Rian Jackson is a journalism major with a creative writing minor at Michigan State University. Her journalistic interests include writing and reporting, especially about the arts. She hopes to graduate in May of 2021.
In a meeting on March 11, Lansing’s City Council approved an ordinance to regulate dockless electric scooters and set a date for the public hearing regarding the Red Cedar project.
The Midwest was afflicted by the polar vortex Jan. 29-31. Wind chills broke records as they ranged from 20 to 60 degrees below zero in some areas. There is no official explanation for this phenomenon. However, one popular theory links it to the warming of the Arctic and Antarctic.
A grant from the National Parks Service is helping the City of Lansing and the Historical Society of Greater Lansing create a multi-dimensional story about the effcts of building the I-496 freeway through an African-American Lansing neighborhood.
“Hey hey, ho ho, gender bias has got to go!” chanted a crowd of more than 100 protestors at the January 20 Lansing Women’s March. The protestors met at the MSU Union on January 20 and braved single-digit temperatures. Flanked by Michigan State University Police, the protestors marched from the Union to the Hannah Administration Building. Demonstrators were marching in support of many causes, among them women’s reproductive rights, workplace equality and equal pay, advocacy for victims of sexual assault and LGBTQ+ rights. They were also marching to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and the proposed border wall.