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MICHIGAN

Shop holds skate day festivities

Lauren Talley
June 21, 2007

Compared with the 7-year-olds who regularly walk into his Lansing skateboard shop, Steve Darling is a bit older. That's how the nickname "skate dad" stuck, the 21-year-old said. Today, Darling will join his clientele - who range from elementary school to middle-aged - on the ramps to celebrate Go Skateboarding Day. Go Skateboarding Day, which Congress has recognized since 2004, raises awareness about the skateboarding culture. "Basically, it's just a day to go skateboarding.

NEWS

What's brewing in E.L.?

Jon Schultz
June 21, 2007

At Eric March's wedding, he welcomed his new in-laws with a nice cold one. But it wasn't just any generic beer flowing from the tap behind the bar. Instead, the drink was something fresh from the home-brewing enthusiast's kitchen in his Lansing town house. Home brewing is a growing hobby for people who want to drink something that cannot be found in the aisles of a local liquor store. For the last three years, March, an MSU graduate student, has crafted his own beer.

MICHIGAN

Project SAFE Street results in 214 arrests

Cash Kruth
June 20, 2007

Michigan State Police, along with the Michigan Department of Corrections, arrested 214 fugitives during a three-day sweep of the state. The sweep, which occurred June 5-7, was a part of Project SAFE Street, or Statewide Apprehension of Fugitives Effort Street Sweep.

MSU

Trustees honor 10 professors

Jennifer Orlando
June 20, 2007

MSU added 10 University Distinguished Professors for 2007, bumping up the total number to 104 since the designation process was authorized in 1989. The MSU Board of Trustees approved Friday the following professors recommended by MSU Provost Kim Wilcox: Wolfgang Bauer, Timothy C.

NEWS

Word on the street

What do you think of having a calendar like "East Lansing's Girls Next Dorm?" "It gives Michigan State a really bad name - it doesn't properly represent Michigan State girls." Janna Hiblernutritional sciences senior "To each his own.

NEWS

Effects of Mich. business tax explored, yet to be determined

Pete Nichols
June 20, 2007

Although the proposed Michigan Business Tax is still several steps away from becoming full-fledged legislation, some organizations are trying to gauge the impact of what the new tax will mean for small businesses. Groups, such as the Michigan Business & Professional Association and the Michigan Food and Beverage Association, sent out faxes Tuesday outlining some of the tax's features and requesting feedback from various businesses that would be affected by the MBT. "We just wanted to give our members the information to hear different companies say, 'This is not good for me,' or 'This is good for me,'" said Bonnie Bochniak, government relations director for both organizations. The proposed MBT is a replacement for the Single Business Tax, or SBT, which was repealed in November. The MBT will be based primarily on a .76 percent tax of the difference between a business's sales and purchase of tangible property.

MSU

German enriches students

Rachael Zylstra
June 20, 2007

High school students participating in a German Summer Camp this week are submerging themselves into the culture - right at MSU. The free camp, which meets 2-5 p.m., Monday-Friday this week in C-311 Wells Hall, is geared toward creating a better understanding of German culture.

MICHIGAN

See Mudge's Follies at Yankee Doodle Days

Jennifer Orlando
June 20, 2007

Take a journey back in time, to an age when flower power was a way of life and "groovy" was considered trendy slang, with Grand Ledge's 27th annual Yankee Doodle Days. Get down to "Sounds of the Sixties," performed by Mudge's Follies at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday in the Grand Ledge High School auditorium, 820 Springs St.

NEWS

Sex appeal for sale

Thea Neal
June 20, 2007

At the age of 5, Tyler McClure was selling lemonade at the end of his driveway. Seventeen years later, McClure is trading in lemonade for sex appeal. Three years ago, the East Lansing resident wrote a business plan to create and sell a calendar featuring girls from the Lansing area clad in scandalous getups.

COMMENTARY

A part of America

How do you feel when you encounter a Muslim for the first time? Do you ever find yourself wondering why and how they got to the U.S.? What mental picture occurs in the back of your mind?

NEWS

Changes to come to soccer complex

Ryan Beene
June 20, 2007

The East Lansing Soccer Complex soon will have a new team building, two new press boxes and a covered admissions booth, after the East Lansing City Council voted to grant a contract to D.L.

MICHIGAN

4-H queen reinstated after charges dropped

Cash Kruth
June 20, 2007

The Oakland County Fair Board has reinstated animal science junior Kate Mills as the 4-H queen, according to reports from The Associated Press. Mills' title had been taken after charges were filed against her and her family for animal cruelty and torture at their Imlay Township family farm.

COMMENTARY

Chemicals used in some vaccines linked to autism

As a parent of a child who is nearly recovered from autism, I was appalled by Kristin Horner's letter, "Professional journals aid scientific understanding" (SN 6/19), which includes scathing criticism of Dr. David Ayoub, and his hard work and dedication to families affected by autism. I am left to wonder what would motivate a graduate student studying anthropology to pen a letter about a subject in which she has no apparent expertise. The evidence linking the mercury-based vaccine preservative Thimerosal to autism is extensive. All one has to do is read the Material Safety Data Sheet, or MSDS, for Thimerosal to understand it is a dangerous neurotoxin, capable of causing "severe mental retardation and moderate to severe motor coordination impairment." My own child, who was exposed to amounts of ethylmercury in the form of Thimerosal that exceeded Environmental Protection Agency safe-exposure guidelines by many hundreds of times, has been confirmed mercury toxic, via urinary porphyrin analysis.

NEWS

E.L. sponsorship of trolley up for vote

Ryan Beene
June 19, 2007

The Entertainment Express trolleys connecting Lansing and East Lansing nightlife could receive $2,500 from the East Lansing City Council if its members vote to continue sponsorship. Ridership has steadily grown from the 188 riders the trolley service had when it began in October 2006.