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This year’s State Capitol Christmas tree is a definite Eye Candy, per the oohs and aahs of the spectators and participants at the Silver Bells 5K in downtown Lansing over the weekend. The 63-foot spruce tree chosen for the grounds of the State Capitol was donated by Carla Fletcher and her family.
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CARRIE SAMPSON
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11/24/21
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The Professional Employee Council of Sparrow — which represents about 2,200 employees — announced today that 96% of the staff who participated in a recent unionwide vote over the last week have authorized its negotiating team to call a strike “if necessary,” according to a release.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/22/21
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Despite an outpouring of nearly unanimously negative feedback from local residents in recent weeks, the Lansing Township Board of Trustees voted 6-0 on Tuesday, Nov. 9 to introduce a three-year special assessment that will begin hitting winter property tax bills in December.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/22/21
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A notice issued yesterday by the state's Marijuana Regulatory Agency called for the recall of untold thousands of cannabis products that were tested by Viridis Laboratories in Lansing and Bay City between Aug. 10 and Nov. 16.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/18/21
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A local judge wants to make it clear to the tenants of Rivershell Apartments that their balconies are not safe.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/18/21
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor has decided to reinstate a universal mask mandate at City Hall.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/18/21
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For 14 years, Tamara Hicks-Syron’s beagle Elvis had been at her side as a constant companion, source of comfort and entertainment. But this summer, he became very sick while she was in Calhoun County. She bundled up Elvis and rushed him to Lansing to see his doctor at Riverfront Animal Hospital: Dr. Lisa Hassinger. Her human clients know her as Dr. Lisa.
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TODD HEYWOOD
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11/17/21
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The Ingham County Election Commission shot down a proposed recall petition against City Councilman Brandon Betz.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/15/21
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Lansing Community College’s 89.7 FM, WLNZ radio station is now officially under the management of Michigan Radio. LCC confirmed in a press release that Michigan Radio will provide public radio programming for WLNZ beginning today.
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Skyler Ashley
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11/15/21
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Lansing code enforcement officers in September plastered pink tags on every building at Rivershell Apartments on Bayview Drive, noting that every unit across the sprawling apartment complex had twice failed rental inspections and subsequently lost their city rental certificates.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/10/21
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Schor sat down with managing editor Kyle Kaminski to look back at his landslide victory and outline his top priorities. Those include plans to curb rising levels of gun violence and to help steer the city through the end of the pandemic.
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Kyle Kaminski
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11/10/21
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Progress Michigan, a liberal advocacy organization, is accusing advocates behind the Secure MI Vote ballot initiative of pushing a plan that would increase costs for elections and shutter polling locations — including churches that have been used for generations of local voters.
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TODD HEYWOOD
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11/10/21
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News that longtime Ingham County Treasurer Eric Schertzing will retire in March 2022.
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Todd Heywood
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11/3/21
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Katie Pontifex has never seen morale so low among nurses at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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11/3/21
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This northside home is no visual charmer, but that’s not why it has our attention.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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11/3/21
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On a cloudy Saturday in October, along one of the main drags in southwest Lansing, motorists spied a man walking across a muddy residential yard with a shovel in his hand and a picket fence of pearly white teeth.
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LAWRENCE COSENTINO
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11/3/21
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A father of two children at Dewitt Public Schools is suing the district over its policy on face masks.
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The Lansing Police Department tracked two more homicides for a total of at least 24 reported so far this year — already surpassing last year’s decade’s long record high of 21 homicides.
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KYLE KAMINSKI
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10/29/21
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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor has agreed to join a “racial healing circle” next year that is designed to hold them accountable for their past missteps, repair a racial divide in the city and curb gun violence.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/29/21
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An east side resident and a group of 30 volunteers are looking to trigger a recall election for Lansing City Councilman Brandon Betz.
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Kyle Kaminski
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10/27/21
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