Five more properties on the 600 block of Virginia Avenue are slated to be demolished before the end of the summer,pending the approval of the city's brownfield redevelopment plan. The plan will provide $800,000 of long-term funding for the Virginia Avenue project which has a total budget of $5.2 million.
Detroit Tigers' Jason Verlander's no-hitter Tuesday evoked cheers from passing cars during my evening jog.
I'm writing in response to Isaac DeVille's column "Reclaim patriotism," (SN 6/12). DeVille left me cringing after I read his callow treatise on American patriotism.
Detroit — It's something not many people can say they have seen in their lifetime. In fact, the last time it happened by a Tigers pitcher in Detroit was 55 years ago.
The answer to Michigan's struggle with the emerald ash borer could be lurking in the basement of Giltner Hall. Hundreds of parasitic wasps, no more than 2 millimeters in length, are being kept there.
Paul B.A. Holland's column "Generation must prove importance" (SN 6/13) was an impressive hodgepodge of cloying clichés and conservative propaganda masking itself as the humble voice of a generation.
State officials heard testimony Tuesday from restaurant and bar owners during a discussion in the Capitol of a statewide ban on smoking. The ban, which was proposed by Democrats in the Michigan House of Representatives, would alter the standing law allowing restaurants and taverns to select whether or not they want to allow smoking in their facilities. The proposed ban would be an unnecessary interference, said Andy Deloney, director of government affairs for the Michigan Restaurant Association, or MRA. "We don't need the government stepping in to tell us what's best for business," Deloney said.
In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a sense that fathers were irrelevant in child-rearing, said Hiram Fitzgerald, a distinguished MSU psychology professor. "People thought they just sort of made the money and paid the bills, and didn't have much else to do," he said. Eleven years, 3,000 families and 800 fathers later, Fitzgerald has seen the impact the fathers have on their children. Fitzgerald is part of a national evaluation of Early Head Start families.
2007: The year I graduate from college, the year I have been anticipating since fifth grade - it is finally here.
A bill passed by U.S. legislators allowing federal funding of stem cell research will likely be vetoed by President Bush, local political experts said. Stem cell research is legal, but using federal funds to finance the research is not, said Leonard Fleck, professor of philosophy and in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. "(The government) won't allow any federal funding for that research, or the use of equipment that's been used previously under federal grants, even if the grant has long been expired," Fleck said. The bill was passed with the knowledge that it would not go past Bush's desk, said Bill Ballenger, editor and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. "As an issue, Bush has vetoed (a) stem cell bill, and he'll do it again," Ballenger said. Bush exercised his first veto last year on a similar bill, which was proposed by a then Republican-controlled Congress. "The people who are talking about it are using it as a political talking point because they know there's public support behind it," Ballenger said. Others agreed with Ballenger's assessment. "The bill is certain to be vetoed," said Thomas Mann, a scholar and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, an independent research and policy institute.
MSU's new Structural Fire Testing Facility could lead to research that would help save the lives of first responders and those they rescue. The Structural Fire Testing Facility, unveiled Tuesday, will be used to test how buildings' beams and columns react to temperatures as high as 2,200 degrees and weights up to 250,000 pounds, said Venkatesh Kodur, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. MSU's testing facility, which is the first in the nation operated by a university, will generate research that could help engineers design buildings to better withstand great weights and temperatures, preventing the structures from collapsing on firefighters and other first responders, Kodur said. "If it protects injuries and deaths of firefighters, that's very dear to me," Kodur said.
He withstood your crying as a baby, puking as a toddler and gave you lunch money as a preteen. Now that you're an adult (well almost), transform your dad from a T-shirt wearing papa to a statuesque daddy with a stunning necktie. The necktie serves as a perfect palette for Dad to express himself while wearing a conservative suit.
He barbecues. He golfs. He can mow the lawn like it's nobody's business. He's Super Dad.
Attaching orange, pipe-cleaner hair to her paper plate mask, 7-year-old Lindsey Walker contemplates a stapler.
Maurice Joseph, who would have been entering his junior season with the MSU men's basketball team, has announced his decision to transfer to the University of Vermont. The 6-foot-4 guard appeared in 31 games for the Spartans last season.
Proposed bills in the Michigan House of Representatives may allow high school students to take classes at a community college or four-year university.
Recently, there has been news regarding Andrew Speaker, the man who boarded an airplane despite his tuberculosis diagnosis. Passengers on board are still being tested and, as of yet, no new cases have been reported.
MSU sophomore Bianca Mejia will join the USA Junior Women's National Softball Team at the ISF Junior Women's Fast Pitch World Championships. The tournament will take place June 20-30 in Enschede, Netherlands, with the United States playing its first game against Puerto Rico at 9 a.m.
Ted Staton The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree for City Manager Ted Staton's 8-year-old son, Paul. "It's a joke around the house that he'll grow up to be a city manager," Staton said.