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Bold of Mark C. Criss, head of the City Rescue Mission of Lansing, to outright admit the Mission lies to its residents and its neighbors. The first paragraph of its website echoes the common …
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6/12/24
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The Republican National Party is dead to me and many other formerly active supporters because of the insistence of some weak kneed and weak willed want-to-be political “leaders” (?) who …
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6/12/24
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If you’ll excuse the pun, the question “soaring” over the state Capitol these days is a pot of money called the SOAR Fund that the governor’s administration uses to grease the …
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By Kyle Melinn
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6/12/24
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What would you consider a hate crime?
Is it threats of violence against someone because of who they are, whether they are part of the LGBTQ+ community, have a disability, come from a …
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By Kyle Melinn
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6/5/24
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We’ve all heard the tired phrase from the 1992 presidential campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Back then, it was James Carville laying the …
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By Kyle Melinn
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5/29/24
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It’s taken a while, but the game of division, subtraction, exclusion, and confrontation employed by those in the extreme Make America Great Again movement appears to be losing ground with …
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By Kyle Melinn
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5/21/24
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(The writer is a longtime East Lansing resident and real estate agent.)
I’ve been a resident of East Lansing since 1958 when my husband and I moved to East Lansing so he could complete a …
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Elinor M. Holbrook
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5/6/24
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(The writer is a former East Lansing housing inspector.)
East Lansing’s Housing Code Needs Reform
Last week, East Lansing City Councilperson Erik Altmann submitted a dark and dire …
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Nathan Izydorek
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5/3/24
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(The writer is a member of the East Lansing City Council.)
The City Pulse recently published an article about rental regulations in East Lansing ( …
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ERIK ALTMANN
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4/29/24
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(Jill Baker is president of the Grand Pointe Property Owners Association and resides in Dimondale.)
As a longtime resident of the close-knit Dimondale community, I've witnessed the many changes …
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JILL BAKER
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4/16/24
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The catastrophic storm that devastated Greater Lansing this summer tragically took the lives of several people in our community, knocked out power for tens of thousands of families and caused millions of dollars in property damage. It’s just the latest example of increasingly extreme weather here in Michigan and across the country.
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Penelope Tsernoglou
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10/23/23
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It’s time once again for Lansing and East Lansing voters to choose representatives to serve on their respective city councils. Sadly, less than 20% of eligible voters are expected to participate in the off-year,
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10/19/23
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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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