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I didn't realize actually (the only properties we've ever owned are in East Lansing, so no point of personal comparison for us). Quick web search right now suggests, effective property tax rates: National median: 1.02% Michigan median: 1.2% …
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Lansing releases draft non-motorized transportation plan, seeks public comment: https://mckenna.mysocialpinpoint.com/lansing-non-motorized-transportation-plan 280 pages so I, uh, have not yet read it.
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We are slightly far afield, but I can certainly understand why EL wants to hire two more police officers dedicated to the downtown. Also on my Friday night ride-along, there were three fights in about an hour (Dave's Hot Chicken, outside the 7-11, a…
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We do need to somehow handle this better. Actually did a ride-along with an officer last night. Mentioned that the night before, someone had been throwing rocks at the 7-11. "Why was he throwing rocks?" "Mental health issues. We know this guy,…
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They did also say that the number of mental health related calls has surged over the last five years. They offered no explanation for that fact, though I personally wondered about marijuana. (They did mention one case study of a guy they regularly i…
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Side comment, but I'm talking a class with the East Lansing police and they mentioned that, it is very easy for the police to grab someone behaving in an erratic way (or threatening suicide or something), take them to Sparrow, and then the police fi…
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I gots to tell you though, the longest I ever had to wait in an airport security line was flying out of Traverse City. True story. I have no idea if that was before or after any terminal update! I hope Lansing keeps those little "Welcome to Lansi…
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East Lansing is (other than Chicago) easily the biggest stop on the Blue Water route. You hate to neglect the cities to the east, but I have wondered if even just a Chicago <-> EL run... it would almost certainly be more cost effective for Amt…
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Slightly random here, but I did find it interesting that a concern very briefly expressed at the last East Lansing city council meeting was that, as part of its renovation of Spartan Stadium, MSU would actually build a little restaurant/bar area aro…
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It does feel weird, to me, to have a giant surface parking lot stuck between the two downtowns, feels like the location should be more "built up" than that. (I say that, yet we recently returned from a vacation in downtown Houston... and there are l…
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Mid-Michigan transit plan released: https://www.movingmidmichigan.org/documents Just some things I found interesting. CATA bus ridership in 2024 was 8.4 million rides. Still down from the 2019 number of 10.5 million. COVID minimum was in 2021,…
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Yes, I find myself now against any sort of mandated diversity to the downtown housing stock... though it is ironic that the senior housing on Albert Avenue has helped impel the city council to act on downtown crime, because seniors actually complain…
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It's interesting. It's unclear, but I do fear a little bit shrinking student sections or moving them away from the court so big money can get a closer seat. Guess we'll see. Big college sports is professional sports now.
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How are the homeless generally treated by local authorities, by the way? What I mean is, a couple of weeks ago, I was catching a bus around 8:00 AM by the Five Guys in EL, and noticed a guy sleeping in the "ATM Vestibule" of the Chase Bank right the…
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Maybe you know Chris Arnade. These days, he spends his time walking around the world, just writing about what he sees. He might be most famous for the book "Dignity", where he spent lots of time walking around with the poor in the US, writing about …
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The Dairy Queen in Trowbridge plaza has opened, by the way. "You're not literally going to attach a photo of the inside of a fast food restaurant, are you?" But I am.
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Not written by me this time, but an article in Enjoyer today about the fish ladder: https://enjoyer.com/lansing-fish-ladder-filled-with-heroin-needles/
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CATA announces that the extension of Rt 3 into Delta Township is ending because the millage out there failed, the route will revert back to its previous termination point (which I think was the Lansing Mall): https://www.cata.org/About/News/cata-…
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Flying out yesterday morning.
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Long, long ago I wrote that bitcoin mining centers would gradually move to cold climates, where the "waste heat" wasn't actually waste. This may not be bitcoin mining but, same idea, which is neat.