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I am writing this rebuttal to the article “Black opioid deaths at crisis levels in Lansing area” (July 26).
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By MICHAEL D. PICCIANO
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8/17/23
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Paul Gentilozzi, the guy who sold men’s clothing out of an old shop off South Washington Avenue in the 1960s, is putting his name behind a $215 million housing development project to jumpstart a struggling downtown.
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by KYLE MELINN
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8/17/23
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Along with their rural counterparts, Lansing’s urban farmers have found a convivial setting for selling their products in farmers markets. Twenty years ago, the region had two markets: Downtown Lansing City Market and Meridian Market. Today, mid-Michigan has 15 to 20!
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By JOAN NELSON
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8/10/23
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Over one-sixth of our country is made up of people over 65. I’m a member of that group. And I am one of the lucky ones. I have a pension, social security and retirement investments that give me an income that matches my working income.
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By DONNA MULLINS
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8/3/23
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We were frankly floored by last week’s unanimous City Council vote (with one member absent) to refer an unfounded ethics complaint against Mayor Andy Schor to an external firm for further investigation.
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8/3/23
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Agitated that other priorities have taken center stage in the early days of the Democratic-controlled Legislature, labor leaders convinced the state House to take up measures this week to repeal the …
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Kyle Melinn
Capitol News Service MIRS | 3/9/23 |
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On any given night, in any emergency department at any hospital in Michigan, the people needing care include a patient in need of mental health services who is held in a room for hours, sometimes days …
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Jacob Kagan and Peggy Johnson
Bridge Magazine | 3/7/23 |
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It’s 8:30 at night and you’re in the living room watching TV with your kids, when you hear a knock at the door. You go to the door and see five law enforcement officers standing on the porch …
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Graham Filler and Andrew Fink
Bridge Magazine | 3/7/23 |
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Back in 2018, then-congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin hammered U.S. Rep. Mike Bishop on being invisible in mid-Michigan. To her, it wasn’t a partisan thing. It was a being-present …
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Kyle Melinn
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3/2/23
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The shocking and tragic events of Feb. 13 will have a long-lasting impact on us all. The mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University left three students dead, five more wounded and a …
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Staff
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3/2/23
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I am stuck on housing these days — more specifically, housing that is varied, affordable and not the single-family homes that predominate in our neighborhoods. Lansing (like many other cities) contains a demographic mismatch, with single-family zoning covering 83% of Lansing’s …
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Joan Nelson
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3/2/23
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On Wednesday last week, the Eaton County Board of Commissioners began with a moment of silence in memory of the victims of the Michigan State University shooting tragedy. Later in the meeting, they debated the passage of a resolution in a manner that was anything but silent. …
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2/23/23
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As a historian of 20th century Europe, I wanted to extend an invitation to Eaton County Commissioner Brian Droscha to educate himself on communism, its goals and history, given the important role he …
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2/23/23
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Come ride along with me while I detour from the regular education route of my monthly column. Go with me to Spain, to the streets of Barcelona on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018. I was marching that day …
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Dedria Humphries Barker
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2/23/23
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If Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill today that not a single Michigan Republican legislator supported, when do you think it would officially be on the books as a law?
The type of bill …
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Kyle Melinn
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2/23/23
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Three students at Michigan State University are dead. Five more students have been shot. Fifty thousand more students are now victims of trauma, only the latest to occur at a place of American education …
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Josh Cowen
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2/23/23
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Carol Siemon didn’t have a chance to run for reelection as Ingham County prosecutor on her policy not to charge felony firearm cases. Her argument was that a wide majority of these defendants were Black. …
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Kyle Melinn
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2/16/23
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Michigan’s children deserve the very best education, but what they have received from state government over the last couple of decades has been disappointing and lackluster. However, the energy …
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Staff
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2/9/23
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I’m not sure if Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is putting her name on them, but you can thank the governor for the $180-per-person rebate check you’re getting later this spring or summer. Michigan is sitting on $9.2 billion thanks to an economy still buzzing …
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Kyle Melinn
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2/9/23
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I read with interest the City Pulse editorial in your Feb. 1 edition titled “Tax the Rich,” and I agree that changes Governor Whitmer has proposed, including expansion of the state’s Earned Income Tax (which I worked on since it was first introduced in 2006), ...
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Sharon Parks Holt
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2/9/23
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