Curtis Audette and Joyce Lalonde are about 45 years apart in age. In terms of experience at a Democratic National Conventio, which they both are attending this week, that’s a huge difference; Audette, a social relations and policy sophomore, is attending his first convention this week in Charlotte, N.C., while Lalonde, an MSU alumna, is attending her seventh convention in about the past 30 years.
In separate opinions, the court also upheld three other ballot proposals: requiring a two-thirds vote in the state Legislature to raise taxes; voter approval for new bridges to Canada; and protecting collective bargaining rights from possible right-to-work legislation.
When Mitt Romney was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, or RNC, in Tampa, Fla., he had his first chance to formally introduce himself to the American people.
More than just fan morale is affected when the Spartan football team is having a good season — local businesses are greatly affected as well.
It’s official: This summer was hot and dry, and Michigan’s agriculture industry suffered from it. The Department of Agriculture officially designated the entire state of Michigan as a natural disaster area Wednesday, after a summer drought and heat wave.
Tampa, Fla. — Although Republican presidential nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could soon become President Romney, Matt Romney always will call him by a different name: Dad.
College students weren’t the only people browsing dancing cat GIFs on Reddit Wednesday afternoon; President Barack Obama also paid a visit to the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet” for a short question-and-answer session.
Because of a high number of nonconforming student rental properties in East Lansing designated for single families, the city staff is working on plans during the next four months to possibly alter the zoning in these areas to find a balance between student-rental housing and owner-occupied housing.
The 2012 presidential election season is the most negative campaign in recent years, with almost three-quarters of news content about President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney being negative, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
From the minute she arrived Sunday morning at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Ingham County delegate at large Linda Lee Tarver has confidently displayed a button pinned to her shirt bearing one clear message: “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.”
Anyone who happened to stop into Meijer, 1350 W. Lake Lansing Road, on Monday night might have thought they stumbled into a party as opposed to a grocery store.
Some of the finishing touches are starting to be put on the residential portion of the St. Anne Luxury Lofts project in downtown East Lansing this week.
Many Spartans have an appreciation for beer, but not as many have actually created their own brews. Since That’s How We Brew, a home-brewing supply store, opened in early August at 3000 Vine St., in Lansing, they can.
From fidgety movements, a spike of a heart rate and a high-tech instrument, MSU Police Detective Anne Stahl can tell when someone is lying to her face. Stahl is one of very few women in Michigan to operate a polygraph, or a diagnostic instrument with components that help her diagnose whether someone is being truthful or not by reading the examinee’s physiological responses to different types of questions.
It has been more than 125 years since Frank Beck, a farmer from Ohio, came to Michigan and started a small farm. And today, his great-great-grandchildren play on that same small farm, now known as Uncle John’s Cider Mill.
The Michigan Republican Party, fresh off primary victories Tuesday, united Wednesday morning for a press conference to rev up the conservative base from now until the general election on Nov. 6.
After two years of communication with the East Lansing City Council, FarmHouse Fraternity’s application for a special-use permit to expand its fraternity house, 151 Bogue St., was approved at Wednesday’s meeting.
Seventy-five years ago, the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, was started by a professor, and is now known as the largest university-based credit union. The MSUFCU’s headquarters, 3777 West Road, has nine branches, four of which are in East Lansing, including in the Union and at 523 E.
Language did not create barriers in understanding the Greater Lansing community’s pain at a Monday night vigil for the victims of the Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara shooting, at the Sikh Gurdwara of Lansing, 4701 Pleasant Grove Road. Early Sunday morning members of the Sikh religion, as well as people all over the world, were shaken by a mass shooting at a Sikh gurdwara, or place of worship, in Milwaukee, Wis., which left three critically injured and seven dead, including the gunman, who was shot by police.
Not often does Mary Hennessey have to explain the concept of pasta salad to a group of people. But when seven different countries are represented in one room, even the little aspects of American culture are interesting.