The MSU women’s basketball team missed out on the 2002 NCAA Tournament, but it will get a sufficient dosage of last year’s qualifiers in the upcoming season. Of the 27 games the Spartans are slated to play in the 2002-03 season, 11 - five at home - will be against teams that were in the Big Dance last March. The schedule features 14 games at Breslin Center.
With as much of a two-year waiting period for decisions, candidates for 4th District Court of Appeals judgeships said they are hoping to increase court efficiency.Three candidates - a judge, a senator and a lawyer are vying for the position in the Aug.
MSU defensive end Clifford Dukes was cleared of four counts of assault and battery and two counts of aggravated assault in 54-B District Court on Tuesday. The charges were brought against Dukes in March after an Oct.
The fountain outside the Main Library is expected to be filled today and should be flowing this weekend, campus officials said. There is a chance maintenance work on the steps near the library’s north entrance might delay plans to fill the pools, Campus Park & Planning director Jeff Kacos said Tuesday, but officials don’t expect a problem. In mid-June, Kacos said cold spring weather, budget concerns and possible repairs were delaying the fountains’ opening.
Child obesity has become a problem in the United States according to medical officials.To address the issue of childhood obesity and ways to remedy the problem, 100 physicians, pediatricians and nutritionists will meet today at MSU.
With continued budget shortfalls expected in Michigan’s immediate economic future, the decision of who will be the state’s next governor is one voters shouldn’t take lightly.
Capital Area Transportation Authority officials want area residents to approve a proposed five-year millage increase on Tuesday’s primary election ballot. But with a weak economy, some might not want to increase CATA’s property tax of 1.4 mills by about 58 percent. The .82-mill increase would cost an owner of a $60,000 home $24.60 more a year in property taxes.
Art students at Lansing Community College have been making a glass mural for the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan, 121 S.
As promised, this week I have composed a second and final part to my “Field Guide to Spartan Cliques.” The first part, published in these pages two weeks ago, stirred up a veritable hornet’s nest of indignant feedback, provided that those hornets are all dead and the nest is in the trash - in other words, nobody wrote me a damn thing.
With the cigarette tax scheduled to increase by 50 cents today, some smokers are feeling the burn.Wesley Thomas contends the change, along with measures across the country to eliminate smoking in public, is discrimination against smokers.“It’s stupid that they’re raising taxes and saying that we can’t smoke where we want to,” the 19-year-old Lansing resident said.
Six candidates will face off in the Lansing City Council primary Tuesday, but only two will move on to the November election.The winner in November will fill the remaining three years of former Councilmember Lou Adado’s four-year term.
Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about East Lansing’s expansion into other communities. Jonathan Rosenthal said everyone walked away with a smile when Bath Township and East Lansing leaders struck a land-share deal earlier this summer. But it seems the business administration and pre-law senior was wrong.
Name: John “Joe” SchwarzAge: 64Hometown: Battle CreekOccupation: Physician/surgeon, state senatorFamily: First wife deceased, divorced from second wife; one daughterPolitical background: State senator, 1987-present, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education chairman; Battle Creek mayor, 1985-86; Battle Creek city commissioner, 1979-85Web site: www.schwarz2002.comStance on the issuesOvercoming the state’s budget difficulties: Take a leadership position with the Legislature and be totally honest with citizens about budget cuts needed to offset an expected $1 billion deficit in 2003; at a minimum, the single-business tax and income-tax cuts should be paused for two years.Higher education affordability: Since tuition increases are directly related to state appropriations, increase support to public higher education to keep tuition low; universities must be cooperative, sincere in efforts to hold down tuition; enhance financial aid opportunities; wary of proposals to constitutionally limit tuition decrease or penalize state funding, which may harm ability to give high quality education.Environment: Improve storm, sewer systems to stop worst of water pollution in southeast Michigan; create strong aquifer protection law, negotiate Great Lakes water agreements; reduce mercury pollution with cleaner power plants, closing waste incinerators; push for regulations of out-of-state waste; develop basinwide program to stop foreign species invasion of Great Lakes; expand bottle law to include juice, water containers.Transportation: Maintain best possible roadways; believes it’s irresponsible to think additional gasoline taxes may not be necessary to continue appropriate level of needed road and bridge repairs, improvements.Abortion rights: Believes individuals have legal right to make decisions based on Roe v.
Current efforts to clean up and repair MSU’s aging Sparty, believed to be the largest free-standing ceramic statue in the world, are necessary and, unfortunately, a regular event.
Remix albums are all the rage among rappers and hard-rockers these days, but usually prove to be complete flop or an album with only one or two decent songs. And to make a remix a band should have a few albums to its name to have enough good songs to actually remix. So a band has got to have a lot of guts to remix its debut album and put it out two years later.
What would you do if I promised you a column about singing drunks, spaced-out radio station listeners and know-it-alls that would put Bullwinkle J.
Name: Andrew “Rocky” RaczkowskiAge: 34Hometown: Farmington HillsOccupation: State representativeFamily: Single; no childrenPolitical background: Became youngest member of the Legislature in 1996; served as House majority floor leader; House vice chairman of the Committee on Health PolicyWeb site: www.rockyforsenate.comStance on the issuesImproving the federal economy: Keep interest rates low to allow young people to afford to buy things; ensure the most-qualified person to be Federal Reserve chairman is appointed.Higher education affordability: Eliminate U.S.
Name: James BlanchardAge: 60Hometown: Beverly HillsOccupation: AttorneyFamily: Married to Janet; one sonPolitical background: U.S.
All seven candidates for two Ingham County Circuit Court judgeships said they hope to run a fair and efficient courtroom if elected.The Aug.