About Capital Gains
Capital Gains is an online magazine and web site showcasing the growth and investments transforming the Lansing region.
Capital Gains tells the story of the city’s entrepreneurs, investments, neighborhoods, and arts and culture with the latest development and jobs news in the Lansing area. Featuring original stories and photography, Capital Gains will have you seeing the Capital City differently.
Editor-in-Chief:
A Jayhawk by birth, Brad arrived in Lansing (for the forests and the rivers) in 2001 with everything he owned in the back of a 1987 Ford Ranger. With degrees in Geology and English, his youthful aspirations included writing for National Geographic, hosting a travel show on the Discovery Channel, and writing the Great American novel. He's currently an optimistic 0-for-3.
A full-time environmental advocate working to bring Smart Growth development ideas to Michigan's statehouse, Brad enjoys mountain biking, fly fishing, cold beer and baseball. His favorite seats in Lansing include the first base-side before a Lugnuts game, the counter at Old Town's Golden Harvest Restaurant, and the house he shares with his wife, Jennifer, near the Lansing River Trail.
His writing has been ignored in the Texas Review, Touchstone Magazine, the Flint Hills Review, Michigan Environmental Report, Michigan Prospect, and a few rants in newspapers Up North; you might also hear him on Michigan Public Radio once in a while.
Managing Editor:
Suban openly suffers from a serious case of wanderlust. A seasoned traveler, she has called four of the world’s seven continents “home” in her lifetime. Now, she happily resides in Lansing’s Moores Park Neighborhood where she shares a home with her husband and son, and a hermit crab named “Hermes.”
Suban began her reporting beat working for a music magazine, BMA Mag, in her Australian hometown, interviewing the likes of Comedian Margaret Cho and the Buena Vista Social Club. After moving to Lansing, she worked as a freelance writer with the Lansing State Journal and fulltime as a communications professional.
A lover of all things local, you can find Suban frequenting many of Lansing’s locally owned restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, museums and parks.
Director of Photography:
It's hard to find someone in Lansing's professional crowd that hasn't been in front of Dave's camera lens. Dave's been taking photos in the Lansing area since 1987 and through his freelance photography business, Trumpie Photography, has developed a client list that includes the area's major PR firms, publications and businesses.
Dave's also captured Mohammad Ali, Senator Hilary Clinton, James Earl Jones and President George Bush on film. His photos have popped up in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and USA Today. Dave's a Grand Ledge man, but he's snapped his way to Poland, Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
Dave lives with his wife, Jen, in an 1890 farmhouse. Their children are Piglet and Sydney, an adopted cat and dog. When they can, they leave Piglet and Sydney at home and go to the state's West coast to play with Shooter, their sailboat.
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