Leslie Little doesn’t smoke and is too young to go to the bar.Most of the places the pre-vet freshman visits don’t allow smoking, so where she and her friends spend their weekend usually doesn’t involve a question of where there will be less smoke.“I prefer if (a place) is non-smoking, being a nonsmoker,” she said.
In the next step toward welfare reform, recipients could be required to work 40-hour weeks or receive no benefits, starting today.“Michigan is one of the first states to take welfare head-on as an issue,” said Matt Resch, spokesman for Gov.
While construction on the City Center project is wrapping up on M.A.C. Avenue, Albert Avenue will be closed near the Marriott Hotel at University Place, 300 M.A.C Ave for the week.Two cranes are being placed in the area between M.A.C.
Ann Arbor - Ronald Cruz has been sleeping in Ann Arbor churches since Friday. The University of California, Berkeley education graduate student flew into Michigan to attend the Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement at the University of Michigan this weekend. “The movement is very young,” Cruz said.
Two Lansing youths died in a car accident Saturday night when the Oldsmobile Cutlass they were riding in collided with a Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus. Jared Heintzelman,17, and Anthony Bermudez,12, were killed on the corner of Shiawasee and Larch streets at 10:04 p.m., Lansing police officer Lt.
Lansing - The Lansing Community College Board of Trustees finalized its application Friday to place a new training facility in Delta Township. The $6.9 million Michigan Technical Education Center and $16.7 million training center will train workers for General Motors Corp., its suppliers and other high-tech manufacturers.
In a unique contract among patient advocate groups, employers and insurance companies, a coalition agreed Wednesday to cover routine patient costs associated with cancer clinical trials. Clinical trials are experiments and studies involving people that test new cancer drugs and study the effectiveness of existing treatments.
Lansing - Two weeks ago, Lansing resident John Kanillopoolos didn’t have any extra trash bags to lend to his friend, but now he has more than enough money to buy some extras. Kanillopoolos was the latest winner of the Lansing Recycler of the Week contest, a program started two years ago by the operations and maintenance division of the city’s Public Service Department. Winners have an option of choosing a $100 cash prize or 75 green city trash bags, worth $125.
Officials from around the United States will be gathering next week with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators in Washington to discuss the future of government-issued ID cards.The issuing of driver’s licenses and state IDs has been under the microscope since the Sept.
An affirmative action group will be hosting a conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor today, Saturday and Sunday. The U-M chapter of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary will be holding its Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement to discuss tactics. “The central goals are fixing the affirmative action issue, the fight for real integration and social equality,” BAMN member Agnes Aleobua said.
Students from 10 Michigan campuses gathered in Lansing together during the weekend to discuss anti-Semitism, Israel’s history and upcoming elections.
Term limits are driving Gov. John Engler out of office - along with many other Republicans.In late January, Engler accepted the resignations of State Police Director Col.
On Robert Zeeb’s farm in Bath Township, there are the usual fields and barns, but throughout the years the property has become more than a place for crops to grow.
Lansing - A sweeping package of legislation designed to thwart terrorism in Michigan easily cleared the state Senate Wednesday, with senators evoking the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to rally broad support. “September 11th was a wake-up call for everyone,” said Sen.
Unlike other students, Jason VanderLaan won’t be spending his spring break with drinks with umbrellas - he’ll be “just working.”The finance junior knows a few people partaking in traditional student spring breaks in less than a month, but, in his opinion, this spring break will be just a normal one.“I don’t really think it’s that big of a thing,” he said.For airlines and travel agents, the idea of normalcy sounds pretty good.After the Sept.
LCC to hold seminar on divorce issues The Women’s Resource Center of Lansing Community College is holding a free workshop on the legal aspects of divorce from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Lansing - A group of more than 150 shivering junior high students gathered outside the Capitol on Wednesday to let legislators know what Michigan really needs - a state fossil. Students carried pro-mastodon signs and held a huge drawing of a mastodon behind a podium set up on the Capitol steps.
Cassie Kraft loves the taste of Mountain Dew and drinks about two 20-ounce bottles of it every day. Although her parents didn’t always keep soda pop in the house when she was young, she’s still managed to drink it her entire life.“I’m not scared about the health risks of drinking pop, but in elementary schools I don’t think pop should be sold,” the studio arts sophomore said.Health officials rallied Wednesday to support a bill that prohibits the sale of soda pop in Michigan elementary and middle schools and limits its sale in high schools.State Rep.
After operating for more than 30 days, General Motors Corp. is spreading the word to Lansing residents about the implications of a modification to its Craft Centre.The modification to the plant, 2801 W.
Although the role of women has changed in the last 100 years, some women say it will continue changing - and they’re going to change with it.Attorney General Jennifer Granholm will talk about the role of women in law today at a presentation sponsored by Cooley Law School’s Women’s Law Alliance.Natalie Alane, a third-year Cooley student, said Granholm is an important figure in Michigan, and is excited that she will be making an appearance to help women’s image in law.“I think women influence things in different ways,” said Alane, the alliance’s president.