LSSM Staff to Welcome Operation Good Cheer Gifts Arrival by Truck
Good Cheer this year will benefit 4,535 children in foster care, residential treatment, and group homes sponsored by 40 private child and family social service agencies.
Featured Stories
During the Holidays Be Aware of Toy Recalls
Playskool Voluntarily Recalls Toy Tool Benches after the Death of Two Toddlers
An Effort to Recall Lansing’s Mayor Virgil Bernero Falls Short
LANSING, MI – The campaign to unseat the current Mayor Virgil Bernero of Lansing was not successful.
22 Year Old Needs A Kidney Transplant
LANSING, MI –Tolliver ‘Mike’ Bragg is a 22-year old Lansing native. He’s a 2003 graduate of Sexton High school…known by family and friends as an outgoing, affable and respectful young man.
Avoid Holiday Hazards Safety Tips for Holiday Decorations
LANSING, MI — After the last pieces of Thanksgiving turkey is wrapped and placed in the refrigerator, most families begin to turn their attention to Christmas.
Mixing It Up in Michigan
Six hundred seventh- and eighth-graders call Lansing, Michigan’s Waverly Middle School home.
Housing Ingham: The 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness
The Greater Lansing Homeless Resolution Network is working to end homelessness.
Family of World War II Veteran Receives Recognition After 60 years
LANSING, MI — When Terry Simpson and his sister started to inquire about her father’s, WWII Veteran Lee E. Simpson’s, involvement in WWII, they realized that he was more than just a service man who fought for his country and received no recognition for it.
We Remember: Emily Perez – First Female Former West Point Cadet to Die in Iraq
We Remember: Emily Perez – First Female West Point Cadet to Die in Iraq
Olympics 2008 Unreal For Most of China
China is rushing to get ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics. But for millions of Chinese in the interior of the country, far away from Beijing and the other cities on the east coast, the Olympics will have little relevance to their lives. Changsha in Hunan province is the birthplace of Mao’s revolution but as NAM contributor Rian Dundon finds out, the Olympics seem very distant from Changsha.
CHANGSHA, Hunan – Mao launched his revolution from Changsha, but from this provincial capital of 2 million the Olympics seem very distant. Beijing and other cities are frenziedly transforming themselves into showcase cities for the 2008 Olympics, but in China’s interior, where 60 percent of the population lives, the Olympics are just something you watch on television.
Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Olympics is on Friday, August 8, 2008
The Closing Ceremony is on Sunday, August 24, 2008