Lansing - Among the floating holiday tunes, a spectacle of lights housed blue, skating bears, pink ice fishing penguins and golden llamas. Potter Park & Zoo, 1301 S.
State lawmakers are working to put pressure on prostitutes, pimps and underage solicitors.If lawmakers get their way, those who solicit sex from minors will be charged with felonies, punishable by up to four years in prison.
Lansing - Among the floating holiday tunes, a spectacle of lights housed blue, skating bears, pink ice fishing penguins and golden llamas.Potter Park & Zoo, 1301 S.
Keeping up with the Joneses might take on a different meaning in Lansing.The Cohousing Development Co. purchased 23.8 acres at 3721 Aurelius Road in Lansing, which will be made into Meadowood Cohousing, the first cohousing neighborhood in Lansing.
Lansing - Lansing Community College is making it easier for members of the Michigan National Guard to complete college degrees. The college, 500 N.
Okemos - Bill and Michelle Haun might have thought they were going crazy. The couple own Crazy Horse Indian Jewelry Co., located in Meridian Mall, 1982 W.
Some state lawmakers are trying to make it harder for underage residents to purchase alcohol or tobacco products.In a plan by state Sen.
Sigma Chi fraternity members will keep and maintain their chapter house with support from the alumni of the chapter’s board.The rental license at the fraternity house, 729 E.
About 200 parents, students and legislators joined forces outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to protest the defunding of 19 health care clinics statewide.The clinics fell victim to state budget cuts earlier this month that reduced spending by more than $500 million in the wake of declining state revenue.The spending reductions will eliminate 75 percent of the money for the clinics, 14 of which are located on school grounds, protesters said.“The idea was to apply some pressure and let folks know at the Capitol that these are needed programs,” said Debbie De Leon, a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners.
A bill that would decrease state funding to Planned Parenthood is awaiting approval from the House Committee on Family and Children Services.
State Rep. Virg Bernero will host a town hall meeting in Lansing on Thursday to allow residents to talk with experts on terrorism and bioterrorism.Representatives from the military, U.S.
The holiday spirit of giving might have overtaken the Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund.Gov.
Six women from Michigan battled the arctic cold to make a 150-mile trek across the North Pole in April.On Tuesday, those same women were honored with a luncheon and a plaque in a place a little warmer - the state Capitol.
The future of bicycle and pedestrian traffic on campus and throughout the city will be changing in the coming years. A project combining the efforts of MSU’s Department of Campus Park and Planning and the city of East Lansing will evaluate how to extend the Lansing River Trail through the MSU campus and connect it to Meridian Township and East Lansing’s bike and hike trail system. The group of MSU staff, faculty and students, East Lansing and Meridian Township officials, area residents, the Michigan Department of Transportation, Rail to Trails and Ingham County Parks representatives began working on the project in earnest in July and came up with two different possible master plans.
The war on terrorism hasn’t stopped some people from tapping the Rockies.The week ending Sept.
State gas prices have reached a new two-year low Monday, said Jim Rink, AAA Michigan’s spokesman.The average statewide price for self-serve unleaded fuel is $1.14 per gallon.
In October, the East Lansing city limits grew and the Meridian Township boundary lines shrank, but one issue remains unsettled in some minds - whether proper treatment was given to the one resident of the newly annexed property.Gerry Mannausa, co-owner of the 66-acre parcel of land known as Four Winds Golf Course, 5800 Park Lake Road, said unfair tactics were used by the township toward his nephew, Robert Mannausa, to determine if he was a legal resident of the property.Meridian Township sued Robert Mannausa and subpoenaed for several documents that Gerry Mannausa, who also served as his nephew’s lawyer, feels were unnecessary in the case.Some of these items included his draft card, health insurance card and policy, certificate of car insurance, credit card statements and cell phone bills for the previous five months.“By naming him as a party for this lawsuit, they were trying to get an injuncture to the election in November,” Gerry Mannausa said.
Lansing - A 74-foot white spruce forced traffic away from Michigan Avenue in front of Oldsmobile Park for more than two hours Wednesday night.
The holiday season usually means a surge in greeting-card sales and more demands on postal services, and this year should be no different. Despite anthrax scares and a sluggish economy, retail shops are reporting sales have not slowed. A recent poll conducted by the U.S.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, along with Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., began the Intelligent Transportation Systems Caucus in hopes of best using new transportation technologies.Rogers said the caucus will work toward applying high technology to make the nation’s airports, highways, railroads and transit systems safe, secure and efficient.“We will have applied technology to automobiles in the future that will allow us to be less oil dependent and have cleaner engines,” he said.