Some know residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, or U.P., as nothing more than Yoopers, but at a recent Marquette County Board of Commissioners meeting, there was an effort to have their voice be heard.
Tuesday night, East Lansing City Council met with Strathmore Development Co. President Scott Chappelle for the first time since the council voted in favor a pre-development agreement on the City Center II project. In a previous meeting, the council had agreed to allow Chappelle to begin demolition of a building located at 303 Abbot Road, provided he complete a due-diligence report.
In light of developments to the global business market in the past few years, business owners, importers, exporters and local leaders gathered on Tuesday at Kellogg Center to discuss businesses’ options to expand globally, at the Port Lansing 2012 Global Logistics Conference. The Capital Region International Airport and Port Lansing brought in experts with international business to speak on their experiences and tips on supply chain management, international logistics, international finance and other various global trade exercises. Tim Daman, president and CEO of Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce said he works in partnership with the Capital Region International Airport on managing and marketing the Port Lansing services as well as the Foreign Trade Zone, and said the conference was a way for them to introduce these services to the attendees of the conference. “The expectations of what we were hoping to do here was expose businesses throughout the greater Lansing region to the opportunities for international and global trade and the resources that were established and built here locally,” Daman said. Matt Szukalowski, UPS marketing manager of the Great Lakes District branch, said his company uses Port Lansing to export and import packages daily, but he came to the conference to learn more about the logistics aspect. “UPS is obviously very versed in logistics, but looking at it from the customer’s perspective — what do they expect from the provider?” Larry Finney, supply chain manager of Air Lift Company, attended the event to pitch his company to Port Lansing, but found he learned more about what Port Lansing can do for his company. “I’ve gained a lot more today than I expected,” Finney said.
With ceremonial golden scissors in hand, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero visited Old Town Tuesday afternoon and dropped in to see new additions to the area and welcome new businesses with a ceremonial ribbon cutting. Escorted by members of the Old Town Commercial Association, or OTCA, Bernero visited four new stores to check out the merchandise, welcome the owners to the neighborhood and wish them the best of luck. Bernero’s first stop was Gallery 1212, 1212 Turner St., in Lansing, which opened in November 2011.
Susan Schmidt, a Democrat and East Lansing resident, officially announced her registration as a candidate for the 69th District seat for the state House of Representatives on Tuesday morning. A former president of the East Lansing School Board and instructor at Lansing Community College, Schmidt made the announcement at 9:30 a.m.
Packaging senior Matt Weal cannot fathom what MSU was like 155 years ago.
Despite the large amount of debate about health care reform in the past few years, according to medical professionals from across the state, one major topic is missing from the discussion: prevention.
For graduate student Lissa Oshei, studying for the LSAT was not something she took lightly. Oshei, originally from Buffalo, N.Y., said she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Puget Sound in Washington before coming to MSU and took an eight-week prep course to prepare for the exam. She said she received an OK score on the LSAT and decided to attend MSU College of Law after the school extended her a scholarship offer. To help students prepare for the LSAT, Kyle Clifton, vice chair for Finance and Operations at ASMSU, said ASMSU offers assessments and practice exams, as well as weekly in-class preparation. “Last fall and spring semester, over 70 students took advantage of our test prep courses,” he said.
A commotion that began in April 2012 is continuing into the summer, as the demolition of the former Michigan State Police Headquarters progresses. After moving to a new location, 333 S.
Over the spring 2012 commencement weekend, the winners of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Media Sandbox Creative Challenge finally saw their semesterlong project pay off.
Intoxicated minors who seek medical help for alcohol consumption soon will be protected by a new state law that grants amnesty to those who recognize they need help.
Throughout last week, the MSU Police Department and the East Lansing Fire Department was home to a training school for officers across Michigan to become ceremonial honor guards in their departments.
Jesse Gonzales always will remember his friend, former MSU Trustee Dorothy Gonzales, as larger than life. “She wasn’t very large in a physical sense, but she was very big in terms of what she wanted to do,” Jesse Gonzales said.
Physiology senior Christina Andersen thinks every day is Mother’s Day.
MSU alumnus Taylor Bond, left, and biomedical laboratory operations junior Melissa Rust play with dogs Otis and Remmington Sunday afternoon outside a home on M.A.C.
A proposed expansion to The Lodges of East Lansing has been a topic of conversation for the Meridian Township board, as the redevelopment may impact wetlands in the area.
Taylor Miller noticed that sometimes guys have questions about fashion, health and dating, but don’t know who to ask. The journalism senior and former MSU soccer player, decided to help.
Closing up a year of rebuilding and transitioning, ASMSU’s General Assembly elected its new leadership for the 2012-13 academic year Thursday night at its last meeting of the semester.
It’s not every day MSU pedestrians are greeted by Abraham Lincoln and Justin Morrill on the sidewalk, but on Thursday afternoon, passersby near the rock on Farm Lane were able to experience history in a new way.
The MSU College of Law will embark on a new project to develop a program centered around American law in Dubai for professionals who don’t have time to move to East Lansing for law school.