Despite the auto industry's struggles, despite the worries about foreclosures, despite the chaos at the Capitol, downtown Lansing is inching toward the critical mass that marks the rebirth of a city's core. Thanks in no small measure to a cadre of young entrepreneurs, downtown has added dozens of new places to live in just the last couple of years, with exciting projects like the City Club condo tower and the City Market/ballpark proposal still on the horizon. A downtown that had lost some...

Culinary arts, customer service, supply management, technology, design and other vital areas of expertise and programs that have been established across those companies will also be leveraged by the new group, he said. In addition, the company operates dozens of restaurants and retail outlets at airports nationwide and has significant experience in operating gaming venues such as Saratoga Gaming and Raceway in New York and Wheeling Island Racetrack & Gaming Center in West Virginia. In...

One of the reasons for this lack of response is a deliberate and pervasive censorship in the mainstream media, to conceal the full scale of the problem from the general public. However, I suspect that the most important reason has to do with the extreme anti-masculine strand of feminism that has permeated Scandinavia for decades. The standard explanation in my country for this gender gap in voting patterns is that men are more xenophobic and selfish than women, who are more open-minded and...

For years, he put up with the thousands of dollars of vandalism, the relentless garbage-dumping, the all-hours gunfire and poaching, not to mention the dangers created by irresponsible hunters who didn't seem to care that the Williamson family's homes might be in the line of fire. And state wildlife officials have reason for concern, because he's nowhere close to being the only landowner feeling that way. It has long been a prime area for hunters, and even more so for anglers, since Mud...

Land use in its Wyoming range is primarily agricultural, and the service doesn't view that as a long-term threat to existing Preble's populations. Conservation groups, on the other hand, say the mouse has drawn attention to the need for protecting open space and streamside habitats. She added that the mouse matter has delayed water storage projects at a time when farms are drying up throughout northern Colorado, and builders who have to make accommodations for the mouse are causing housing...

At first South Korean engineers feared the waters would cascade from North Korea, flooding towns and farms, rising above the banks of the mighty Han River as it bisects the capital of Seoul, 80 miles to the southwest. HWACHEON, South Korea The conflict between North and South Korea has claimed hundreds of thousands of human casualties over more than half a century, but the latest group at risk is a different species entirely the otter. By now, however, the waters have receded to a trickle...