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Life After Death Oldsmobile Enthusiasts Preserve the Lansing Brand See Page 15 2 City Pulse • September 25, 2019 a newspaper for the rest of us www.lansingcitypulse.com September 25 - October 1, 2019 Life after death Oldsmobile enthusiasts preserve the Lansing brand See page 15 2 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 25, 2019 Make $50,000 to $70,000 a year Seeking full-time Sales Exec City Pulse is hiring sales execs. It’s not just a job — it’s a Ph.D. in sales education. Enter the most lucrative profession on earth: Sales. FALL Learn how to do it at City Pulse. Age and experience are not an issue. We will train you if you have the right personality and drive. SPECIALS Then grow with City Pulse — or take your education to a bigger playing field. INTERESTED? Call Berl Schwartz • (517) 999-5061 City Pulse • September 25, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 3 Favorite Things TAYLOR JOHNSTON Dicker and Deal manager Adam Smith Early Music Series and ‘The Blues Brothers’ replicas ENSEMBLE Bizarria 9/30 MONDAY, 7:30 PM FAIRCHILD THEATRE MSU AUDITORIUM Orpheus and Hercules: Music from the Court of Modena. Two of the best West Coast performers of early music bring to life the virtuosic music of the Este court of Modena, featuring rare gems for violin and cello by 17th-century composers Cima, Colombi, and Uccellini. In remembrance of Dr. Taylor Johnston, the College of Music would like to recognize his vision, passion and support for underwriting the Early Music Series. These used to be left outside on $1,500 on up depending on who you INFO AND TICKETS Grand River Avenue and Ingersoll got. I don’t know where the previous music.msu.edu/early-music Road. The owners had some buffaloes owner got them from before us. 517-353-5340 too out there. They had them out on These are not for sale. On average some concrete blocks out front and I think three to five people a day ask everyone from the area knew them. us if they can buy these things. We Since they were made from fiber- tell people they are priceless because glass, they withstood the elements. we will never sell them. Generally we We didn’t even have to give them a also have at least one person taking touch up because they didn’t need it. a picture with them. Kids love them Customers always ask if they are too. the same ones. And I tell them, “The Blues Brothers” were a De- “That’s them.” We bought them in troit thing and people know that. the ’90s and they hung out in Music These are definitely a symbol of Manor for a few years before being Michigan and people from around brought here. People still come in and here really enjoy that. take pictures with them all the time. I’ve been here four years and first Some give them a high-five. They are saw them when I came here because I a real cool way to put people in a good worked for a guy who runs an auction mood when they walk in the door. house in Potterville. I worked with It’s good to have the first thing cus- him for five years and I used to buy tomers see put a smile on their faces. and sell in here with him too. It puts people in a good mood to see We keep a lot of good quality all the other things we have here in things here from ending up broken our half-store and half-museum. We or ending up in a landfill. We give a have a lot of things not for sale hang- second life to a lot of things. It is a ing on the wall. constantly changing atmosphere, but But they are probably the one thing I think these will be here forever. that has been here the longest. There (This interview was edited and is a lot added, but we’ve had these condensed by Dennis Burck. If you things for over 25 years. That is al- have a recommendation for “Favorite most the entire time the store existed. Things,” please email dennis@lan- At one point I did look these up. singcitypulse.com. You can visit “The You can order these from a company Blues Brothers” and Dicker and Deal out of California. They make all sorts at 2408 S. Cedar St.) of statues like this. They ran from 4 www.lansingcitypulse.com City Pulse • September 25, 2019 VOL. 19 ISSUE 7 (517) 371-5600 • Fax: (517) 999-6061 • 1905 E. 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 10 [email protected] • (517) 999-5061 ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR • Audrey Matusz MSU honors literature Professor Anita Skeen [email protected] • (517) 999-5068 EVENTS EDITOR/OFFICE MANAGER • Suzi Smith [email protected] • (517) 999-6704 PRODUCTION MANAGER • Skyler Ashley PAGE [email protected] (517) 999-5066 19 MARKETING DIRECTOR • Sarah Dropsey [email protected], (517) 999-6707 The Michigan photographer who changed National Geographic STAFF WRITERS • Lawrence Cosentino [email protected] • (517) 999-5065 Dennis Burck • [email protected] (517) 999-6705 PAGE Chris Gray • [email protected] (517) 999-6710 25 SALES EXECUTIVE Lee Purdy • [email protected] • (517) 999-5064 Foster Coffee Co. opens in East Lansing Contributors: Andy Balaskovitz, Justin Bilicki, Daniel E. Bollman, Capital News Service, Bill Castanier, Ryan Clay- tor, Mary C. Cusack, Tom Helma, Gabrielle Lawrence Johnson, Terry Link, Andy McGlashen, Kyle Melinn, Mark Nixon, Shawn Parker, Stefanie Pohl, Dennis Preston, Cover Allan I. Ross, Nevin Speerbrecker, Rich Tupica, Ute Von Der Heyden, David Winkelstern, Paul Wozniak Art Distribution manager: Paul Shore • (517) 999-6704 Delivery drivers: Garrett Clinard, Dave Fisher, Dale By Dennis Burck Gartner, Jack Sova, Gavin Smith Interns: Matthew Stine • [email protected] NOW AT 10:00 A.M. SUNDAYS on OF THE WEEK City Pulse • September 25, 2019 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 PULSE NEWS & OPINION Slotkin opens up to possible Trump impeachment When it comes to impeaching Don- process, not a legal process” and some- ald Trump, Lansing’s congresswoman thing that should only be approached may be the canary in the coal mine. carefully. And this week Elissa Slotkin has giv- Slotkin's shift, which occurred over en hope to the impeachment cause. the weekend, came ahead of House First thing Monday, Slotkin, a Dem- Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement ocrat from Holly in the of a formal impeachment inquiry. eastern portion of the POLITICS On Sunday, The New York Times 8th District, told the reported Trump acknowledged that media that if recent ac- in speaking with Ukraine’s president, cusations about Trump he accused the former vice president strong-arming the of corruption tied to his son Hunter’s Ukrainian president to business activities in that former Soviet investigate potential republic. 2020 opponent Joe The Wall Street Journal has reported Biden are true, it “consti- that Trump urged Volodymyr Zelen- tutes an impeachable offense.” sky multiple times during the July 25 “If these allegations are true, or if phone call to work with the president’s the White House refuses to clear up lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on an inves- Kyle Melinn/City Pulse these allegations, the Congress has no tigation of Biden and his son. Mean- U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Holly, who represents the 8th Congressional District, choice but to consider all congressional while, the Trump administration has meets with GM picketers in REO Town Monday. authorities available to us, including held up $250 million in security aid to the power of inherent contempt and the country. to release it, she wrote. differently,” she said while talking to impeachment hearings, to protect our Slotkin said this funding for mili- Also, Congress is now learning that a reporters Monday at the UAW strike at national security,” she wrote in a De- tary equipment and advanced military U.S. intelligence official filed a whis- the General Motors Grand River As- troit Free Press article Tuesday. training was intended to equip the tleblower complaint about a Trump sembly plant. “That is a really striking The statement is a notable shift for Ukrainians to defend against Rus- conversation with Zelensky. allegation and if that’s true, we’re in a the pragmatic congresswoman, who sian-backed militants who have taken Slotkin, a former CIA agent and different moment. As a national securi- has shied away from following Dem- over the eastern portion of their coun- national intelligence official, has been ty professional, as a former CIA officer, ocratic colleagues into the pool of im- try. The security assistance funded was talking with her national security piers that kind of thing goes so beyond the peachment talk. Slotkin has cautiously only restored when a bipartisan group in Congress about the matter. pale of what is acceptable for our own referred to impeachment as a “political of lawmakers forced the White House “To me, this just smells and feels See Slotkin, Page 6 Rather than nudging the civic leader ket value and below the cost of upkeep passed away, sometime after 2012. to repair his dilapidated building, the and property taxes, too. The man died Both houses are a relic of a bygone house has fallen further into disrepair before the first eyesore article ran. He Lansing, when the siting of the state REVISITEDOF THE WEEK since the article ran. Part of the roof is wanted the man to live out his life there capital created an overnight city, but caving in, holes have appeared through before he flipped the house for sale or well before the days of the automobile the siding into the interior and a look another rental.
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