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Low-Income Residents Can Take Advantage of Millions in Tax Incentives;
City Seeks Volunteer Finance Professionals to Help with Program

Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides will join Jill Rhode, Lansing City Treasurer; Douglas Stites, Capital Area Michigan Works! Chief Executive Officer; Susan Cocciarelli, Specialist of the Center for Urban Affairs at Michigan State University; and David Wiener, Mayoral Executive Assistant, in announcing plans to coordinate a community-wide low-income tax assistance program beginning at 4 p.m. today, Tuesday, February 18 in the lobby of Lansing City Hall, located at 124 W. Michigan Ave. in downtown Lansing.

By Jonathan Livingston

Over the past 30 years, a good deal of debate has occurred concerning whether our current public school system can educate our children and provide them with the skills needed to be productive citizens. Upon closer look at the state of education as it relates to Black children, we find that over 45% of minority males in this country drop out of high school.

When we met you told me stories of your ex,
How you were taken for granted, alienated, disrespected,
Mistreated, to the end never cherished.
I shook my head and as a man wished I could’ve shouldered the blame,
And with time show you love, take away the pain.
 

By Jonathan Livingston
   
“…And what of love”, wrote the poet Kahlil Gibran.  Before reading this passage from The Prophet as a young boy, I never thought of love and what it meant to love and be loved.  I was given and shown love by my family and my community, but I never had experienced the love between a man and a woman.

By Tony Jones
Special to The New Citizen Press

On Friday, Feb. 28, East Lansing gets to enjoy the rising surge of message music as the pioneering Hopeville Tour – United As One presentation brings the biggest gospel music tour in history to the Breslin Center, offering the perfect occasion for families to celebrate Black History Month together.

By Bro. Ishmael Muhammad

As the leadership of America seems determined to start a war with Iraq. President Bush has gone to great lengths to state his position as to why war with Iraq is necessary and why Saddam Hussein must be removed from power.

By Nadia Sellers

(Auburn Hills)—The Detroit Pistons continue to be one of the more enigmatic stories of this NBA season…a team without a superstar, without great size or speed, but one which just keeps piling up the victories.

In a recent article written in ‘‘Campaign Finance Talk,”  which is a non partisan and non profit organization, State Senator Schwarz was asked why he was running for governor?