However, with vacant lots and spaces come new ventures. The State News has identified five of these new businesses coming downtown that MSU students and other EL residents can look forward to.
Two Lansing-area record stores — The Record Lounge and Flat, Black and Circular — opened their doors to vinyl collectors last Saturday for Record Store Day.
Two East Lansing officers shot someone in the parking lot of the Lake Lansing Meijer, according to reports.
Human error in the displaying of candidates on the big screen not matching up with the order they were listed on the second ballot caused confusion among precinct delegates, leading to a pause in voting.
Kristina Karamo and Matthew DePerno received the greatest number of delegates votes, winning the Republican nominations for Secretary of State and Attorney General, respectively.
"Name a better trick than being able to rest in peace while Black in America," Black Lives Matter organizer K.T. Saxon said at the rally for Patrick Lyoya on Thursday. "Better yet, name a better illusion than the American dream.”
Thirteen separate claims are being filed against the FBI by survivors of Nassar’s sexual abuse for the bureau’s failure to investigate the allegations.
"This (union) is our key, almost to say, 'Hey, we don't feel safe coming into work. We don't feel safe working for you. We feel overwhelmed, we feel stressed and uncomfortable,'" Starbucks shift manager Jaclyn Herndon said. "We don't want to feel that way anymore, and I feel that having a contract in place will help secure that for us."
The CDC continues to recommend masking on public transportation vehicles while feeling ill or if you have been in suspected contact of COVID-19.
Both lanes of Albert Avenue will be closed between Abbot Road and M.A.C. Avenue to make room for the space.
Those residing in Precincts 1, 5 and 17 of East Lansing are eligible to vote as members of the Lansing School District to approve a budget to enhance schools around the district.
“Would this spur other plots that people were thinking about previously?” former member of the National Security Council Javed Ali said. “Again, nobody knows the answer to that, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it did because now you’ve got another anti-government grievance to latch on to.”
All of the proceeds from the fundraiser will go to support the women and children of Ukraine. Orders can be placed on the bakery’s website and can be picked up on April 23.
“Seeing a Black woman has the opportunity to be in such a position with such impact and power that affects American society, in the justice system,” Social relations and policy junior Safiya Webster said. “It just gave me a sense of encouragement. That I can be, I will be able to be a judge, and I will be able to make an impact.”
Whitmer is using the governor’s executive authority to seek intervention from the Michigan Supreme Court, rather than starting at the lower courts and moving up. This is the first time in her term as governor that Whitmer is using this power.
Within the next year, Valkyrie Movers founder and owner Jacquelynn Biggs said she intends to use her moving company to help survivors of domestic violence get out of abusive households, free-of-charge.
BWL began collecting a 5% franchise fee from East Lansing customers in 2017 and collects around $1.4 million a year from East Lansing residents from this fee.
Students looking to learn about cannabis are unable to participate in a related degree or certificate program at Michigan State University.
According to Civic Alerts in East Lansing, the face mask requirement was previously set to drop on March 14 in most East Lansing buildings, before the repeal was pushed back to April 5.