News For, By and About People
By Robert Pagliarini,
Tribune Media Services
There are few things in life as exhilarating as starting a business in your free time. Your day job may provide you with some satisfaction and energy, but it’s nothing like the shot in the arm you can get when you focus your strengths and skills on starting a business that gives you passion and purpose.
Lansing, MI — November 17, 2010- The Eady family has arrived back home in Lansing, MI. Surviving family members: mother, Aretha Eady, daughter, Sophia and son, Charles, Jr. are doing miraculously better.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The national job market for college graduates should rebound slightly next year as many large corporations end hiring freezes and small, fast-growth companies continue helping reshape the economy, according to Michigan State University’s 2010-11 Recruiting Trends report.
Lansing, MI—In observance of Thanksgiving Day, the Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) will conclude all MSU campus bus service at 11:30PM on Wednesday, November 24, 2010. All other CATA routes and services will conclude at their regular time on Wednesday.
In December, MSU-AAAS’s speaker series “Re-negotiating Meaning in Black Studies Today” will present an event that advances knowledge about an African American holiday, Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday that celebrates family, community, culture and consciousness.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Transforming vacant urban lots into farms and community gardens could provide Detroit residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables.
As city officials ponder proposals for urban farms, a Michigan State University study indicates that a combination of urban farms, community gardens, storage facilities and hoop houses — greenhouses used to extend the growing season – could supply local residents with more than 75 percent of their vegetables and more than 40 percent of their fruits.
During a national week of action concerning wage theft, the Lansing Workers’ Center, continues to empower workers to stand up for their rights. Since opening its doors last Labor Day, the Lansing Workers’ Center and has been talking to workers about wage theft, unemployment claims, and everything in between.
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Earvin “Magic” Johnson, chairman and founder of the Magic Johnson Foundation, poses with April Kelly-Drummond, director of Corporate Diversity for Denny’s, at the12thAnnual Taylor Michael’s Scholarship Program Conference in Los Angeles, hosted by the Magic Johnson Foundation.
Halloween is over and creatives all over the state were using their talent to impress the masses. Now it is time to eat. This Michigan pumpkin was displayed in the Romney Building in Lansing, MI and designed by Maranda Winchester.
Even ghosts and goblins will gobble up pumpkin desserts this fall. Isaac, Ben and Jacob Hammack roll out the pumpkins in preparation for a delicious pumpkin cheesecake and other goodies. Photo by Leah Rolinski
By Wolfgang Puck, Tribune Media Services