Developments might be moving forward to add both rental housing and permanent residential units in East Lansing. The East Lansing City Council will vote on approving plans for two different developments in the area at its 7:30 p.m.
MSU, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Grand Rapids Public Schools are hoping to make Grand Rapids children more FIT. The collective is working on a project called the FIT initiative, which is funded by a $1 million grant from Blue Cross. Tracy Thompson, director of the FIT program and outreach specialist in the MSU College of Human Medicine, said the program aims to help all children, regardless of body size. “The directive is to address childhood obesity and we’re trying to be aware of the fact that it’s not just taking those who happen to be overweight but children of all sizes,” Thompson said.
Letters might be signed and sealed, but delivery could be up in the air if a United States Postal Service, or USPS, proposal to cut Saturday delivery is successful. Last week, before Congress, Postmaster General John Potter suggested eliminating delivery service on Saturdays to address the decline in mail volume, which decreased by 9.5 billion pieces in 2008.
Power outages have been reported in the neighborhoods surrounding Trowbridge Road and Lilac Avenue, across the street from campus. Consumers Energy has reported 466 customers are temporarily experiencing power failures because of some tripped fuses at a substation located near the neighborhood.
The possible move of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a Standish Maximum Correctional Facility is inciting debate among state officials as they weigh its pros and cons. Last week, U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., confirmed the prison, which is set to close Oct. 1, is a potential facility for the detainees. “Sen. Levin believes that the idea should be considered if the arrangements are acceptable to state and local officials,” Levin officials said.
A plan to increase the state’s beer tax might seem like a buzz kill, but some state officials are hopeful the increase would alleviate the budget deficit. “By adding less than a quarter to a six-pack, we could save some of these programs that we believe are very important to our future,” said Judy Putnam, spokeswoman for the Michigan League for Human Services, or MLHS.
The East Lansing Police Department has identified a suspect for at least two of the five explosions that occurred during the summer months. Police said they identified a 20-year-old male MSU student from Linden, Mich., who might have been responsible for two of the recent series of explosions. On May 25, the first explosion at the intersection of Grove and Elizabeth streets was reported.
Rain, shine or humidity, people flocked to the Great Lakes Folk Festival this weekend in East Lansing. The festival, produced by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum, offered festivalgoers an opportunity to partake in a multicultural experience of food, music, arts and dance. For three days, downtown East Lansing was transformed into a cultural center with heritages ranging from African to Scandinavian.
Sunday was the second-hottest day of the summer thus far, but it didn’t keep area residents inside. The high was 91 degrees Sunday, WLNS 6 News meteorologist Jim Geyer said.
The genetic causes for conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease could be hidden in Michigan. A group of MSU researchers is studying a Mid-Michigan community to look for the genes behind common illnesses.
Legislators, wine makers and the public gathered Thursday at Kellogg Center to sample the state’s award-winning wines at the 32nd annual Michigan Wine and Spirits Competition and public Gold Medal Reception.
The heat and humidity didn’t stop the herds of people and horses that flocked to the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education this past weekend for the 2009 Michigan State 4-H Horse Show.
I’m writing in response to the editorial “Clunkers program success proves need for extension”:http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/08/clunkers_program_success_proves_need_for_extension (SN 8/3). I would like to offer readers another opinion of the program. First, the article explains the program as a success, and hardly expands on what its original goals were.
We have found ourselves debating whether or not the government should take over our health care system and our industries; we should instead look to solutions that actually work and will give us the best chance to retain our world standing.
Despite the success of Michigan’s push to draw filmmakers into the state with incentives like tax credits, some in the state Legislature still aren’t pleased. After only a year with the country’s biggest tax credit to the film industry, there are opponents claiming that the credits cost the state too much and that spending should be capped.
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday as she becomes the third woman and first Hispanic justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
To some, texting while driving is a skill learned by precariously typing a message on a cell phone while steering, but lawmakers are trying to put the brakes on this practice with a bill to ban texting while driving.
A company known for manufacturing goods with MSU logos and trademarks has been “put on notice” by the university in light of growing allegations that it permits unfair labor practices.
The East Lansing Police Department has narrowed its search for suspects involved in four suspicious explosions that occurred in East Lansing since May. The explosions occurred during an almost two-month span, with the first incident May 25 at the intersection of Grove and Elizabeth streets and the most recent July 16 in the intersection of Evergreen Avenue and Fern Street.
What started off as a musical festival 40 years ago on farmland near Bethel, N.Y., ultimately became a symbol of an enormous movement within America’s youth culture. Woodstock, a four-day series of musical performances in August 1969 that attracted about 500,000 people to watch performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and the Grateful Dead, was a pivotal point in American history that marked a break from the tradition-based society of the 1950s, said Gary Hoppenstand, an MSU professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures.