More than 270 garden enthusiasts traveled from all around Michigan and a few surrounding states to attend the 19th annual Garden Day on Friday, organized by the MSU Horticulture Gardens.
More than 1,000 people from Lansing and the surrounding area were in for 10 hours of drinking and music from many local bands at the inaugural Michigan Rock‘n Brew festival at Adado Riverfront Park, 901 N. Washington Ave., in downtown Lansing Saturday and Sunday.
The streets of Lansing’s Old Town were packed this weekend as jazz enthusiasts gathered for a two-day celebration of music.
Former MSU football player Devin Thomas announced his retirement from the NFL on Sunday, in a somewhat surprising move, considering Thomas’ age and recent contract with the Chicago Bears.
Michigan has a Cool Cities Initiative, which was instituted by Gov. Jennifer Granholm in 2004, “aimed at revitalizing cities in Michigan to make them more vibrant and energetic.” The primary push behind the initiative was the debilitating amount of recent college graduates who, upon graduation, immediately located the nearest exit and ran straight through it.
Following years of deliberation and searching and students’ continued technological problems, MSU has finally chosen a new learning management system, or LMS, to replace the nearly obsolete ANGEL.
With every crunch of the pads and swig from the water bottles, it was clear football was back in session at the MSU football team’s opening practice of the season Saturday.
Under sunny skies and the ongoing construction of a new scoreboard across the street at Spartan Stadium, the MSU football team opened with its first practice of the 2012 season Saturday afternoon.
The Lansing JazzFest does more than shine a spotlight on the musical acts that are performing there; it spotlights Lansing’s Old Town and the community that it calls home, as well.
Prescription bottles are covered with warnings and directions meant to inform the customer how to take the drug properly, but a recent MSU study looked at 32 prescription users and found 22 percent did not bother to examine any of the labels shown to them. The younger and older populations were both represented in the 32 people studied.
As the MSU football team begins training camp this weekend, it will do so knowing it’s one of the 15 best teams in the country, according to the preseason USA TODAY Coaches Poll released Thursday.
Spending for House of Representative races across the state increased by 17.4 percent from the 2010 election, amassing more than $9.6 million statewide, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. Republicans campaigning for state office raised about $1.5 million more than Democrats seeking office. Candidates were required to submit financial reports to the Secretary of State last week, prior to the upcoming primary election on Tuesday, stating their contributions and expenditures up to July 22. The candidates for the 69th district seat raised more than $250,000, most of which came from a battle between Democratic candidates Sam Singh and Susan Schmidt. Singh has raised $136,522 during the cumulative election cycle, to Schmidt’s $95,356.
George Nastas, a longtime local resident, is throwing his hat in the ring to seek a seat in the House of Representatives for the 69th district.
After opening its first location in 2007, Conrad’s College Town Grill, 101 E. Grand River Ave., is expanding its horizons. The restaurant is opening another location on the other side of town in the former location of Papa’s Pizza and BBQ, 1219 E.
Although some might choose to stick to drawing stick figures, MSU Police Officer Casey Christman works one on one with witnesses to listen to their recollection of a suspect to create a complete illustration of a suspect in a crime.
Hendrik Schatz studies exploding stars — or more specifically, what connection exploding stars have to our planet’s existence and the existence of elements on Earth today. He suspects that about 15 billion years ago, stars either exploded or collided, sending radioactive particles into the universe.
After many technical difficulties, lost homework assignments, complaints and deliberation, MSU announced Tuesday the selection of Desire2Learn, or D2L, as the university’s new online learning management system, or LMS. Blackboard’s purchase of the company that built ANGEL in 2009 was the push for MSU to officially start looking for a new LMS, Brendan Guenther, director of teaching and learning support teams in MSU Information Technology, said. MSU considered proposals from two systems to potentially replace ANGEL: Blackboard and D2L. The LMS Futures Committee, consisting of spokespeople from each college and Libraries and IT Services, along with faculty and student input, considered both systems before making the final decision this summer. “These are two really good options,” Guenther said.
Athlon Sports recently ranked the nation’s top 30 college basketball coaches, with MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo first on the list.
In a court verdict handed down Wednesday, cities and townships are legally prohibited from banning the growth and use of medical marijuana. The Michigan Court of Appeals decided the state medical marijuana law pre-empts a local ordinance in Wyoming, Mich., and local ordinances do not have more authority than state law, the Detroit Free Press reported. The verdict stems from a case in which a patient using medical marijuana challenged a city zoning ordinance that prohibited the use or growth of marijuana.
More than 7,000 Boy Scouts have taken over MSU for the National Order of the Arrow Conference, or NOAC, this week at several places on campus.