U.S. Rep. Tom Barrett (R, MI-07) is running as data centers' local-control defender: two bills introduced August 20, 2026 (H.R. 10118 No Data Center NDAs Act; H.R. 10119 Protecting Local Control of Da...

Half of Lansing is younger than 33.7, but its last municipal election was decided by voters with a median age of 60. Young Lansing can change that on Nov. 3.

63% of the mayor's itemized money comes from outside Lansing. Council money is majority in-city. Mapped by ZIP from state filings.

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...

A measure on the November 3 ballot in Lansing and five other Michigan cities (East Lansing, Kalamazoo, Portage, Battle Creek, and Benton Harbor) would write a 'Citizens' Advisory Healthcare Action Boa...

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

A month after the Lansing City Council voted 7-1 on August 24 to ask the city and the Lansing Police Department to cancel every Flock Safety contract, the cameras are still up. The mayor's office ackn...

A month after the Lansing City Council voted 7-1 on August 24 to ask the city and the Lansing Police Department to cancel every Flock Safety contract, the cameras are still up. The mayor's office ackn...

Mike Rogers, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, spent his campaign promoting data centers, then reversed to back a one-year statewide moratorium in August, three days after The Lever re...

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...

Mike Rogers, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Michigan, spent his campaign promoting data centers, then reversed to back a one-year statewide moratorium in August, three days after The Lever re...

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,...

Lansing's NOVA housing-pod project costs roughly $3.4 million in year one to shelter up to 66 people in transitional pods on a county parking lot (about $51,500/person, though that is capital-loaded; ...

The City of Lansing scored 48 possible sites for its NOVA housing pods (nine cleared the 60-point cost-review bar). The highest-scored site of all 48, and the cheapest to build, was Stabenow Park (95,...

The three companies building and running Lansing's NOVA housing-pod project were each hired without a completed competitive bid: Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries (operator, $952,000/yr) was the sole ...

About a year after Lansing bought 50 modular housing pods ($610,800 spent so far) to shelter people leaving homelessness, an August 18, 2026 community meeting at the Foster Community Center gave resid...

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.

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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-...

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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...

The August 4 ballot asks Lansing voters to authorize selling 325 Riverfront Drive, the city-owned Lansing Shuffle building on dedicated park land, to operator Jonathan Hartzell for an estimated $953,2...

On August 4, 2026, Lansing voters decide whether the city may sell the riverfront Lansing Shuffle building at 325 Riverfront Drive, dedicated park land, to its operator, Jonathan Hartzell. The ballot ...

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...