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One of the great ironies in today’s political climate is how we undervalue experience in the government.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/10/24
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For a decade, the stretch of Michigan Avenue between Frandor Shopping Center and the Red Cedar District (formerly Red Cedar Golf Course) has been the focus of ambitious development plans to connect East Lansing and Michigan State University with the city of Lansing.
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By JOAN NELSON
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10/2/24
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We’ve seen Curtis Hertel push his lawnmower around and Tom Barrett take a helicopter for a spin. But a couple of other TV ads in the Lansing-based MI-7 congressional race need explaining.
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By Kyle Melinn
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10/2/24
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Like it or not, the Lansing area is, again, ground zero for one of the nation’s most competitive and expensive congressional elections.
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By KYLE MELINN
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9/26/24
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Kamala Harris says we’re not going back, but these past two weeks has me hearing the refrain to a popular 2010 junkanoo band song by Baha Men. The song refrain was, “Who let the dogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who let the dogs out?”
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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9/26/24
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When my husband and I decided we were ready to be parents, we didn’t anticipate the possibility that we wouldn’t be able to conceive on our own.
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By Penelope Tsernoglou
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9/26/24
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In November, voters in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District will once again elect someone new to represent them in Washington.
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By Joe Schwarz
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9/19/24
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Social media has us all so whipped up and turned around about what type of information we are feeding our brains that most of us are now concocting our own conspiracy theories out of whole cloth.
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By Kyle Melinn
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9/19/24
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For some parents working in the private sector in 2024, taking paid time off after the new child comes into the family is expected.
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By Kyle Melinn
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9/12/24
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I was in Hunter Park recently attending Allen Neighborhood Center’s Summer Art Festival and ran into some old friends. We were marveling at how beautiful the park has become and the many delightful amenities it features.
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By JOAN NELSON
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9/4/24
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Isn’t it sad that politics has become the third rail of a conversation?
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For two months now I have been engaged in my sorority’s GOTV efforts. GOTV stands for Get Out the Vote.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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8/29/24
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Making political headway within the Democratic Party as a pro-Palestinian supporter has become like yelling into a vacuum.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/29/24
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If you can name all eight state Board of Education members without googling it, you are better than I.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/22/24
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The Lansing City Council must move quickly to prevent the University of Michigan from dismantling old Eastern High School's interior.
The focus in this controversy over preserving one of our …
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Back in February, I wrote in this space how Michigan House Republicans were in the driver’s seat to regain the majority of seats this fall.
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By Kyle Melinn
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8/14/24
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There is an emotional attachment to old schools. Generations of students may have passed through a particular school; participated in community activities or attended sporting events; or perhaps even worked as a teacher, bus driver or a school cook, as my Mom did for over a decade.
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By JOAN NELSON
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8/7/24
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Remember the Mike Rogers of early 2014? Before our then-8th District congressman said he was hanging up his seat for a radio show microphone?
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8/7/24
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Any number of emotions and ideas whirl in me as I continue to absorb the news about Kamala Harris, a Black American woman now one of two major party candidates to be the next president.
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By DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER
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7/31/24
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(The writer is a professor in the Romance and Classical Studies Department at Michigan State University. A masked gunman broke into his class on Feb. 13, 2023, killing two of his students and injuring five others.)
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By MARCO DIAZ-MUNOZ
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7/31/24
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