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Find out Who Has the Best Pizza on Your Side of Town SEE PAGE 21 FREE Locally owned October 21 - 27, 2020 A newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com PLUS Find out who has the best pizza on your side of town SEE PAGE 21 City Pulse Knight Ad.qxp_Layout 1 10/13/20 10:45 AM Page 2 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • October 21, 2020 THIS IS IT. THE TIME IS NOW. DON’T SIT ON THE SIDELINES. VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION! Know your voting rights and make sure your voice is heard on November 3. Have questions or need to report a problem? Call the nonpartisan Election Protection Hotline at (866) OUR-VOTE (866)-687-8683 City Pulse • October 21, 2020 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 Business in #LoveLansing is RESTARTING. RESILIENT. With more than $7 million provided to 484 small businesses and nonprofits across Clinton, Eaton and Ingham counties, LEAP is working to stabilize and restore the regional economy for everyone. 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Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-5061 or email [email protected] PAGE CLASSIFIEDS: (517) 999-6704 EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz 9 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Skyler Ashley Purple Michigan: Rockford [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR/OFFICE MANAGER • Suzi Smith [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 PAGE PRODUCTION • Abby Sumbler [email protected] 44 (517) 999-5066 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino Broad Art Museum's new director looks to the future [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 Kyle Kaminski • [email protected] FREE (517) 999-6710 SALES EXECUTIVE PAGE Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 SALES ASSISTANT 53 Earlisha Scott • [email protected] Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Capital New in Town: Taqueria El Chapparito's westside restaurant News Service, Bill Castanier, Ryan Claytor, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Dawn Parker, Dennis Preston, Carrie Sampson, Nevin Speerbrecker, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, COVER Paul Wozniak Delivery drivers: Dave Fisher Interns: Matthew Stine • [email protected] Illustration by Nevin Speerbrecher NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on City Pulse • October 21, 2020 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Doing the right thing It’s always the right time to do the right thing. believe We state that principle up front — with a hat tip we’ve to Spike Lee’s eponymous film — because it aptly The CP Edit done a expresses our approach to delivering news to our pretty readers to the best of our ability. When we fall Opinion good job short, we don’t believe in making excuses. We’re all covering about admitting our missteps, righting the ship, and issues becoming a better paper — and better people — reporter from our small staff in January when she related in the process. That said, we also reserve the right moved onward and upward in her career. Although to race, to defend ourselves when we believe criticism is we have taken a significant financial hit due to the social jus- unfounded or unfair. COVID pandemic, we continue to diligently seek tice and With that preface, we note that City Pulse was qualified candidates of color because we under- equity. We recently on the receiving end of pointed criti- stand that it is vitally important for this paper to were the cism from Ingham County Commissioner Derrell reflect the diverse voices of the community we first news- Slaughter for our failure to include the perspective serve. Had she been on our staff when we devel- paper to of Black citizens in the formulation and scoring of oped the social justice and equity survey, there is question our candidate survey on social justice and equity. no doubt her lived experience as a Black woman Mayor We undertook the survey because we believe it would have brought immeasurable value to the Andy is the right thing to do. An important part of our enterprise. In her absence, we should have worked Schor for mission is to help voters learn more about the harder to seek out others to contribute to the pro- his treat- views of people seeking elected office on the most cess and are committed to doing so in the future. ment of important issues of our time. Commissioner Slaughter also expressed his Black city Flickr: Do The Right Thing graffiti Amsterdam Commissioner Slaughter declined to participate disappointment with a story we wrote last year employees in our survey because he believed that the ques- that focused on the stalled appointment of a Black and doggedly followed up as the story unfolded. tions were composed solely by a white person (he Lansing resident to a county advisory board. His We have diligently reported on the protest move- is correct). He further surmised that the respons- appointment was paused by county officials after ment against racial injustice and police brutality in es would be scored by a white person (also cor- a City Pulse reporter brought to their attention a Lansing,
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