The Republican Party has received flack from the media and the left for being too “conservative,” while on the other hand there are those who are considered “conservative” stating that the party is becoming too moderate.
Protesters are lining up in Lansing and other cities around the country — all for a proposal from California’s state elections last November. Proposition 8, which passed in the election, outlawed same-sex marriage throughout the state and later became subject to a state Supreme Court review.
Grand Haven — Jurors began deliberation Wednesday in the murder trial of Troy Brake, who is charged with killing MSU student Katherine A. Brown and three others.
Grand Haven — People sitting on the prosecutor’s side of the courtroom wept Wednesday as a former inmate acquainted with Troy Brake, who is charged with killing an MSU student and three others, recounted how Brake said he beat MSU student Katherine A. Brown because shooting her would have been “too good” for her.
MSU researchers are buzzing about a discovery they’ve made in the farmlands of Southwest Michigan. While conducting a three-year study in the region’s blueberry fields, researchers found seven species not previously known to inhabit Michigan. “Nobody had really surveyed the bees here, so that was sort of the premise for starting it,” said researcher Julianna Tuell, who conducted the study for her dissertation in entomology. The work accounted for more than 160 species of bees, 112 of which were present during blooming season.
President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday created a divide in the MSU community, with some praising the nomination and others questioning Obama’s choice.
The 50-year relationship between MSU and Africa has opened doors and shaped the histories of both MSU and some of Africa’s nations. From study abroad to establishing research programs in developing countries, what began more than half a century ago has elevated MSU to the top of the nation’s African studies programs.
Before heading off to have brain surgery at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, Tom Cook and his partner, Jerry Ward, made the decision to commit their lives to each other. And after Cook made it through his 1996 operation, the duo was the first male same-sex couple to wed at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Lansing in November of that year.
The Wraggs family is hoping small adjustments add up to big savings. The first weekend after picking up his kids from St.
Drivers might have to pay more to fill up their tank because of proposed national climate change legislation, but it could result in positive long-term effects for Michigan, state officials said.
Michael Nelson, an MSU associate professor of fisheries and wildlife, knows that being a scientist means having responsibilities outside of the lab. He and more than 180 Michigan scientists, lived up to those responsibilities last week by signing a letter pressuring Michigan lawmakers to take swift action against climate change in the Great Lakes State.
It might seem like a contradiction that there could be Democrat student groups at Jerry Falwell’s Christian Liberty University. Well, there were. The private university recently shut down its only liberal student organization, the College Democrats.
Since I’ve been old enough to remember, I’ve suckled at the teat of technology. While my parents were raising my sister, I was being incubated by the warm glow of my television. But I wasn’t raised on cable TV; I was raised on Nintendo.
A 52-year-old male employee reported a GPS stolen from a university vehicle May 15, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Students will have further protections from credit card company practices because of a bill signed into law by President Barack Obama on Friday. Those practices include aggressive solicitation, unclear terms of agreement, interest rate hikes and added fees.
East Lansing’s newest drug-detection dog was purchased using drug money last year. As part of the city’s Drug Forfeiture Fund, which consists of money and property seized during drug-related crimes, money is accumulated and then spent on drug prevention, equipment and education for the East Lansing Police Department.
Prosecutors plan to continue to stack evidence against Troy Brake, who is charged with killing MSU student Katherine A. Brown and three others, at his trial, which is scheduled to continue Wednesday.
Bicycles of all shapes and sizes can be seen rolling down the streets of East Lansing, and the riders of the bikes are just as diverse as the two-wheeled, pedal-powered machines that propel them. The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety reported in fall 2008 a 273 percent increase in campus bike registration since 2003, indicating more people are getting geared up to ride bikes.
MSU’s College of Music and College of Education will have a new base of operations in the Detroit area beginning this fall. The university signed a seven-year lease on a 22,000-square-foot building, located at 3408 Woodward Ave., in Detroit.
For Gordon Small, a Lansing resident and Korean War veteran, celebrating Memorial Day evokes more emotion each year, and the lack of community involvement he sees doesn’t help. “It’s too bad that the citizenry of Lansing just didn’t pour out here to honor these guys,” Small said.