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The Lansing Journal is a community newspaper. We welcome input from fellow residents who have thoughtful things to say about topics that are important to our community. Send your submissions to [email protected] with “Voices” in the subject line.
Local Voices: Lansing’s pizza legacy – past, present, and future
Local Voices
Derek Barthel
The idea to write this piece came to me while eating an especially mediocre pizza from an unnamed “mom ‘n pop” pizzeria...
Local Voices: The ongoing KYNGZ Restaurant approval process
Local Voices
Bob Malkas
The partners in the KYNGZ Restaurant group have done a masterful job in following Lansing’s established procedures to get approval for a...
Local Voices: Recent letter to Congresswoman Robin Kelly
Local Voices
Bob Malkas
I don't think this information will be approved for the Journal, and I will understand. But I like to keep people posted...
Local Voices: Why is the N-word allowed in schools?
Local Voices
by Elvis Slaughter
The N-word is one of the most hateful, racist, useless, and inhumane words in the English vocabulary, and schools play a...
Local Voices: Missing Bakers Square
by Ashley Cushing
Delicious French dip sandwiches. Tomato basil soup. Freshly-baked pies of many flavors. Feeling like you walked into someone’s dining room at home,...
Editorial Contest: Too close for comfort – a firsthand account of ‘white flight’ in Lansing
For The Lansing Journal's first-ever editorial contest, we partnered with the freshmen class at Unity Christian Academy. Every student in the 26-student class wrote...
Editorial Contest: Chicago’s hidden divide
For The Lansing Journal's first-ever editorial contest, we partnered with the freshmen class at Unity Christian Academy. Every student in the 26-student class wrote...
Editorial Contest: Banning books – a discussion of censorship
For The Lansing Journal's first-ever editorial contest, we partnered with the freshmen class at Unity Christian Academy. Every student in the 26-student class wrote...
Editorial Contest: Scared healthy – How horror movies can be beneficial
For The Lansing Journal's first-ever editorial contest, we partnered with the freshmen class at Unity Christian Academy. Every student in the 26-student class wrote...
Editorial Contest: When should my kid have a phone? – An iconic dilemma
For The Lansing Journal's first-ever editorial contest, we partnered with the freshmen class at Unity Christian Academy. Every student in the 26-student class wrote...
Local Voices: Public comment at the Bloom Township Annual Town meeting
Local Voices
Bob Malkas
This is a copy of the Public Comments I made to Bloom Township officials at their Annual Town meeting on April 12,...
Local Voices: Kindness
by Gail Blom
I just wanted to write about the kindness my family experienced from Beggars Pizza in Lansing.
Following the death of my nephew, Mark...
Local Voices: ‘I was a young Lansing paperboy’
by Rich Murray, in response to Towns without Newspapers
Just a quick note with background memories. I was a young Lansing paperboy in 1954-1955 when...
Local Voices: Who proudly contributed to the NAACP’s success?
contributed by Elvis Slaughter
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up...
Local Voices: We need to protect renters of storage units
contributed by Retired Army Col. Paul Kantwill
During and since my time as an active-duty officer in the Army, I have devoted much time and...