When Dave Spruit was a high school senior in Grand Rapids, he and his friends were ticketed while skateboarding.As a human resources management senior at MSU, Spruit fears it will happen again.“I’ve worried about that in East Lansing,” the MSU Skateboard Organization member said.
The Capital Area Transportation Authority is moving along the tracks toward its proposed $85 million Lansing to Detroit Passenger Rail System.CATA secured the next step in a needed rail study for the project, which will review all transportation alternatives to the system that would have stops in Lansing, East Lansing, Howell, Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Detroit.
Students and locals may not have been dreaming of a white April, but that’s what they woke up to Tuesday morning. Saginaw resident Scott Seeburger expressed the thoughts many Michigan residents had as they ventured out of their homes to face temperatures between the mid-20s and mid-40s. “I wasn’t anticipating it being this cold,” Seeburger said.
LANSING - MSU students and community members held a rally Tuesday on the steps of the Capitol Building to voice support for legislation that adds sexual orientation as a trait that cannot be discriminated against. The Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay and Transgendered Students, an MSU student group, organized the rally to bring awareness to the issues that face their community and the legal challenges they face in Michigan. Alliance member Jeremy Grzymkowski said his group is supporting a proposed amendment to the state’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act that makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer announced early Tuesday he will not run for re-election in 2002. “I love this city.
LANSING - The state Senate convened Tuesday morning to swear in its two newest members. The two new members happen to be the state’s first Mexican American senator and the sixth female senator, who brings the highest number of women ever in the senate. “I remember taking the oath of office,” said Lt.
LANSING - Lansing officials are slated for a raise in July and then again in mid-2002, unless city council members vote to oppose the increases. If the council doesn’t vote before April 28, Lansing Mayor David Hollister, City Clerk Steve Dougan and Lansing City Council members will see salary increases ranging from 2 percent to 13 percent. Lansing’s Elected Officers Compensation Commission approved the increase in March.
Michigan’s construction workers may feel a bit safer on the shoulders of the state’s roads.A bill proposed by state Sen.
State Sen. David Jaye is supposed to return to session today after spending part of his weekend in a Florida jail for allegedly assaulting his fiancée during the two-week break for Michigan legislators.Jaye, R-Washington Township, denied the charges, but spent Thursday night in jail and was released Friday on a $2,500 bond.
As some parents and students have difficulty saving for college, many look to the Michigan Education Savings Program.
Although Amanda Machovsky has owned a cellular phone since she began college four years ago, she never noticed any of East Lansing’s nine cellular phone towers. Toting her brand-new, pale green cellular phone, Machovsky, an elementary education senior, says the communication tool can be a necessity - or an accessory. “The other one I had was attached to my car,” she said.
Despite a late start to file her tax forms, Blanka Chrominska said she will mail them before today’s midnight deadline.
LANSING - Amy Thompson is a huge Lansing Lugnuts fan, but one of her favorite reasons for visiting Oldsmobile Park is the wide array of foods she can fill up on. “It’s usually food you can’t have at your house,” said Thompson, an eighth-grader at Holt Junior High School, while munching on her giant New York Pretzel. And at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
Michigan state Sen. Dianne Byrum, D-Onondaga, announced the formation of the Michigan Task Force on Election Reform on Friday.
New online information concerning Michigan’s concealed weapons law, which goes into effect July 1, has area students and groups debating how the law will impact the state.The law establishes statewide requirements for people who carry concealed weapons.
State lawmakers announced a plan to assist Michigan residents without health insurance this week.In 1999, 13.5 percent of Michigan’s nonelderly population had no health insurance despite nearly 57 percent holding a full-time job.
MASON - After nearly 15 years, a mother’s persistence may have paid off.Muriel Kirby sat with a box of tissues on her lap Thursday while investigators announced they had arrested the man they believe killed her daughter in 1986.David Phillip Draheim was arraigned in 55th District Court on Thursday for the murder of Jeanette Kirby.Kirby, a 36-year-old state employee from Lansing, was found dead in Riverbend Park in Holt on June 12, 1986.
Several East Lansing teachers gathered Thursday afternoon for something that resembled Christmas coming early - just a little more high-tech than the Christian holiday.As part of a new state program, Michigan teachers are able to sign up to receive new laptops from the state for use in their classrooms and homes.Several East Lansing elementary teachers received their new computers Thursday, along with a training session on how to use them.The teachers all opened their bags at the same time, littering the desk with plastic bags and cardboard.
Rising energy concerns in America may have some oil companies hoping to say “yes” to Michigan.But reactions by Michigan residents and environmentalists to a possible increase in drilling in the Great Lakes have been negative, according to a local poll.
LANSING - With the slogan “Michigan. Great Lakes. Great Times. Not a great distance,” state tourism officials hope to expand Michigan’s $10 billion annual tourism business. The new campaign, launched this week by Travel Michigan - a division of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation - is intended to draw more travelers from surrounding states. “It’s a great ad campaign,” said Nancy Cain, a spokesperson for AAA. “And the timing of it is good, because with higher gas prices, people in the Midwest are going to stay in the Midwest.” The campaign features television, newspaper, radio and Internet advertisements that will be shown in Green Bay, Wis., Indianapolis, Chicago and Cleveland.