Revitalizing REO Town

The new Board of Water & Light cogeneration power plant and headquarters is slated to be complete July 1, 2013.
 
By Belinda Thurston
 
More than 30 people attended a public information meeting to learn about this year’s road and sidewalk construction work along Washington Avenue in the REO Town section of Lansing.

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Movie Review: Inspiring Drama Brings History to Life

Director Brian Helgeland had to prove that he had what it took to make a great movie about baseball great Jackie Robinson.  
 
 
By Samantha Ofole-Prince
 
For director Brian Helgeland, taking on the task of writing and directing a movie about baseball hero Jackie Robinson was no easy chore.

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Getting ahead on spring garden to-do list

By Sean Conway, 
Tribune Media Services
 
After a slow start, spring is now coming on like a freight train. Every day new plants are pushing up out of the ground in my garden, tree buds are swelling and the race toward a leafy-green landscape has begun.

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May is American Stroke Month: Can You Spot a Stroke?

BAY CITY, MI – “I didn’t know anything was wrong with me,” stated Kelly Reinhardt, 39, of Bay City. “My daughter noticed I was acting strange and I was confused, but I didn’t realize it.”

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A-bomb survivors tell stories of love, loss, migration

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Nearly 70 years after the United States bombed Japan in 1945, Michigan State University has acquired the world’s largest collection ofinterviews with bomb survivors living in North and South America.

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State’s Nonprofits- an Economic Engine

By Rick Garcia
 
Years ago while working as a nonprofit executive in Chicago, one of my Board members who was the CEO of a global pharmaceutical corporation said that anyone who can passionately work at a nonprofit in a demanding environment delivering quality service while making a nickel dance before spending – can manage my business anytime.
 

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Your Other 8 Hours: Job interview? Avoid these 6 psychological ‘leaks’

By Robert Pagliarini, 
Tribune Media Services
 
Chances are, you are woefully unprepared for that upcoming interview and you don’t even know it. Talking points rehearsed? Check. Company and interviewer researched? Of course. Answers to tough questions practiced? You bet. Psychological tells analyzed? Uh, come again? Without knowing it, you communicate your deep psychological beliefs, attitudes and weaknesses every time you open your mouth. I’ve interviewed people who looked stellar on paper, but who exposed their hidden tendencies, issues and mental roadblocks as soon as they spoke.

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BODY OF CHANGE:   Sugar: The Unsweet Truth

By Walter Crockett, Jr.
 
Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Cancer, High Blood Pressure, Heart Disease and many other aliments are griping America. The question many ask is why?

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