The race is on for Lansing mayor, and the four candidates have begun their campaigns, vying for the city's top job. The candidates include two who previously ran for office and two who are new to the mayoral race.
The city of East Lansing's riot police expenditures figure of $190,389 for the April 2-3 disturbances is grossly out of line with the $5,775 in damage caused by crowds.
As the defending world champion Pistons competed Monday night in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat, local bars and restaurants also competed to draw the largest crowds. With most MSU students gone for the summer, bars and restaurants are experiencing less business, so they've turned to things such as high-definition TVs to lure people into their establishments, said Aaron Weiner, the general manager of Buffalo Wild Wings, 360 Albert Ave. Retired East Lansing resident Allan Harwitz said he heads to Buffalo Wild Wings on game nights because of the big screens. "I am here every time the Pistons play because the TVs here are huge," he said, while waiting for the game to begin.
A friend once told Sean Kosofsky that lobbying is years of boredom with moments of intense insanity. Now is one of those times of insanity. Two weeks ago, a study was released suggesting that sexual orientation is biological, refuting those who say it is a chosen lifestyle. For Kosofsky, the director of policy and lobbyist for Triangle Foundation, the research is a significant advance for his ongoing efforts to advocate lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender rights in Michigan. "Directly and indirectly, there are legislators that see the gay community as nothing more than a sexual behavior," he said.
To help people appreciate the history and heritage of the state, Michigan Week was established in 1954 by Don Weeks and is still celebrated today. It is now run by Michigan's Department of History, Arts and Libraries, or HAL. "It started with the concept of taking a week to look at Michigan," said Jim Schultz, who works with the Michigan Humanities Council to coordinate the different events of Michigan Week.
After three months of debate, what is quite possibly the most obvious bill to have been passed through the Legislature in years has finally been signed by the governor. Last week Gov.
I was watching the San Antonio versus Phoenix game the other night and started laughing to myself - in reference to the Suns' performance, particularly on the defensive end of the floor. While Quentin Richardson is jogging back on defense, tapping his fists at the corners of his forehead, Manu Ginobili is flying past him for a layup.
City officials are looking to nearly double the size of downtown, in part to connect the area with the potential East Village redevelopment, while also helping pay for the massive overhaul. The idea would be to increase the property tax for businesses not currently located downtown - such as Tasty Twist, 1307 E.
When Ralph Cifaretto, a mob character on HBO's "The Sopranos," brutally kills his girlfriend, he excuses the act by saying, "She was a whore," (pronounced hoo-ah, to be exact). The implication is that a whore is an untrustworthy, worthless person.
A few large-scale construction projects being tackled this summer could make walking, driving and parking on campus a little tougher for the next few months. Even MSU's president said the construction can be frustrating at times. President Lou Anna K.
Since the emerald ash borer is still a serious problem, this week kicked off the "Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week" in the states of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The emerald ash borer is a beetle that attacks ash trees and eventually kills them.
According to the Ad Council, an organization that promotes public service campaigns, people who are not civically active run the risk of getting "mannequinism," a fictional disease that renders its victims plastic and immobile. The "disease" is being used as a metaphor in a national advertising campaign to get 18- to 24- year-olds to be more engaged in their communities.
"Magnetic," Andi Camp The packaging for Andi Camp's "Magnetic" lives up to the name.
Nearly 90 percent of the video footage taken by a Michigan State Police helicopter during the April 2-3 disturbances was unusable by officers on the ground that night. Technology that would have allowed police at a command center to view video taken from the air malfunctioned, a police report submitted to the East Lansing City Council stated.
After a successful run in the fall, the Pazinski family is back for another holy but humorous laugh - and it's the only household that can use Jesus and Ed Sullivan in the same sentence.
Recent lobbying efforts and proposed legislation have revitalized interest in the $1 billion dollar proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator project that, only a month ago, was thought by some MSU officials to be a lost cause. MSU and the Argonne National Laboratory, located near Chicago, have each been vying for the project, or RIA, but a limited federal budget stalled plans for either location to build it. Physics and astronomy Professor Bradley Sherrill said RIA would make its host the most technologically advanced institution in nuclear physics.
Ten buses carrying Detroit high school students will head to the Capitol on Wednesday to rally against a proposal to end preference-based treatment in university admissions and hiring that might end up on next year's ballot. The proposal, called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI, would amend the state Constitution to prevent public universities and state government from "discriminating or granting preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin." A national group - the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN - which helped organize the rally, filed a legal brief with the Michigan Board of Canvassers last month against MCRI, saying MCRI petition circulators deceived those petitioned to sign their proposal. "This is a distinct case, a campaign to deceive the public, and for that reason it should not go forward," said Donna Stern, national coordinator of BAMN. Wednesday's rally at the Capitol will be followed by a public hearing to collect more information from those who say they were lied to by petitioners. Stern said BAMN wants the Michigan Board of Canvassers to force MCRI to redo their petition. BAMN took a statistical sample of 500 people who signed the MCRI petition were able to reach 300 of them, Stern said.
It would be nice if the United States weren't still divided along racial lines, as Ward Connerly and the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative seem to think - but this is not the case.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's finally here. Five films and more than 25 years later, director George Lucas has created a masterpiece and boy was it worth the wait. "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" laid down the foundation in 1999, and in 2002, Lucas taunted fans with "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones." Now it's time to reap the harvest with "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," undeniably, from start to finish, the best film in 2005.