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May 11-17, 2016 Lansing Symphony maestro powers up for three more years OPENS NEXT WEEK! MAY 19-22 MSU’s Wharton Center WHARTONCENTER.COM 1-800-WHARTON East Lansing engagement welcomed by Farm Bureau Insurance. 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 11, 2016 www.LansingPathwayPromiseYES.com Paid for with regulated funds by Lansing Pathway Promise – Yes! 208 N Capitol Ave, Suite 400 Lansing, Michigan 48933 City Pulse • May 11, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 Get tickets at riverrockconcert.com Friday (featuring Verve Pipe) Schedule General Admission $15 adv/$25 door VIP Admission $20 adv/$30 door Friday 6:30-7:30 pm: Triple Lindy Saturday (featuring local bands and 8-8:50 pm: Wally Pleasant City Pulse/Fox 47 Top of the Town Contest Party) 9:20-10:45 pm: Verve Pipe General Admission $5 adv/$15 door VIP Admission $10 adv/$20 door Saturday General Admission 3:30 pm: Gates open and TOTT party $10 adv/$20 door 4:30-6 pm: James Gardin VIP Admission 6:30-7:30 pm: Stefanie Haapala and TOTT party $15 adv/$25 door 8-9 pm: City Mouse Two-night combo 9:30-10:30 pm: General Admission $18 adv/$28 door Elliot Street Lunatic VIP Admission $28 adv/$38 door 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • May 11, 2016 Corrections VOL. 15 ISSUE 39 Because of a reporting error, a story Jazz Musician in last week’s City Pulse gave the wrong Jim Alfredson first name of Ingham County Circuit Phil Denny (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. Michigan Ave. • Lansing, MI 48912 • www.lansingcitypulse.com Judge Janelle Lawless. MSU Professors of Jazz ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: (517) 999-6704 Root Doctor PAGE or email [email protected] Due to an editing error, Wag’N Tails Sunny Wilkinson was left out of the Pet Care/Services EDITOR AND PUBLISHER • Berl Schwartz category in last week’s Top of the Town 8 Due to a reporting error, the co- [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 Final Five nominees; Doggy Daycare & owners of Artisan Company Salon were ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER • Mickey Hirten Spa was listed twice. The following cat- [email protected] misidentified in the photo caption of Lansing to cap dispensaries, then regulate them egories were unintentionally omitted last week’s New in Town column. Lance ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Ty Forquer from last week’s Top of the Town Final [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 Five nominees: Davis is on the left; Jason Franks is on the right. PAGE PRODUCTION MANAGER • Allison Hammerly [email protected] • (517) 999-5066 Cover Band 14 STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino Blue Haired Bettys [email protected] Frog & the Beeftones Todd Heywood [email protected] Hot Mess Wally Pleasant to perform '90s album at River Rock Concert Soulstice ADVERTISING • Shelly Olson, Suzi Smith, Starfarm Prince Spann, Liza Sayre PAGE [email protected]:30 a.m. Saturdays Classical Musician [email protected] Ed Fedewa 21 [email protected] Sergei Kvitko [email protected] Rodney Page Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Philip Rice Doug Mains & the City Folk release album three years in the making Daniel E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Ralph Votapek Castanier, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Johnson, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon,$ Shawn Parker, $ Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Club DJ COVER Preston, Allan I. Ross, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der John Beltran Heyden,$ Paul Wozniak Capitol City DJs Donnie D ART Delivery drivers: Frank Estrada, Dave Fisher, Dick Craig Doepker CrowdsourcingRadway, Richard Simpson, Thomas Scott Jr. Ruckus by JONATHANA GRIFFITHGUIDE TO LANSING-AREA ONLINE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS CITY PULSE Editor & Publisher on the Berl Schwartz Feedback AIR Now airing on BWL can truly ensure ing an energy efficiency program that goes beyond the state mandated 1%. Energy effi- 10:30 a.m. Saturdays Lansing's energy future ciency returns more than 4 dollars for every 89 FM The Lansing Board of Water and Light 1 dollar spent. Other public utilities are (BWL) Citizens Advisory Committee is set already pursuing higher energy efficiency to report on its recommendations for the options. Energy efficiency is good for BWL future of power generation in our region and, more importantly, results in lower as part of an Integrated Resource Plan energy costs for the citizens of our region. (IRP) process. This plan should provide In Addition, the plan should set rea- an opportunity for BWL to become a sonable and achievable dates for decom- leader in providing clean, smart and sus- missioning the Erickson and Eckert tainable electric power. power plants so The Capital Region can be We have high hopes that the IRP will confident we are moving towards a healthy make our region a model of 21st century energy future. electric power generation and suggest the Finally, the plan should commit BWL to following to accomplish that objective: regularly review and, if necessary, amend The plan should commit to significant the IRP. That review should be performed future investment in renewable energy with community input from throughout the sources and energy efficiency programs. Capital Region. BWL has made investments in renewable We look forward to reading the Citizen energy and has supported our efforts to Advisory Committee (CAC) Report and establish community solar opportunities. hope that it will reflect the points we have However, we see the need to do much made here. We also look forward to a robust more to secure the Capital Region's energy community review and discussion of BWL's future. The current plan to simply replace plan for the Capital Region's energy future. facilities fueled by dirty coal with those fueled by natural gas is a limited improve- —Mark Meadows ment and shortsighted. Natural gas is a fi- Mayor, East Lansing nite resource with a cost that will inevitably rise as its use is broadened. Its use will also Ken Fletcher ultimately impact the cost of home heating- Supervisor -an undesirable result. Delta Township The plan should also commit to build- City Pulse • May 11, 2016 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION prostitution enforcement as well as the register of actions from 54-A District Secrecy policy surfaces Court related to at least some of these charges. The release also included hours Lansing withholds names of arrestees of blurred-out dashboard cam video show- ing the arrests of persons on prostitution- C Adopting a new, and possibly uncon- “We’re following the [Freedom of Infor- related crimes. In each of those videos, a OF THE WEEK stitutional, policy that shields its law en- mation] act. That’s our position.” Lansing Police officer, in full uniform and forcement actions from public scrutiny, The decision to withhold from pub- driving a marked police vehicle, is seen Lansing’s City Attorney’s Office is no longer lic scrutiny details of its policing actions making the arrests connected to under- releasing the names of people the Lansing raised constitutional concerns for Michael cover operations. Police arrest and jail. Nichols, a local defense attorney. The reports included 38 cases of peo- Until recently, Lansing, like other area “Let’s say I have a client — Jack Smith ple accused of prostitution and 14 cases governments, named those it arrested af- — and his wife calls me and says, ‘Jack has of men charged with soliciting a female ter they were arraigned in District Court. been missing all night, I think he might undercover officer for sex for money. In But last week, in responding to a request have been arrested,’” Nichols said by eight of those cases, the men’s cars were from City Pulse for arrest records for pros- phone Monday afternoon. “How am I sup- impounded under state law, according to titution, the City Attorney’s Office the records. Of those impounded, disclosed it has adopted a policy of five of the eight were reclaimed by protecting the privacy of arrested the owner for $500 plus towing and individuals by not releasing their storage costs. names. Dotson, the city's FOIA coordina- In an interview Monday, interim tor, declined to discuss the new poli- City Attorney Joseph Abood con- cy on the record, referring City Pulse firmed that his office will no longer to Hannan. Property: MSU Student Union routinely provide the names of ar- But in a letter to City Pulse accom- East Lansing restees. panying the censored documents, He said the decision is "consis- Dotson wrote, “The information is tent" with the Michigan Freedom personal in nature and disclosure Though perhaps not as iconic as Beaumont Tower, the MSU Student Union of Information Act. But he also would constitute a clearly unwar- is nevertheless a campus landmark. With said his office is doing further re- ranted invasion of the individual’s finals week marking the end of another aca- search to "make sure we're on solid privacy. In addition, disclosure of the demic year, the building is likely to be the ground." information would not advance the backdrop for countless photographs. Initial Added Abood, " "I've always been core purpose of FOIA, which is to planning for the building began in 1905, troubled, as back when I was in pri- contribute significantly to the public although it was not constructed 1925, when vate practice, with the release of the understanding of government.” it was known as the MAC Memorial Union, names of my clients." The act allows nearly all residents of the state, except those incarcerated, to in tribute to fallen soldiers of WWI. The change in practice was discovered posed to pursue my client’s habeas rights Its architect was the Chicago-based firm request documents from the government.