October 1-7 celebrates Right to Read Week in Michigan, a time dedicated to promoting intellectual freedom and advocating against book bans in schools and libraries across the state.
On Oct. 4, MSU students rallied alongside Michigan legislators for the introduction of the Hunger Free Campus Bill into the Michigan House.
ASMSU, in collaboration with MSU Vote, a campus committee focused on increasing student voter turnout, hosted a forum for the East Lansing city council candidates on Tuesday night for students to learn more about their city officials.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be testing its Wireless Emergency Alerts and Emergency Alert System today at 2:20 p.m. The WEA alert will be broadcast across all mobile cell phones across the country, and will sound a tone and vibration "similar to when your phone receives an Amber Alert." Scheduled simultaneously, the EAS portion of the test will last one minute on televisions and radios.
Broadening the range of the city's representatives, the City of East Lansing is adding the Mayor’s Youth Commission to their city government this coming November.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has allocated $12.6 million to advance community violence prevention.
Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow (D- Royal Oak) spoke to Planned Parenthood Generation Action MSU, or PPGA, Wednesday night about information and advocacy work surrounding the Reproductive Health Act.
Michigan's recent offer to residents for free water well testing ran out of funding a week after the announcement.
AG Dana Nessel and 33 other attorneys general have recommended a four step plan to the FDA for e-cigarette regulation to protect young people from nicotine addiction.
MSU economics professor Ronald Fisher works to retain young people in Michigan as a newly appointed member of the Growing Michigan Together Council.
In her ‘What’s Next’ address last week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer said one of her top legislative priorities is the passage of the Reproductive Health Act. The bill, if passed, would expand access to abortion care across Michigan.
Michigan democratic leaders, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, released statements Monday night in response to the news of Mel Tucker’s suspension and Title IX Investigation. In the report, she asks for answers from Michigan State about the timeline of the investigation.
Michigan State University Health Sciences will partner with Henry Ford Health and the Gilbert Family Foundation in a nearly $400 million effort to cure a rare genetic disease and increase access to rehabilitation care in Detroit.
Days after a shooting in Jacksonville, Florida and hours after a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Michigan State Board of Education president Pamela Pugh tweeted calling gun violence a public health crisis and calling for urgent reform.
International and interstate immigration has fallen and many young Michigan residents are leaving.
On Friday, the United States Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan 6-3, deeming the plan unconstitutional. Neuroscience sophomore LaMonica Reeves said this decision makes it exceedingly challenging for students of color pay for college.
SB 40, sponsored by Sen. Sarah Anthony, D-Lansing, would prohibit discrimination based on hair, particularly protective or textured hairstyles often worn by Black people. The bill amends the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include hairstyles as an aspect of racial identity that cannot be discriminated against in the workplace.
The East Lansing City Council passed four resolutions recognizing the impact of the Feb. 13 mass shooting on MSU campus. The resolutions also honored first responders, mental health professionals and city staff for their efforts during and after the shooting.
Many homeless individuals in Greater Lansing have felt unsupported by the city programs that are supposed to protect them from harmful situations, such as poor housing and cycling through hotels and homeless shelters instead of finding long-term housing in their own communities.
In an investigation update of the Feb. 13 shooting on MSU's campus, the Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety said many timestamps were learned throughout the course of the investigation and were unknown by law enforcement the night of the shooting.