FREE a newspap www.lansingcitypulse HOPEFEAR BLACK VIOLIN Friday, February 17 at 8pm Classical meets hip-hop with pop, rock, soul, jazz and funk in between! Wilner Wil B Baptiste (viola) and Kevin Kev Marcus Sylvester (violin) create a unique generation-defying, groundbreaking sound that will surprise and delight! Variety Series Sponsor: Media Sponsor: WHARTONCENTER.COM • 1-800-WHARTON 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • January 18, 2017 January 26 - February 26, 2017 WORLD PREMIERE A beautifully crafted play about OUT WITH THE OLD, family, loss, regret and the staggering power of fear. IN WITH THE NEW But ultimately, at its center, this is a play about love. Announcing a January Clearance Sale 40% O and More Pay-What-You-Can Preview On selected merchandise in all categories Thursday, Jan. 26 @ 8PM $15 Previews Jan. 27 @ 8PM Tuesday-Friday 10-6 | Saturday 10-5 | Sunday noon-4| Closed Monday Jan. 28 @ 8PM Jan. 29 @ 2PM 211 M.A.C. Avenue, East Lansing | 517.351.2211 | mackerelsky.com By Christy Hall Feb. 2 @ 8PM Directed by Williamston Theatre Frannie Shepherd-Bates 122 S Putnam St.,Williamston Featuring: Ruth Crawford 517-655-7469 Dominique Lowell, Lynch Travis www.williamstontheatre.org LINDA VAIL JIM MCCLURKEN Lansing City Council Candidate Ingham County Health Officer City Pulse • January 18, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 After 41 years as the Lansing area’s first locally-owned organic grocery store, the East Lansing Food Co-op will be closing its doors. Our future is uncertain. The Board of Directors, together with ELFCO owners, will determine our co-op’s next steps. We will be open for business during regular store hours until Saturday, February 4th, 2017. Zingerman’s, Otto’s Chicken, Calder Dairy, MooVille, and starting 1/11/17 Hilhof Dairy will continue to be available! 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Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com Mid-Michigan should but either way, I think Lansing and East Lansing should join many other cities ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-6704 or email [email protected] embrace sanctuary cities nationwide who want to send a mes- I was surprised to read in Lawrence PAGE sage to our immigrant neighbors “we EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz Cosentino’s article “Should Lansing value you, you are welcome here, you 6 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 Become a Sanctuary City?” that the are safe!” As American history demon- ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten Lansing City Council has taken over 7 strates, embracing diversity in our cities [email protected] years for the “legal review” of the initial Love thy neighbor — but not his pot smell ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Ty Forquer makes us stronger and better. [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 proposal that was originally submit- ted to them in 2009. It is not now nor PRODUCTION MANAGER • Allison Hammerly — Anna Fisher PAGE [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 has it ever been the jurisdiction of local STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino police to enforce immigration law. The 14 [email protected] local police are not deputized to do im- Todd Heywood migration law. Chief Yankowski cor- Blame game [email protected] rectly assures that LPD will apprehend Judy Hood of Bath blamed gerryman- Local arts communities react to Trump's inauguration ADVERTISING dering for Donald Trumps victory. SALES & MARKETING DIRECTOR • Rich Tupica violent felons, but not police someone’s [email protected]:30 a.m. Saturdays immigration status. LPD is on solid V.L. Pentel of Lansing blamed Russia. PAGE Now Shelley Centeno blames FBI SALES EXECUTIVES • Mandy Jackson, Liza Sayre, ground legally to join many other cities Suzi Smith Director Cuomy. in adopting Sanctuary City status. Why 15 [email protected] the hold up? Why does no one blame the Demo- [email protected] It was also surprising to learn that cratic Party for choosing Hillary Clinton [email protected] the Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity over the more reasanoble, rational, lik- Michael Dease explores the cradles and colors of jazz Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, able Bernie Sanders. Daniel E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill and Inclusion has formally ended. Now Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle is certainly not the time to end such a As far as a course, vulgar man being COVER Lawrence Johnson, Eve Kucharski, Terry Link, Andy committee! elected President, have we forgotten Bill McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Clinton? Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich It is not certain that the federal ART Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, Paul Wozniak government can withhold funds to cities Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Paul Shore, who adopt a “Sanctuary City” status, — Earl L. 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PUBLIC NOTICES City of Lansing Notice of Public Hearing The Lansing City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, January 30, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 10th Floor, Lansing City Hall, Lansing, MI, for the purpose stated below: To afford an opportunity for all residents, taxpayers of the City of Lansing, City Assessor, other interested persons and ad valorem taxing units to appear and be heard on the approval of an Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Certificate (the “Certificate”), pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of the Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act, Public Act 146 of 2000, for property located at 506 South Hosmer Street, Lansing, Michigan, but more particularly described as follows: LOT 5 ASSESSORS PLAT NO 24 REC L 10 P 29, Ingham County, Michigan -- Parcel Number: 33-01- 01-15-351-051, and Approval of this Certificate will provide the owner or potentially the developer of property an abatement of certain property taxes for the improvements to the property noted above. Further information regarding this issue may be obtained from Karl Dorshimer, Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP), 1000 S. Washington Ave., Suite 201, Lansing, MI 48910, 517-702-3387. For more information, please call Lansing City Council at 517-483-4177. If you are interested in this matter, please attend the public hearing or send a representative. Written comments will be accepted between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on City business days if received before 5 p.m., on the day of the Public Hearing at the City Clerk’s Office, Ninth Floor, City Hall, 124 West Michigan Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 or email [email protected]. Chris Swope, Lansing City Clerk www.lansingmi.gov/Clerk www.facebook.com/LansingClerkSwope CP#17-010 City Pulse • January 18, 2017 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION themselves in the nearest public bathroom to do it. Vail pointed out that Sparrow sees a Opioid crisis significant number of overdoses in its bath- rooms in part because it offers the cheapest New maps show where overdose crisis is worse sterile needle price in the region. C Officials are still trying to get their arms OF THE WEEK “Scanner — 30-year-old male overdose and giving medical first responders a year to around the data and how exactly to use it to victim, not breathing, needles on floor near- implement the new policy. In 2015 lawmak- fight the opioid epidemic in the city. by, 3600 block of Lathrop.” ers expanded the access to the drug to law “Right now we're doing a lot of informa- This Jan. 2 sentence is a typical post on enforcement responders. And last year, they tion gathering in order to analyze the in- neighborhood activist Loretta Stanaway’s cleared the way to allow the drug to be avail- formation in order to make wise decisions Facebook page. Late into the night, she sits able in schools throughout Michigan. about what to do with it,” Vail said. “And at her computer doing work, listening to “Deaths have quadrupled in the last 10 we're fairly early on in that process.” Lansing scanner traffic. She plucks the on- to 12 years, which is the national trend, and That process, she said, would include going happenings off the airwaves and pub- that's true for Ingham County,” Vail said. comparing social issues such as crime re- lishes them on her social media. “We would consider that an epidemic just ports in the hot spot zones to see if there And her feed reveals the secret and on- like nationally we're calling it an epidemic.” is a correlation.