Prosperity Planning 101: Charting E/Lansing's Metro Future
By: Staff,
7/23/2008
With the future of the U.S. economy on the line, Bruce Katz, from the DC-based Brookings Institution, is rallying the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas to action, and offering us a gut-check on how the Lansing/East Lansing metro stacks up in the new, global paradigm.
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Revenue and Rare Isotopes: Going Nuclear in East Lansing
By: Elizabeth Silver,
7/9/2008
With a reputation for “homemade” isotopes, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU produces more elite nuclear scientists than any other school but MIT, and helps bring millions of dollars to Mid-Michigan.
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Going Hollywood: Lansing Financiers Get Film-Friendly
By: Melinda Clynes and Brad Garmon,
6/25/2008
Thanks to new state incentives and a few ambitious Lansing entrepreneurs, a vacant parking lot in Downtown Lansing may soon be bustling with the action—and cash—of big-budget, Hollywood films.
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Upsides of a Down Housing Market
By: Brynn Howard,
6/18/2008
Home sales might be struggling in the wake of the mortgage and credit crunches, but if you’re in the market for a green remodel or a neighborhood makeover, things aren’t looking so bad in Lansing.
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