The MSU Power Plant began burning natural gas instead of coal last week after prices for the fuel remained lower than university officials expected. Bob Ellerhorst, director of utility services at the power plant, said the university rarely burns gas as an economic choice.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light will restart the process of approving a 2.5 percent rate increase after a paperwork mistake, the utility’s board of commissioners decided Tuesday. The board of commissioners held a public hearing to discuss the proposed rate hike Monday, but confusion over whether the company filed necessary paperwork 45 days before the session led to the scheduling of another public hearing on March 18.
After Libby Woodbury signed the lease in April to a new building for her business, Lite-R-Side Catering, 1331 E. Grand River Ave., everything went smoothly for about a month. Then, in May, it seemed like the world fell on the shoulders of the already emotionally strained Woodbury.
State Sen. Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, officially established his campaign to run for governor Monday. George, who represents Michigan’s 20th district, was elected to the state Senate in 2002 after serving a term with the state House of Representatives.
Incidents of whooping cough in Michigan more than doubled during the second half of 2008. There were 210 reported cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, from July through December, up from 92 cases in the first half of the year.
Its ideal location on Michigan Avenue between Grand River and Harrison avenues makes it a popular spot for students, but the quiet, old-style neighborhood of Louis Street and Michigan Avenue will have a new look in coming years.
If Jim Caudy has any reason to be positive about the potential he could lose his job, it’s that he’s already started weighing his options. “I’ll probably be laid off fairly soon,” said Caudy, an MSU alumnus and electrician in General Motors Corp.’s Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant.
Recognizing facial expressions, posture, speech patterns and interacting with others are some things most people do every day without even thinking. But for a person with autism, these everyday actions are incredibly frustrating, and occasionally impossible.
Monster.com is alerting job hunters of a hack-in that involved the theft of personal information, the Web site announced Friday — raising concerns for widespread identity fraud.
A string of music artists coming to campus continued Monday when the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, announced Death Cab For Cutie will perform April 18 at Breslin Center.
Prenursing sophomore Jen Ung was surprised by the suspicious man who knocked on her door Wednesday afternoon in Abbot Hall asking for donations to his church. “He had one tooth and just looked really sketchy,” Ung said. “He gave this whole speech about his church that he was raising money for. … It kind of sounded like a scam.”
Although information technology jobs have become synonymous with outsourcing, MSU and IBM reversed that trend two weeks ago when the computer company announced an agreement to establish a programming center on campus.
Changing the name of his coffee franchise from a potentially offensive moniker to one simply referring to the big “B” on the shop’s paper cups wasn’t a problem for Biggby Coffee founder and CEO Bob Fish.
The trial for the man charged with the assault of a female student last fall begins today at the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, 313 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
The long march toward updating a set of bylaws that could change the structure of Academic Governance continued last week as Faculty Council began sifting through related documents.
With more than $100,000 left over from last semester’s budget, the MSU Residence Halls Association hopes to present more concerts and improve existing programs. The surplus, which is not uncommon, was due to some projects falling through, RHA President Mark Dobson said.
When three college students gathered Thursday outside the office of Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., they were hoping to speak with Levin about his support of Israel. Instead, they were arrested.
Dozens of pages with hastily scribbled notes are crammed into a leather-covered binder on a table in Nancy Cotter’s house. Inside are records of every phone call, every inquiry, every plea she has made to answer the question that has devastated her for more than a year: How did her daughter, Rylan, die on Jan. 7, 2008?
Two recent studies by MSU researches could advance the biofuels industry. Chemical engineering and materials science professor Bruce Dale and his team of researchers found evidence against previous arguments that producing biofuels creates more greenhouse gas than it offsets.
By working with community groups and cracking down on traffic violations, MSU police earned the 2008 Excellence in Traffic Safety Award from the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police, or MACP.