At a "listening session" last night, numerous citizens spoke of their hopes for the next CATA leader, but also named problems with bus route design, technology, services for persons with disabilities, transparency, and accountability.
Seen the solar-energy-generating carports being installed in various MSU parking lots? Ian Hoopingarner provides the backstory and explains who is profiting in what way.
An unusual East Lansing ordinance, passed in 2014 under then-Mayor Nathan Triplett, is generating public art from big new real estate redevelopment projects. ELi's Jessy Gregg reports.
A City Council member running for re-election says "an oversight" caused her to not disclose a tenant-landlord relationship with a developer of the Center City District project.
Postcards, emails, and phone calls are still coming in, calling on the City of East Lansing to change its position on a local farmers' market vendor suing the City over religious freedom. But the City is determined to defend its civil rights policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Last week the City of East Lansing made its first legal moves in the federal district court case filed last May by Farmer's Market Vendor Country Mill. ELi's Ann Nichols tells you what was filed, and what it means.
What's the latest on the Center City District and Park District redevelopment projects? And what is the activity at the corner across from MSU all about?
Will the proposed property tax reduction really offset the cost of the proposed income tax for East Lansing homeowners? A reader asked, and ELi's Jessy Gregg brings the answer.
With more and more East Lansing property owners vocally upset about BWL's tree-cutting program, City government interest in the matter appears to be increasing.
