http://thelansingblog.com The premier source of Lansing news online. Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:18:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thelansingblog.com/2011/10/16/council-member-carol-wood-derrick-quinney-et-al-ask-too-many-questions-says-lsj-com/ http://thelansingblog.com/2011/10/16/council-member-carol-wood-derrick-quinney-et-al-ask-too-many-questions-says-lsj-com/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:58:02 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=2665 Check-out this editorial from today’s Lansing State Journal that says our city’s problems stem from “nay-saying” by four City Council members, Eric Hewitt, Brian Jeffries, Derrick Quinney and Carol Wood. The newspaper claims that the four have blocked development projects dead in their tracks for their own selfish interests.  They point to the land swap [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2011/07/02/heres-the-lansing-city-council-info-packet-for-thursday-july-7-meeting/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/lansing-residents-and-businesses-request-moratorium-extension-on-medical-marijuana/ http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/lansing-residents-and-businesses-request-moratorium-extension-on-medical-marijuana/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:20:42 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=2604 Lansing’s business and neighborhood leaders are becoming more vocal in their demands to the City Council that it extend the moratorium on new medical marijuana businesses in the city.  Check this story from WLNS.com about a new conference yesterday where these leaders shared their recommendations on how medical marijuana businesses need to be subject to [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/lansing-residents-and-businesses-request-moratorium-extension-on-medical-marijuana/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/heres-the-lansing-city-council-info-packet-for-the-june-27-meeting/ http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/heres-the-lansing-city-council-info-packet-for-the-june-27-meeting/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:37:45 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=2600 Here’s the information packet for Monday night’s meeting of the Lansing City Council meeting.  This includes the agenda with marked items where there is additional material. This is the meeting where the council is expected to pass a new medical marijuana ordinance that would lift the moratorium on the establishment of new marijuana businesses and [...]

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]]> http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/25/heres-the-lansing-city-council-info-packet-for-the-june-27-meeting/feed/ 0 http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/24/southwest-lansing-neighborhood-leader-dr-melissa-quon-huber-talks-about-marijauna-ordinance/ http://thelansingblog.com/2011/06/24/southwest-lansing-neighborhood-leader-dr-melissa-quon-huber-talks-about-marijauna-ordinance/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:57:17 +0000 Wes Thorp http://thelansingblog.com/?p=2598 Lansing’s neighborhoods through their associations have been closely involved in trying to mold the city’s proposed Medical Marijuana Ordinance to make in family-friendly for residential areas and to provide for regulation which protects everybody in the city. In this video, Averill Woods Neighborhood Association President Dr. Melissa Quon-Huber shares the keypoints of changes that neighborhood [...]

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