The East Lansing City Council faced a grim reality as it walked away from its preliminary budget planning meeting at Eagle Eye Golf Club Saturday with proposals to eliminate a combined 2010 and 2011 fiscal year deficit of nearly $5 million.
Elementary and middle school students from across the state took over the Union on Saturday with family, coaches, teachers and chess boards in tow. Students filled the first floor of the building as early as 7 a.m. with coolers, blankets, pillows and folding chairs in anticipation of the Michigan Scholastic Chess Tournament. Playing with their friends, tournament competitors laughed and chased each other in the hallways and outside. As the tournament commenced, however, the atmosphere upstairs became much more serious.
A 37-year-old female reported her car stolen on MSU’s campus in Detroit on Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Faculty members from the Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing are grading the best and worst of the commercials during Super Bowl XLIV on Sunday.
The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road, will be closed today for a staff furlough.
The East Lansing City Council will begin budget brainstorming Saturday during its weekend retreat as the city faces a deficit that is expected to exceed the current fiscal year’s almost $2 million shortfall.
Michigan voters will be offered the opportunity to overturn the Michigan constitution in November’s election.
Blood pressure, temperature and a two-question survey screening for depression soon will become part of a routine checkup for students seeking treatment at Olin Health Center.
By the year 2100, the globe is at risk to lose 40 percent of the animal population to extinction, according to Terry Root.
The vacant lots and abandoned houses of Detroit’s urban landscape could turn into green pastures soon. MSU started a partnership with the Greening of Detroit, a Detroit-based nonprofit organization aimed at encouraging environmental awareness in Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen’s Earthworks Garden and the Detroit Agriculture Network to create the Garden Resource Program Collaborative.
In the basement of the Engineering Building is a series of doors, behind which lie robots that climb walls, detect breast cancer tumors and test protective clothing worn by soldiers.
After months of searching, MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business will have a chance to break new ground if Stefanie Lenway is approved as the new dean. Lenway, currently the dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, College of Business Administration, would be the first female dean in the history of MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business.
People might take issue with the bailout’s billions of dollars, the national deficit and the trillions tied to China, but the city of East Lansing is grabbing at every penny of grant money Washington has to offer.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Wednesday her plan to restore funding for the Michigan Promise Scholarship in her 2011 budget. The announcement came as part of the governor’s final State of the State address.
East Lansing City Council voted to move downtown taxi stands back to their original Albert Avenue location and also created six additional spaces on the street during its Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
MSU Community Programs is hosting a clothing drive until Feb. 22. MSU Community Programs is part of the Student Alumni Foundation.
Terry Root, a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, is scheduled to discuss climate change and its effect on Michigan species from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Union, Parlors A and B.
Visit any local grocery store and you’ll find a seemingly endless spread of some of the world’s finest fish, ready for purchase. To the average consumer, the variety and abundance of fish appears to have never been greater — and that’s the problem, said Bill Taylor, an MSU professor of fisheries and wildlife.
The future of alternative fuels and economic freedom might be as simple as grass clippings and wood chips. Biomass such as straw, switchgrass and wood chips can be used to produce cellulosic ethanol, a potential replacement to ethanol produced from corn, wheat and rice, said Bruce Dale, associate director of MSU’s Office of Biobased Technologies.
The Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office received a request from the East Lansing Police Department for a fugitive warrant for Leo Wales III, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.