Kids, kids, kids. They’re everywhere. More than 73.7 million in the United States in 2006. We call children our future, our little bundles of joy. But is our cultural obsession with our own children really helping us as a society?
Michigan became the eighth and final state to ratify the Great Lakes Compact on Wednesday after Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a package of water use legislation which included the compact.
Lansing-area Steve & Barry’s outlets face a questionable future as the nationwide chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday.
A fire extinguisher was reported missing from Snyder-Phillips Hall last Thursday at 10:30 a.m., MSU police Lt. Jennifer Brown said.
Biggby Coffee, a coffee store that never originally intended to franchise, is going to celebrate the opening of its 100th store on Tuesday by giving out free drinks.
Lansing residents Alyshia and Verlinda Roberson have camped out for seven nights straight in front of the opening gates at Lansing’s Common Ground Music Festival since it began nine years ago. Each year, the mother-daughter duo has taken what they call a “vacation” from work and slept in folding chairs just to be the first ones to enter the summer music festival.
Cell phones, e-mail, research — just some of the pressures facing students and faculty outside of class and personal life.
Therapy dogs were the stars of the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, on Wednesday morning as children were lined up out the door for their chance to read to the dogs.
Northwest Airlines Corp. announced Wednesday it would be cutting 2,500 jobs nationwide due to high fuel prices.
Members of the East Lansing Police Department are using alternative programs aimed toward safety education as part of an ongoing effort to maintain positive contact with students and residents of the city.
Ever heard of a guy named T. Boone Pickens? If you haven’t, it might become a household name if he follows through with his multibillion-dollar plan to help solve America’s energy problems.
The imposition of the Common Ground Music Festival on the Lansing City Market’s vendors and customers is uncompensated and barely acknowledged. More than 60 percent of on-site parking and access to the market has been overtaken by festival personnel and barricades.
For all of its intentions to the contrary, the phrase “politically correct” has stirred quite a bit of ill feeling for itself. This is a complex matter with many strong emotions attached to it, and it is certainly too broad to discuss in 700 words, but I would like to set down some general thoughts on this postmodern phenomenon.
A bittersweet good-bye is commonplace for a soldier — the willingness to serve their country, compounded by the fact that they must leave their loved ones behind during their time of service. Twenty-year-old Lansing resident Spc. Wayne Weigel’s final adieu before his deployment to Afghanistan this week included parting ways with his family, friends and another element of his life just as meaningful to him — his music.
A rental car parked at Candlewood Suites on Forest Road was damaged Sunday between 3:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., MSU police Lt. Jennifer Brown said.
MSU students and local police say fining people for wearing their pants too low should be at the tail end of police officers’ duties.
A proposal to allow stem cell research will be on Michigan’s November ballot, causing a variety of reactions within the state according to CureMichigan.
If budget cuts go as planned for Ingham County, the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department may lose two sergeants, a lieutenant, a detective and a deputy by 2009.
Thomas McGuane remembers talking with excitement to other young writers about literature as an MSU student during the early 1960s — but that’s not all he remembers. “It seemed like MSU always had a lot of beautiful girls,” the now acclaimed writer said. “That probably stands out more in my mind than anything else.”
Cheating on tests and quizzes, once near impossible with teachers roaming the aisles of a classroom, becomes easier when the only contact with the instructor is via e-mail.