page Mueller report. more

Officials at Sparrow Health System maintain that more than 90 deficiencies uncovered in a recent safety inspection were “entirely resolved” in recent weeks. But many details about the problems (and their fixes) remain unknown. more

Ingham County commissioners are looking to hold themselves to a higher ethical standard after taking steps to scrap and rewrite a longstanding policy to guide their conduct as elected officials. more

Local activists and elected leaders are “fed up” with hunger in Greater Lansing. more

Campaign flyers urging residents to vote for a Lansing City Council candidate appear to have violated state, federal and local laws after they were found in mailboxes across the city earlier this week. more

A new electric scooter company is poised to corner the rental market in Greater Lansing later this summer. Sean Flood, CEO of the South Carolina-based rental startup Gotcha, today announced plans to drop off about 200 electric scooter rentals throughout Michigan State University, Lansing and East Lansing by late August. more

Six dispensaries are state-approved to sell medical marijuana in Lansing after another round of licenses were announced earlier today by the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.  more

All the copies of this week’s City Pulse, which featured an article about Sparrow Hospital's accreditation problems, went missing from Sparrow Health System facilities after they were delivered yesterday.  more

A national organization that accredits Sparrow Hospital has issued a preliminary denial after finding scores of deficiencies during a recent unannounced safety inspection. more

At age 5, I lost my sight. We didn’t discover until 30 years later that it was a hereditary condition called Stickler Syndrome. Blindness is a symptom of it along with cleft palate, arthritis and joint problems. It affects anywhere on the body there are connective tissues. more

But books close and curtains come down. As Eastern High School moves to a newly refurbished, technologically tricked-out HQ a few miles east — the former Pattengill Middle School — the fate of the 1929 edifice, one of the most significant historic structures in the city, is up in the air. Eastside community members, historic preservationists and city officials don’t want to lose another of Lansing’s key landmarks, but the school’s owner, next-door Sparrow Health System, is holding the building’s prognosis close to the chest. more

James, the Republicans' 2018 U.S. Senate nominee, has become quite the hot commodity after outperforming expectations last year in a race against U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Delta Township. That has led to speculation he will run against Michigan’s other Democratic U.S. senator, Gary Peters, in 2020. And the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee wants him to run against freshman Rep. Haley Stevens in the 11th District. more

The existential danger isn’t Trump. It’s that there are no more big men. more

For just two pennies levied on a sliver of the American population, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said her proposed "wealth tax" could pay for everything from universal pre-K education to wiping out nearly all student loan debt, and more. more

The Lansing City Council couldn’t muster enough votes tonight to override a budgetary veto from Mayor Andy Schor, ultimately pushing a $60,000 funding increase back into a neighborhood coordinator position. more

A state court ruling today struck down one of the last remaining legal remedies against eviction for the riverside restaurant as its owner, Scott Simmons, looks to keep his doors open inside the city-owned venue. The ruling — although it was against Simmons —bought his restaurant another 42 days of summer sales. more

Publicly shaming criminals, many of whom are often experiencing the worst day of their lives, is not how law enforcement is supposed to operate. The show sensationalizes crime for entertainment and only wanted to turn Ingham County into its newest stage. The sheriff needed to close the curtain. more