Fumiko Sakashita is on her own. Like many other international students at MSU, Sakashita, an American studies doctoral student, looked forward to being a teaching assistant to help pay for continuing her education. However, in light of the recent budget cuts at MSU, her goal seems less likely to pan out.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said during her eighth and final State of the State address Wednesday she will reinstate the Michigan Promise Scholarship in her budget proposal for the 2010-11 fiscal year. In her speech at the Capitol in Lansing, the governor said she will fund the scholarship, restructuring it to keep graduates in Michigan. However, she did not reveal how she plans to fund it.
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.
One week after proposing about $450 million in savings by cutting spending on state employees, term-limited Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will deliver annual speech tonight at 7 p.m.
Republican candidate Rick Snyder leads all candidates with $3.3 million raised, but $2.6 million of that came from his own pocket. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox trails Snyder with $1.83 million, while the only announced Democratic candidate, state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem Township, has raised $36,245.
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.
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 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.
All Secretary of State offices will be closed in observance of President’s Day on Feb. 15. Driver’s licenses and plates set to expire on Feb. 15 can be renewed the following day without penalty.
Michigan would receive $1.2 billion in new funding for Pell Grants helping more than 317,600 Michigan students afford college, as part of President Barack Obama proposed budget revealed Monday.
East Lansing police arrested a man Saturday morning for urinating in public, only to discover he is a fugitive from Mississippi convicted of shooting an Iraq war veteran several times during a robbery.
The North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO, is hosting its 27th annual Pow Wow of Love Feb. 13-14 at Jenison Field House.
La Casa, an MSU student group, will be holding a fundraiser all day Friday at Bennigan’s Grill & Tavern, 3950 E. Grand River Ave., in Howell.
Detroit City Clerk Janice Winfrey plans to announce her candidacy for Michigan Secretary of State today.
MSU Students Today Leaders Forever, or STLF, will be holding its first Pay-It-Forward tour informational meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the North Case Hall study lounge.
More than a dozen people were crowded in an octagonal room stuffy with the smell of paint fumes Saturday at Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing.
The East Lansing City Council will decide whether to move taxi stands from M.A.C. Avenue back to their original Albert Avenue location during its 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
Ten questions could equal big bucks for the city of East Lansing. City officials and a student group are urging the MSU community to fill out the 2010 U.S. Census, which will be 10 questions long instead of the 53 questions from the last census in 2000.
In the wake of the Dec. 25, 2009 airplane bombing attempt near Detroit, the federal government has altered the way it screens and protects airline passengers, but students should not expect longer waits at security checkpoints.
Leo Wales, 20, was sentenced in November 2009 to 80 years in prison for robbing and shooting a man seven times in Mississippi. He was arrested Saturday for urinating in public near Quality Dairy, 1109 E. Grand River Ave.