The East Lansing City Council postponed its decision regarding a wetland use permit for an office park development in the Northern Tier. The council members first discussed the permit at a Feb.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton earned the Excellence in Local Government award from the Michigan Local Government Management Association during the association's winter conference. "It's always nice to be recognized by your peers in your profession," Staton said.
Meredith Phillis' letter "Cartoon distorts current status of global warming" (SN 2/12), is blatantly incorrect.
A proposed bill in the state House could provide Michigan residents with a little bit more incentive to serve their country. The legislation, titled "Veterans Tuition Waiver Act," would grant free tuition for certain qualified veterans of the U.S.
For MSU researchers, entrepreneurial endeavors may not be as far from their grasp as before. The Office of Intellectual Property has been revamped into MSU Technologies, an office designed to facilitate the development of researchers' patents and discoveries into licensed products for the marketplace. MSU President Lou Anna K.
Turn on the TV, but put down the Cheetos. The television, America's favorite distraction, can come in handy when trying to firm up or shed a few pounds. Another week closer to spring break, my trial membership to Powerhouse Gym had run out, leaving me to scrounge for new fitness techniques.
MSU women's soccer head coach Tom Saxton announced Monday four new recruits who will join 10 returning starters from last year's squad that went 8-9-1 and missed the Big Ten playoffs. The team picked up two defenders, a defender-midfielder and a forward. "Our 2007 Michigan State recruiting class may be small in number, but it in no way will it be small in impact," Saxton said in a written statement.
Today is your last chance to pick up election packets to run for one of the more than 30 open seats of ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government.
Dearborn — About 15 MSU students braved early morning traffic to show their support for Republican Mitt Romney on Tuesday, who formally announced his presidential bid at the Henry Ford Museum. "Being a youth, it's important to show support," said Leo Madarang, chairman of MSU's Students for Romney.
Editor's note: Sam Howell was first profiled in The State News on Nov. 15, 2005. In a photograph, Sam Howell the soccer goalie dives at the ground — legs extended, hands wrapped around the ball.
Big Rapids — The No. 6 Spartans nine-game unbeaten streak ended Tuesday night after a 2-1 loss to Ferris State. The game resembled Friday's matchup with the Bulldogs (10-19-3 overall, 7-15-2 CCHA) in many ways — superb goaltending, defensive struggles, tied score at one apiece late into the game. The only difference was who scored the final goal. "This loss hurts a lot," MSU head hockey coach Rick Comley said.
The restructuring of academic governance at MSU took its first big step when it became the focus of an in-depth discussion during Tuesday's Faculty Council meeting. The restructuring, called Task Force 1, is part of a set of proposals brought to the current governance system by Faculty Voice — a group of faculty members whose goal is to give faculty more say in how the university functions. There are five parts to the Faculty Voice proposals, Task Forces 1-5 respectively. "It went really well because people were serious about their comments.
Lansing — A third man might have been involved in the 1973 murder of MSU junior Martin V.
A residential and retail development already two years in the making will go before the East Lansing planning commission again tonight. Developer Lingg Brewer said he's asking for a one-year extension to his East Lansing development project, which calls for a four-story building with 10,000 square feet of mixed residential and retail space on the property at 500 Albert Ave.
With an ever-increasing field of potential candidates, the 2008 run for the White House is starting to heat up in earnest. Seemingly every day, a new candidate either formally has thrown his or her hat into the ring, formed an exploratory committee or has begun glad-handing around the country in order to drum up support in a bid for the presidency. The latest addition to the roster of presidential hopefuls is Mitt Romney, the Republican former governor of Massachusetts. Romney, however, didn't announce his candidacy in Massachusetts, where he lives.
Only two MSU players were able to find their range Tuesday night, but that's all the Spartans needed to top intrastate rival Michigan. Junior guard Drew Neitzel must've felt the urgency of the conditions surrounding the matchup with U-M because he wasted no time in lighting up the scoreboard. Neitzel, known for his second-half scoring outbursts, poured in 14 points and three assists in the opening 20 minutes.
Mitt Romney is expected to talk about the ingenuity that has driven U.S. prosperity in the past and how it can still create a bright future for American workers at The Henry Ford museum today in Dearborn to officially kick off his presidential campaign And roughly 15 MSU students from the group Mitt for Michigan will attend the event in support, said Leo Madarang, one of the group's coordinators. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, gave a hint of what he'll be talking when he spoke to reporters Saturday at the Republican state convention in Grand Rapids. "Michigan is … a place of innovation and technology.
I had the pleasure of hearing Sen. Barack Obama speak last October in Detroit. Before then, I had not heard much of Sen.
With spirituality seeming to be a fad in these latter days, we rarely ever hear anything positive about the many sects and denominations of one of the oldest faiths on the planet: Christianity.