Lansing State Journal online recounts Saturday morning crime reports in the city

by Wes Thorp July 31, 2011

If you were in the downtown area early yesterday morning and thought you heard gunshots, you may have.  Check this Lansing State Journal rundown of crime reports from yesterday morning.  These included several reports from the downtown area and other parts of the city. Also check reports of thefts from two medical marijuana dispensaries and [...]

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Here’s the Lansing City Council info packet for the August 1 meeting

by Wes Thorp July 31, 2011

Lansing (MI) City Council info packet for Monday’s August 1 meeting(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Here’s the Lansing City Council info packet for July 25 meeting

by Wes Thorp July 25, 2011

Lansing (MI) City Council info packet for Monday’s July 25 meeting(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Here’s the Lansing City Council info packet for July 18 meeting

by Wes Thorp July 18, 2011

Here’s the info packet for the Lansing City Council meeting for Monday, July 18: Lansing (MI) City Council info packet for Monday’s July 18 meeting(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Is Lansing’s southside “Ingham Park” being left to grow wild?

by Wes Thorp July 7, 2011

In a south side residential neighborhood–Lewton Rich–and about a half a block from Dwight Rich School, Lansing’s Ingham Park has been growing wild.  It’s in need of a cut in an area that’s struggling to retain its status as a family-friendly place to live.  Here’s a quick look taken with a jiggly Flip video camera [...]

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Lansing City Pulse story details “latest and not the greatest” news about the Lansing State Journal

by Wes Thorp July 7, 2011

Getting solid, consistent coverage of local news in Lansing and the rest of mid-Michigan seems to be an almost impossible challenge.  Some of the news gaps can be filled with a variety of sources, including the weekly Lansing City Pulse. This week, the City Pulse has a good story about the status of the area’s [...]

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Here’s the Lansing City Council info packet for Thursday, July 7 meeting at 1:30 p.m.

by Wes Thorp July 2, 2011

Check the different day and time for the Lansing City Council meeting this week. Here’s the info packet for the meeting: Lansing (MI) City Council info packet for Thursday, July 7 meeting at 1:30 p.m.(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); [...]

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Lansing residents and businesses request moratorium extension on medical marijuana

by Wes Thorp June 25, 2011

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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Here’s the Lansing City Council info packet for the June 27 meeting

by Wes Thorp June 25, 2011

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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Southwest Lansing neighborhood leader Dr. Melissa Quon Huber talks about marijauna ordinance

by Wes Thorp June 24, 2011

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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