For the city of East Lansing, parking revenue is the second largest annual source of operating revenue, behind only sewage user service charges. East Lansing sees more operating revenue from parking expenses than it does from charging its residents for water usage, according to city documents.
Representatives of eight state public universities testified on the proposed budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal term on Tuesday in a joint meeting with both the Appropriations Committee of both the state Senate and House of Representatives.
Many citizens across the country are still reeling from the tragic and senseless murders that occurred last week at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
On Friday night, downtown Lansing was alive with the passion and sound of the six finalists in the 10th annual Homegrown Throwdown event, hosted this year by The Loft. "We try to pick bands that are local, talented and will bring a diverse sound to the event," The Loft's booking and promotions assistant Lauren Godlesky said. Local judges, including gave live feedback to each band after their performances, a la American Idol style. The sounds thumping through The Loft certainly didn't lack for any diversity.
An East Lansing resident who came to the U.S. in 2013 as a refugee from Iraq is charged with lying to federal officials about plans to join the Islamic State in Iraq and conduct jihad, according to court documents. Al-Hamzah Mohammad Jawad, a 29-year-old who shared an apartment in East Lansing with an MSU student, told FBI agents that he had been recruited to join IS by a childhood friend and that he intended to travel from Jordan to Iraq, where he was to attend six months of training. In preparation, he had been running to get in shape and had been to a shooting range, he told agents. But later, when no evidence of the communications between Jawad and his friend could be found on either his cellphone or his laptop, he rescinded the statements, saying he had fabricated the entire story. Unable to provide an explanation as to why he had, Jawad only stated that "his home life was messy." On Feb.
Students crafted new interpretations of Judaism at Paint Your Way Through Israel Tuesday night hosted by MSU Hillel.
An idea that started as a way to make some extra cash for the two soon turned into a desire to create a movement.
East Lansing City Council voted Tuesday night to demolish the house of Claudette Nelson, the once-resident of 1025 Snyder Rd.
“A lot of my support for this bill comes from the fact that we not only want to alleviate the financial burden on students but we also like to attract more academics to East Lansing and the surrounding areas," Williams said. "Once we graduate from MSU, which we view as our homes for for four years, we have opportunities available in the Greater Lansing Area that are suited to to our highly skilled degrees and we don’t have to leave the state that we grew to love to pursue jobs ... that will pay off the debts.”
MSUPD revealed today their newly-implemented alert notification system and announced new measures for emergency preparedness. In a statement released on Facebook, the department said the draw of the new MSU Alert Portal is that users on- and off-campus can tailor more easily the way they'd like to receive emergency alerts and outreach messages. Residents nearby campus and student's parents also can sign up for these messages. MSUPD also unveiled their plan to implement a quicker alert system after March 1 that will send out a short, vital message related to an emergency while a longer message is being written. Lastly, the department will be replacing sirens around campus with speakers that have the ability to broadcast both severe weather warning sirens and vocal messages that tell students what actions to take in an emergency.
For students looking to live on campus next school year, they will have the option of living in newly-constructed buildings in a number of areas.
An offensive tapestry debuted at Urban Outfitters has sparked recent uproar for resembling the uniforms the Nazis forced gay male prisoners to wear during the Holocaust.
“We found abuse was prevalent throughout the book,”Bonomi said. “Christian uses an ‘interlocking pattern of abuse,’ such as stalking and intimidation." Psychology junior Jillian Convery, who said she has read the books and saw the movie, said she could see how someone who did not read the books before seeing the movie might find the film “abusive and horrifying.”
Mimi Patterson said she was happy to have the opportunity to spend time with her daughter. “Now that she's off at college I don't get to see her very often and so for her to invite me to do something with her was awesome, so I jumped at it,” Mimi Patterson said.
In hopes of identifying two persons of interest, the East Lansing Police Department released surveillance photos of two men entering the 7-Eleven convenience store across from the Grove Street Parking Garage on Feb. 5.
When walking into any grocery store this time of year, it’s hard to miss the abundance of flowers, balloons and chocolates. But what about the dildos, vibrators, fuzzy handcuffs and blindfolds?
Clothes. Fragrances. Massages. Mimosas. Fine leather goods.
Dozens of people gathered at the Radiology building Wednesday evening for a vigil held in memory of three Muslim students killed in North Carolina.
In the most recent parking garage incident, two men were shot, resulting in one fatality. As of Tuesday, police have not announced the capture of any suspects, whom they described as two black males, the first being 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing between 165 and 180 pounds and last seen wearing “a hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.” The second was described as a 5-foot-11-inch black male, weighing about 200 pounds.
The two plaintiffs in legal action that arising after Wayne County Airport Authority's decision to move the pick-up and drop-off location of the Michigan Flyer, AirRide and the SMART bus to the south end of the Ground Transportation Center are back in court — a motion to enforce the terms of the settlement was filed this month.