Accident Fund headquarters
The good
The new Accident Fund headquarters-it’s amazing what some vision, millions of dollars and few tax breaks can do.
Occupy Lansing and the city officials who supported it rather than busting heads
An informed electorate which passed a much needed millage for police, fire and transportation needs
The Armory project by developer Pat Gillespie-great reuse of former military space (whatever happened to the plans for the South Washington Armory?)
Lansing City Pulse and New Citizen’s Press both celebrating 10 years of alternative journalism
The Eli Broad Museum holds plenty of promise for a reinvigorated arts community in Lansing. Let’s not forget the rest of us
The Ingham County Land Bank
The Capital Area District Library
Old Town and the nearby restoration of the School for the Blind. It’s a gem
Board of Water and Light investment in REO Town (I’ll ignore the bigger issue of clean coal)
An Olympic hopeful from Dewitt Michigan
General Motors and its UAW workers continuing to turn out the best cars in the U.S.
The bad
A feuding Lansing City Council
Loss of two key city officials: Economic Development Director Robert Tresize and Chief of Staff and utility infielder Jerry Ambrose
The doctors, lawyers, lobbyists and businesses who will eat up the Snyder tax breaks while continuing to raise their rates
Lansing schools-it’s either this year or never
Assault on the working and middle class by the henchmen now in state government
Closing of the East Lansing Barnes & Noble, L&L groceries and the scores of mom and pop stores across the city leaving ugly, boarded up buildings. East Lansing City Centre is just pitiful. MSU needs to get into that arena and soon
Pie in the sky ideas like an aerotropolis’ over neighborhoods and an arts and performance center in downtown Lansing
One more year of looking at the Oliver Towers. How long has it been now?
Hooligans and criminals in downtown Lansing
Higher taxes for retirees and the middle class
And the ug
A proposal to sell the old Waverly golf course for a cemetery. Hopefully that idea will be dead on arrival
Political campaigns with winners and losers based on who has the largest sack of gold
Road construction this coming year
The Lansing City Market (how it looks, not what it does, especially in contrast to its new neighbor across the river)
Corporate media which continues to shill for business, anti-tax trade groups and the war economy
