Song, dance and laughter filled the streets of East Lansing on Sunday afternoon as members from the MSU and Lansing Jewish communities carried a freshly scribed Sefer Torah Scroll from the Union to its new home at the Chabad of Lansing/MSU, 540 Elizabeth St. — a monumental event for the Jewish community.
For MSU Bikes Service Center manager Tim Potter, his commute to work can be a difficult one if there isn’t a bike lane. Between sharing the road with motorists, who often yell at him for riding on the shoulder, to a couple of close calls with CATA buses, biking without a proper lane isn’t ideal. “Bicyclists do venture out into riding in the road; it’s pretty scary,” Potter said.
On Thursday night, as President Barack Obama officially was accepting his party’s nomination for another term in the White House at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., I was holed up in a hotel lobby three blocks away scrounging for public Wi-Fi to watch the speech — sadly, on C-SPAN, because a student journalist is last on the VIP list for exclusive presidential access. For the past three days, I had been running all over the city covering events that are pivotal to the Democratic Party platform and the President’s re-election efforts, including caucuses targeting a specific demographic of voters and rah-rah gatherings by legislators who have devoted themselves to Obama.
On Thursday, the Community Relations Coalition served MSU Dairy Store ice cream at the Bailey neighborhood for local residents and MSU students.
Although it’s several years from completion, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, could take a big step forward today if the MSU Board of Trustees votes to approve a $55 million budget during their monthly Board of Trustees meeting.
Curtis Audette and Joyce Lalonde are about 45 years apart in age. In terms of experience at a Democratic National Conventio, which they both are attending this week, that’s a huge difference; Audette, a social relations and policy sophomore, is attending his first convention this week in Charlotte, N.C., while Lalonde, an MSU alumna, is attending her seventh convention in about the past 30 years.
In separate opinions, the court also upheld three other ballot proposals: requiring a two-thirds vote in the state Legislature to raise taxes; voter approval for new bridges to Canada; and protecting collective bargaining rights from possible right-to-work legislation.
When Mitt Romney was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, or RNC, in Tampa, Fla., he had his first chance to formally introduce himself to the American people.
It’s official: This summer was hot and dry, and Michigan’s agriculture industry suffered from it. The Department of Agriculture officially designated the entire state of Michigan as a natural disaster area Wednesday, after a summer drought and heat wave.
More than five months after MSU freshman Olivia Pryor died in her dorm room, two men are awaiting a pretrial in Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court for charges connected to the alcohol-related death.
Tampa, Fla. — Although Republican presidential nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could soon become President Romney, Matt Romney always will call him by a different name: Dad.
College students weren’t the only people browsing dancing cat GIFs on Reddit Wednesday afternoon; President Barack Obama also paid a visit to the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet” for a short question-and-answer session.
Because of a high number of nonconforming student rental properties in East Lansing designated for single families, the city staff is working on plans during the next four months to possibly alter the zoning in these areas to find a balance between student-rental housing and owner-occupied housing.
Tension regarding an assault on journalism sophomore Zachary Tennen continues to build as the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, released a statement that the assault likely was not an anti-Semitic hate crime, despite claims from the Tennen family asserting otherwise.
The East Lansing City Council must select a replacement for departing council member Don Power by Sept. 21 following a unanimous vote at a council meeting Tuesday night.
The 2012 presidential election season is the most negative campaign in recent years, with almost three-quarters of news content about President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney being negative, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
From the minute she arrived Sunday morning at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Ingham County delegate at large Linda Lee Tarver has confidently displayed a button pinned to her shirt bearing one clear message: “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.”
Anyone who happened to stop into Meijer, 1350 W. Lake Lansing Road, on Monday night might have thought they stumbled into a party as opposed to a grocery store.
Some of the finishing touches are starting to be put on the residential portion of the St. Anne Luxury Lofts project in downtown East Lansing this week.
Many Spartans have an appreciation for beer, but not as many have actually created their own brews. Since That’s How We Brew, a home-brewing supply store, opened in early August at 3000 Vine St., in Lansing, they can.