Senate, Granholm split on budget
The Michigan budget remains unresolved and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, still is withholding six bills in fear of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s veto pen.
The Michigan budget remains unresolved and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, still is withholding six bills in fear of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s veto pen.
The Michigan Senate passed a bill today that would make it legal to hang objects from a car rearview mirror.
If you’re planning to attend a workshop featuring Robyn Ochs, you’re as important to the show as the speaker.
Despite the poor economy and financial struggles of many students and their families, turnout at Wednesday’s Fall Housing Fair was similar to past years and interest in different housing options remained steady, housing officials said.
“The Hangover” is a shameless, vulgar — did I mention hilarious? — romp about a band of four friends and their misfortunes in Las Vegas.
An estimated 34.6 billion plastic water bottles are bought each year and only about 12 percent are recycled.
Bikers will find it easier to travel along one busy road in East Lansing by summer 2010.
The next time your messy roommate polishes off all the Cap’n Crunch, it might be considered legal to resolve concerns in a duel because of legislation heading to the state Senate floor.
ASMSU officials cleared another hurdle Wednesday in their fight for legislation that would give medical amnesty to minors who seek help for alcohol consumption.
The recent articles about “untracked” teaching assistants, or TAs, on campus missed the larger picture. Heather Guenther and the State News editorial board emphasize the lack of centrally-tracked data about TAs on campus but ignore both the localized relationships between TAs and their faculty of record (or “mentors” as Guenther calls them) as well as the unique advantages offered by TA-taught courses.
Just so there is no confusion when fans get their first glimpse of the MSU men’s basketball team this season, sophomore forward Delvon Roe wants to confirm that, yes, that is him wearing No. 10 for the Spartans.
As he was going through workouts and individual skill work this summer, junior forward Tom Herzog had a motivation he never had in his first three years with the MSU men’s basketball team.
The No. 5 MSU women’s golf team always has known what it is capable of.
Some of the more appreciated lyrics of our generation are those of Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. These lyrics include, “I scream for the sunlight or a car to take me anywhere, just get me past this dead and eternal snow, because I swear that I am dying, slowly but it’s happening.”
When money is tight in government, the arts usually are cut right away. Considered expendable and unimportant, art, music and other cultural programs often are the first to see the chopping block in favor of more “valuable” programs or services.
A bill to provide legal safeguards for students who overconsume alcohol passed almost unanimously through a Michigan House of Representatives committee today.
East Lansing City Council discussed allowing city firefighters to continue the tradition of participating in the Fill the Boot campaign to raise money for muscular dystrophy during the council’s meeting Tuesday night at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
A 55-year-old Lansing woman reported her wallet stolen between 4:30 and 5 p.m. Saturday from the Kellogg Center, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
An updated draft of MSU’s Academic Governance bylaws failed to move closer to approval Tuesday, after stakeholders asked for further review of certain sections.
The Michigan Legislature has approved all of Michigan’s 2009-10 fiscal year budget bills, but the state remains without a completed budget because the Senate refuses to send some bills to Gov. Jennifer Granholm for final approval.