The City Center II stalemate between Strathmore Development Co. and the city of East Lansing moved one step closer to ending Tuesday when Strathmore paid its remaining $96,000 balance in city taxes.
Best-selling author, charity advocate and Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson will be in East Lansing on April 16 for Kaleidoscope 2010 — A Day for Women.
Village Summit, a Lansing nonprofit child care and family resource center, will host a pancake breakfast from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday at Gone Wired Cafe, 2021 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Since 1973, Ray Walsh’s Curious Book Shop at 307 E. Grand River Ave. has been 18 feet wide. And although the store is about 100 feet deep with three stories of inventory, it still gets overlooked among the hustle of the downtown.
The East Lansing City Council was receptive to adding taxicab stands on Albert Avenue during peak hours at its Tuesday work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
The third annual (SCENE) Metrospace Folk Festival will be held Friday and Saturday at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St. Doors open at 7 p.m. and performances will begin at 8 p.m.
Ingham County will have a more accurate representation of the number of homeless people living in the area as officials undergo a countywide homeless census today.
President Barack Obama is giving his State of the Union address today at 9 p.m. According to White House officials, the address will focus on the federal deficit and job creation.
The exit of Democratic front-runner Lt. Gov. John Cherry from Michigan’s gubernatorial race three weeks ago left the Democratic candidacy wide open, and the position still is sparking interest among party leaders.
Strathmore Development Co., the developer in charge of the City Center II project, paid the entirety of its outstanding city taxes Tuesday. With the nearly-$96,000 ledger erased with the city, Strathmore’s amended site plan will be considered by the East Lansing Planning Commission at its Feb. 24 meeting. The city had previously notified Strathmore owner Scott Chappelle that it would not consider any changes to the project until all city taxes were paid.
Texting and driving might soon be illegal in Michigan because of moves made Tuesday in the state Senate. A two-bill package that would make texting and driving a secondary offense passed in the Senate 31-6 and a similar bill passed in the Michigan House 94-13 in December. The bills must now be reconciled and sent to Gov. Jennifer Granholm for approval to become law.
Two more MSU football players have been suspended and face assault and battery charges stemming from an alleged November altercation with an MSU fraternity.
Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, who is pondering a run in the state gubernatorial race, said Monday at his State of the City address he hopes to see the gap between MSU and the state capital shrink in 2010.
Michigan history, (just) not one that people think of a lot,” Perkins said about the group.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss adding more taxi stations in the downtown area during its 7 p.m. Tuesday work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
Almost exactly two years after Detroit Free Press reporters M.L Elrick and Jim Schaefer broke news of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s text messaging affair, they are touring Michigan to promote their book, “The Kwame Sutra: Musings on lust, life and leadership from Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.”
Gyms usually have their fill in January as thousands of Americans attempt to lose holiday pounds. With East Lansing workout hotspots bulging with a glut of new January members, MSU alumna Emily Zurek noticed the gyms themselves usually shed more clients than the members do pounds when the calendar flips to February.
An MSU student will stand trial for his alleged involvement in a November prank. Political science and pre-law freshman Nikolai Wasielewski faces charges of conspiracy and accomplice after the fact for his involvement in a Nov. 1, 2009, prank, when he and three others allegedly threw a firework into the yard of an East Lansing resident’s home.
A map would tell people Nigeria and East Lansing are worlds away. Bunmi Akinyemiju would tell people they share a border. Akinyemiju, CEO of Enliven Software, is bringing his automated financial services operation out of East Lansing’s Technology Innovation Center, or TIC, at 325 E. Grand River Ave., to west Africa and Australia as part of a new global operation for his company.
Jodi Potter believes many Michigan residents are missing out on opportunities because of a lack of technology, especially in Upper Peninsula counties.