At its September 28, 2026 regular session, the Lansing City Council introduced four workforce-housing PILOT tax abatements (Baltic, Carolina, Pacific, and Ventnor Flatz) that Michigan LARA records tie...

All 12 letters of support to council were generated through one paid advocacy platform.

The three Republicans at the top of Michigan's 2026 ballot, Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate, John James for governor, and Tom Barrett in the Lansing-area 7th Congressional District, draw on the same short...

All 12 letters of support to council were generated through one paid advocacy platform.

Recalling a Lansing elected official is almost entirely a state-law process, not a city one. The charter's only recall provision (2-401) defines who is recallable (the mayor, the City Council members,...

After nearly 100 residents spoke against the city's Flock license plate reader cameras and Police Chief Robert Backus argued for about 35 minutes to keep them, the Lansing City Council voted 7-1 on Au...

Ward 1 Council Member Ryan Kost has filed Resolution PEND-4578, up for a vote August 24 as Item 15, asking the city and the Lansing Police Department to terminate every contract with Flock Safety and ...

On August 20, 2026, the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce's political action committee announced its 2026 endorsements: Tom Barrett (U.S. House), Mike Rogers (U.S. Senate), Doug Lloyd (attorney gen...

Federal Election Commission records show Shane Dedrick, the Green Party's nominee in Michigan's 7th Congressional District, was paid $2,237.50 by Perry Johnson for President, a 2024 Republican preside...

Samuel Okner's Evanston, Illinois company owns two apartment complexes half a mile apart in south Lansing. In April 2025 the city declared part of one, College Towne, "unfit for human occupancy"; in A...

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains how we are living through the culmination of forty years of increasing s

Roughly $200M in federal LIHTC flows through LHC's pipeline; three insiders sit at the choke points.

All 12 letters of support to council were generated through one paid advocacy platform.

This issue covers two weeks: board entrenchment at Lansing's Board of Water and Light, the August 10 City Council recap, and who really wrote Mason's data-center support letters.

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On August 11, 2026 the Lansing Board of Water and Light's board of commissioners adopted FY2027 rate increases (residential electric ~2.1%, water 2.39–3.34%, steam 5.51%, effective October 1) in an 8-...

A chronological record of Lansing's August 10 meetings, a 5:30 Committee of the Whole and a 7:00 regular session, both chaired by Vice President Trini Pehlivanoglu with Council President Peter Spadafo...

In June and July 2026 the Mason City Council received six letters supporting a proposed hyperscale data center at 3388 W. Columbia Road. Three of the six signers, Consumers Energy, the Lansing Regiona...

This week: Lansing's untested brownfield subsidy promises, rising sewer charges replacing struck-down taxes, and BWL's per-kilowatt-hour rate gaps.

To redevelop a contaminated lot in Lansing, a developer can have the public pay for the cleanup and collect the property's taxes for years, on a 'but-for' promise that the project could not happen oth...

LANSING, Mich. — The sewer charge on a Lansing utility bill is going up again, a few dollars at a time, for work with no near-term end: keeping raw sewage out of the Grand River. The newest piece, an ...

On page 87 of the Board of Water and Light's proposed 2027 rates, effective October 1, a household using 500 kilowatt-hours a month would pay about 21 cents per kilowatt-hour and the largest industria...

On July 21, 2026, the East Lansing City Council approved a five-year contract for automated 'SafetyStick' parking cameras that mail $42 tickets to the registered owner. On each ticket the vendor, Muni...

Lansing is moving three development tax breaks through its two economic-development authorities this summer: up to $709,650 for a South Cedar Street lot where a Chick-fil-A already opened, a twelve-ye...

On July 24, 2026, the City of Lansing answered a public-records request on its Flock Safety surveillance network. Assistant City Attorney Elizabeth Krochmalny certified under MCL 15.235(5)(b) that no ...

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On July 20, 2026, the Mason City Council voted 5-2 to adopt Resolution 2026-22, non-binding "guiding principles" for how it would spend the tax revenue a proposed hyperscale data center would generate...

Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou

This week: the Board of Water and Light's public record on rates and surplus, the coal ash buried under its newest solar array, and Lansing's data-center moratorium passing 7 to 1.

From 1974 to 1997, the Lansing Board of Water and Light disposed of coal fly ash in a former gravel pit off Lake Lansing Road (the state's 'North Lansing Landfill,' EGLE Part 201 site 33010011). The a...

At the July 13 Lansing City Council meeting, the council passed a 182-day moratorium on new data centers 7 to 1. Council Member Jeremy Garza, who chairs the Development and Planning committee that adv...

Lansing rewrote its zoning code in 2025, and it does not mention data centers. Because the code has no data-center category, whether the public would get a hearing on a proposed data center is not spe...

This week: BWL's October rate increase and the 8% behind its payment talks, the $186 million Michigan paid for union jobs at a non-union battery plant, and UM-Sparrow's move to outsource its housekeep...

Investor-owned utilities shift data center grid upgrade costs to local residential ratepayers.

Lansing and Mason residents organize zoning challenges against gas-burning data center projects.

Bipartisan tax breaks for data centers will cost Michigan's School Aid Fund $11M per facility.