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TUESDAY, MAY 22 — Unlike years past, when the budget process was fraught with name calling, veto threats and long meetings, the Lansing City Council last night unanimously approved Mayor Andy Schor’s first budget proposal with few tweaks.
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Todd Heywood
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5/22/18
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MONDAY, May 21 — The Lansing City Council is expected tonight to strike all or part of an $80,000-a-year subsidy to the City Market in order to fund a new code enforcement inspector.
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Todd Heywood
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5/21/18
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“I don’t think the taxpayers want to be subsidizing a bar,” said Wood in a phone call Tuesday. Many on the Council are pushing to cut the money and funnel it into the city’s code compliance program, specifically to pay for an officer to police the city’s business corridors.
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Todd Heywood
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5/17/18
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It happens every weekend. The neighborhoods bloom with plastic bags stuffed with some version of the Community News, published by Gannett and the Lansing State Journal. The bags are tossed haphazardly in yards, sidewalks and driveways. And City Councilmembers, the city attorney of Lansing and citizens have had enough.
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Todd Heywood
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5/17/18
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Our American experiment has faced and successfully overcome two crises while facing the 3rd today. The 1st crisis was the American Revolution where we told the British Empire that we, the American People, would govern ourselves.
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5/17/18
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The Michigan Democratic Party’s top four statewide nominees may end up being women with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow running for re-election, Gretchen Whitmer the gubernatorial front-runner, Jocelyn Benson in line for the secretary of state nomination and Dana Nessel the favorite for the attorney general nomination.
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Kyle Melinn
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5/17/18
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Below Stiles’ feet, landscaper John Weaver could be seen, bent double, feet on the curb, digging a flowering mandavilla into the topsoil lining the embankment. The light turned green on Pennsylvania Avenue, a few blocks east, and a semi truck bore down on Weaver’s posterior.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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5/17/18
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Ingham County Treasurer Eric Schertzing, who chairs the Ingham County Land Bank, said that the state and federal government have slowly been divesting from groups like GLHC and that without a strong board and executive director driven fundraising system, many are shutting down throughout the state.
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Todd Heywood
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5/10/18
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The sunny post-graduation stroll was grander than usual Saturday afternoon. Champagne bottles piled up next to Beaumont Tower as families jockeyed for photo ops. Three grads perched on the edge of the fountain in front of the library for a photo. One of them fell into the drink and climbed out, laughing.
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Lawrence Cosentino
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5/10/18
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Standing to the side of the BWL Depot meeting room Saturday, Patrick Gillespie talked quietly to his daughter. He stood beside two large displays. He was the featured speaker at First Ward Councilwoman Jody Washington’s monthly get-together with constituents.
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Todd Heywood
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5/10/18
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With the Lansing City Council scheduled to take up the project next month, labor issues remain a hurdle for the planned transformation of the old Red Cedar Golf Course from a flood plain to a mixed-use project that would include hotels, restaurants...
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Berl Schwartz
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5/10/18
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Stephen Dothage of Lansing was the first person to correctly identify the April 11 Eye for Design as 109 West Michigan Ave. in Lansing, adding that it “houses the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
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Daniel Bollman, AIA
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5/10/18
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City Pulse editor and publisher Berl Schwartz's latest interview with Lansing Mayor Andy Schor. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5qionjLPeaM" fr
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City Pulse Staff
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5/7/18
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Since this building was built in 1965, it carries the characteristics of its Midcentury Modern predecessors, expressing them in a more mature version of the era’s style that introduces regional influences in the work. The flat roof and minimal overhangs that often define early modernism are replaced with deep eaves and a low-pitched roof.
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Daniel Bollman, AIA
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5/3/18
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For decades, a stretch of green space dotted with trees has spanned the distance between Lansing Eastern High School’s parking lot on the south and Orchard Street on the north. Buried underneath, however, could be historical secrets about the site’s former use as the Michigan Industrial School for Boys.
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Todd Heywood
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5/3/18
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“How many people here have had to take their car to the shop in last 12 months for a bent rim or some other repair because you’ve hit a pothole? Let’s see a show of hands,” Slotkin asked this gathering of a few dozen people at East Lansing’s Hannah Center.
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Kyle Melinn
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5/3/18
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Four Williamston Community School Board members are unlikely to face an immediate petition drive for their recall after Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Patrick Conlin invalidated recall language approved by the Ingham County Election Commission earlier this year.
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Todd Heywood
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5/3/18
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VOA Board Chairman Don McCann confirmed the departure of Patterson, which is being called a “resignation.” He said that Patterson’s predecessor, Alex Brodrick, has come out of retirement to return to his old post on an interim basis while the VOA looks for a new chief executive.
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Berl Schwartz
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5/3/18
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Patrick Patterson and the Volunteers of America Michigan, which named him president and CEO just July, have parted ways over “differences.”
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Berl Schwartz
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5/2/18
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Monument to tragedy 123 N. Hayford Ave., Lansing.
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Todd Heywood
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4/27/18
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