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so many bad qualities, that I finally
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decided the pins were the way to go. I holiday
started ordering them, and I realized
the only way to work with these things
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was to give joy and happiness to the support a man like him that they don’t residential
people. When it’s free, it’s a lot easier bring it up. They just keep walking.
to be joyful, so I just started giving I need to reach people who are unde- electric
them away. I run into so many people cided, the people who haven’t made up customers
that are happy to get these buttons their mind. These are the people that
because they dislike him so much. are going to decide this election. They who recycle
I first had them on my lapel, now I make up the percentages in the middle a qualifying
wear them on my hat. People see the that are going to turn this thing one
button right away. To get a button way or another. appliance
from me, somebody will say, “Hey, I I’m dedicated to this cause because can choose to
love that button.” As soon as they say we have a real problem. He will have
that, I give them one — it’s that easy. his hands on many, many lifetime donate their
And then they’re thrilled, so they say, appointments as president. I just
turned 70, so the rest of my life is
$25-$50 rebate
“Can I have another one?” When I was
in California and I’d go into a Trader going to be influenced by Trump. If he to the Greater
Joe’s grocery store, I’d walk out having
given 22 of them away.
wins again, all the young people are
going to have that same thing happen
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My wife has been very worried. She to them. This man respects nobody. Bank. Call
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PULSE NEWS & OPINION
Resolve Lansing
For many more
New Year’s resolutions
of local leaders, please visit
Local leaders outline vision for 2020 www.lansingcitypulse.com
It’s a new year. We asked dozens of Commissioners 9-year-old, both from different parts of passed congressman
of local leaders how can we resolve to is looking to make the city, and enjoy the bands West 496 in the week before
make Greater Lansing a better place in Greater Lansing a or Phil Denny and dance in the street Christmas — has
2020? better place in 2020 until the sun goes down. I want a pray- left all of us feeling
They answered: by asking voters to ing Lansing that never loses faith in raw. The danger is
Ruth Beier, mayor, City of East renew many millages God. So in 2020, I resolve to continue if we allow this to
Lansing: that are set to expire. working with AARP, the state and com- poison our political
Too often, people Because of cuts at munity partners to make Michigan the discourse. This year
think that they have the state and federal best “age friendly” state in the nation. I we saw an over the
Crenshaw
to leave the area for levels with revenue invite you to join in this effort. top rhetoric during Hertel
good jobs in grow- sharing and oth- the budget battle
ing fields. We hope er funding, municipalities must fund Jessy Gregg, councilwoman, City of in Lansing and even our local races in
to attract businesses these services through millages or other East Lansing: Lansing had negative tones. I hope all
that will attract and methods so residents who need these We’ve made some elected officials will try to be more civil
retain a quality work- critical services receive them. As stew- great strides in reha- in our discourse, and that citizens will
force. Combining ards of tax dollars, the board will ensure bilitating our trail hold them accountable if they fail to do
career opportunities Beier that tax dollars received through these infrastructure in the so.
with our world-class millages is used only for the purposes last few years, and
K-12 education, our five brand new ele- intended. Ingham County voters have there are a lot of great Thomas Morgan, commissioner,
mentary schools and our proximity to historically supported our millages to parks and trail proj- Ingham County
MSU will make this a destination that provide enhanced services to their qual- ects in the pipeline. Too often we mea-
workers and families should consider ity of life. Voting and supporting these I think the Capitol sure progress by
when deciding where to establish them- renewals will show continued support region is well situat- Gregg cranes in the sky.
selves professionally. of making Greater Lansing a better ed to be a regional Development is great
place and a destination for many to destination for outdoor recreation if we — especially when it
Melik Brown, owner, LansingMade: come to. continue to invest in our trails and blue- creates good-paying
The continued ways (river trails) infrastructure. We union jobs for local
goal of LansingMade Paula Cunningham, Michigan state also need to continue the work that’s workers — but at
is to showcase what’s director, AARP: been done on our “complete streets” the end of the day,
Morgan
cool in the region. I e nv i s i o n a plan. It should be just as easy and con- our community is
We have great busi- Lansing where every venient to navigate our towns by foot or only as strong as
ness attributes and man, woman and on a bike as it is by car. I would also like our weakest residents. The child failing
natural resources. If child can reach their to see more of our vacant retail spaces third grade because his home life is in
we continue to work full potential and live filled, ideally with locally owned busi- shambles doesn’t care how many high-
together to uplift in a community that nesses outside of the chain-restaurant end apartments Pat Gillespie is build-
ourselves, we’ll feel Brown is safe, has easy access mold. If someone locally has an exciting ing. The 55-year-old woman with two
good about ourselves to both a quality edu- idea for a shop or business, I want them jobs but no access to mental health care
as a community. cation and quality to keep that idea here so that we can doesn’t benefit from Joel Ferguson’s
Others will begin to take notice. Lansing health care from the Cunningham benefit from it rather than take their new boutique hotel. A hip microbrew-
grit is fierce. It’s time for the world to cradle to the grave. creative ideas elsewhere. There’s been ery doesn’t help an 80-year-old widow
see the many opportunities available in I want a Lansing where older adults some progress made with local tech stay in her own house instead of being
this community. Our greatest positive can maintain the quality of their life by incubators but tech companies are only wheeled into the dank corner of a cheap
is the people of Metro Lansing. We are choosing how they want to age and they one piece in the local economy puz- nursing home. Progress means better
diverse, innovative, industrial, artistic, are given more support for home and zle. We need incubator space for other lives for our residents, and that’s why
caring, giving, resourceful and strong. community-based services. I dream of a kinds of start-ups as well. I’m working to expand the county’s
I hope to continue to build a collabo- Lansing that is healthy and where grade health services millage to include men-
rative community who can help all of school children embrace healthy choic- Curtis Hertel Jr., senator, State of See Resolutions, Page 6
Metro Lansing prosper. es and exercise, where they learn about Michigan
entrepreneurship and financial securi- In 2020, I resolve to encourage and
Bryan Crenshaw, chairman, Ingham ty; a Lansing where children grow up promote a return to decency. Three
County Board of Commissioners: without needing unaffordable prescrip- years of a president who will literal-
While it may be unpopular with tion drugs. I want a Lansing where a ly attack anyone — a 16-year-old girl,
some voters, the Ingham County Board 96-year-old can sit in the park with a a disabled reporter, the widow of a OF THENEXT
WILL RETURN WEEKWEEK
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RIP: William Milliken, a moderate Republican whose party left him
By DAVE DEMPSEY So has another Milliken trade- of northern Michigan’s lakes and ing Michigan’s stumbling economy
By the time mark: civil public discourse. He prid- woods, Milliken signed into law the rather than run for a fourth term in
former Michigan ed himself on political compromise state’s enduring environmental laws 1982. GOP conservatives welcomed
G ov. William to advance his goals and shunned protecting wetlands, sand dunes, Milliken’s retirement.
Milliken died name-calling. He was able to work inland lakes and streams and the As his party moved steadily to the
on Oct. 18, only with Democrats who often controlled Great Lakes. When a proposed depos- right, Milliken found himself endors-
those with long both houses of the Legislature while it on beer and soda containers ran ing Democrats such as John Kerry and
memories could he was Michigan’s chief executive. into a lobbyist wall in the Legislature, Hillary Clinton (although he backed
recall his admin- Few achievements of his admin- Milliken was the first citizen of the Rick Snyder for governor in 2010).
istration. The istration characterize his approach state to sign a petition to put the issue Finally, when he was 94, the Grand
l o n g e s t - s e r v - Milliken more than his unlikely partnership on the ballot in 1976. Voters approved Traverse County Republican Party
ing governor in with Democratic Detroit Mayor it by a 2-to-1 margin. It remains the in effect expelled him for being pro-
Michigan histo- Coleman Young. Convinced that the most successful law of its kind in the choice and too liberal.
ry became the oldest ex-governor in state as a whole could not thrive if country. Milliken was unbothered. Perhaps
Michigan history before passing away Detroit continued to falter, Milliken A chief blemish on his adminis- over-optimistically, he believed his
at age 97. He outlived most of his con- and Young cobbled together a state aid tration’s legacy was the PBB debacle. party would return to more moderate
temporaries. package for the city that compensated An industrial accident mixed chem- ways. Always tethered to his beloved
Only those with long memories it for the cost of operating institutions ical retardant with cattle feed in Traverse City — he passed up chanc-
could also recall moderate Republicans of statewide import like the Detroit 1973, contaminating Michigan’s food es to run for the U.S. Senate in part
like Milliken, who left office on Jan. 1, Institute of Arts. In part because the chain and exposing millions of citi- because he preferred being rooted
1983 after nearly 14 years in the gov- African-American and plain-speaking zens to PBB. The slow and defensive in northwestern Michigan — he also
ernor’s chair. An unwavering propo- Young was a foil of outstate (largely response of the Michigan Department remained tethered to a belief that
nent of women’s reproductive choice, Republican) lawmakers, the so-called of Agriculture blew back on the gov- moderation was not a sin, but rather
aid to distressed cities like Detroit, Detroit equity package was an annual ernor. an essential fuel for making govern-
environmental protection and civil target for legislative budget cutting. Milliken’s brand of moderate ment work.
rights, Milliken practiced a brand of But it survived as long as Milliken Republicanism was already going (Dave Dempsey is an environmen-
Republican politics that has, sadly, remained governor. out of fashion when he announced in tal writer and William Milliken’s offi-
gone the way of the passenger pigeon. A native of Traverse City and a son 1981 that he would focus on restor- cial biographer.)
Resolutions
we as a region should not be afraid to non-compliant landlords. I am hoping governmental agencies, I want to see
explore new ways to collaborate on our that the City Council, working with the public attendance of meetings, and we
most pressing issues. Whether to tackle Mayor’s Office, is able to develop ordi- need to see involvement in the upcom-
our housing challenges, our regionalism nances that require the landlord to pay ing election. Today, we decide the future
from page 5 questions, or to find new and exciting for lodging when their properties are of our community, everyone should be
things to do, we must not be afraid to red-tagged and uninhabitable by their involved in that process. I ran for office
tal health, and it’s why I’ve co-authored try. As we head into 2020, we should all residents. at a young age, because I wanted to be
a new senior citizens’ millage to provide resolve to keep an open mind, to work a part of shaping my future. Let’s all be
critical services for elder residents in together, and to explore new ways to Aaron Stephens, mayor pro-tem, City a part of shaping the future of our com-
need. I’m urging everyone in Ingham make Greater Lansing a better place for of East Lansing munity now.
County to approve the health care all residents. This coming year,
millage on March 10 and the seniors’ with new leadership Kelly Tebay, trustee, Michigan State
millage on Aug. 4. As we enter a new Patricia Spitzley, councilwoman, City in place in many University
decade, let’s resolve to remember that of Lansing areas throughout the My 2020 reso-
people matter most — and let’s recali- Continue to grow region, I hope that lution is to make
brate our priorities accordingly. and diversify our we are able to utilize Mi c h i g a n S t at e
economy. Continue resources, and solicit University a desir-
Peter Spadafore, councilman, City of to seek out waste input from each oth- able place to study
Lansing: in city government. er, rather than act- and work. That
Stephens
Our region contin- Make sure our resi- ing as competitors. MSU would be an
ues to be a place that dents have clean and I look forward to the economic driver for
seeks to improve. We safe places to live. We opportunity to work with the new MSU Greater Lansing and
don’t always succeed must develop a set administration on important issues a trusted partner Tebay
but we dare to try. of enforceable poli- Spitzley affecting students and members of the in our community.
To that end, we as cies and procedures Greater Lansing community. The idea Michigan State will
a community must that hold recalci- that our actions do not affect each other, be where people come together to solve
continue to aim high- trant landlords accountable for unsafe whether that be the actions of Lansing, problems for our state with innovation,
er. We must continue housing stock. We must look at new East Lansing, Okemos or MSU is a expertise and integrity. An institution
to experiment and Spadafore tools to not only compel compliance falsehood. My next resolution is some- that leads in addressing community
create — be bold. with our housing codes but also allow thing I cannot do alone, and hope is not health holistically, including resources
We must continue to work toward the us to recoup the costs associated with as big of a task as I imagine it is. I want and support for mental health issues
goal of making Lansing a great place to non-compliant housing stock. Right to see this region more involved in their and preventing sexual assault on college
live, work, and play for all residents, not now we are unable to completely recoup community. I want to see elected offi- campuses. That our campus is diverse,
just a few. We won’t always be success- the costs of multiple inspections, attor- cials holding more coffee hours, extra equitable and inclusive and expands
ful. In fact, many times we will fail. But ney fees, and other costs associated with communication and transparency from these ideals beyond our borders.
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2020: the same but worse
or that his attempted extortion of OK.
Ukraine’s president was “routine.” But Trump just wanted to investi-
Of course, throughout the entire gate the election hacking.
I’ve been eligible Trump’s judges complained, was Ukrainian affair, and through the Ukraine had nothing to do with
INFORMED DISSENT
to vote in five pres- a “liberal dark-money group.” Its entire saga over the Russia inves- that. If Trump really believes that,
idential elections. advice—which administrations have tigation, this has also been the he’s a moron. It’s Russian propagan-
In four of them, sought since Eisenhower—should Republican Party line — an almost da.
the Democratic simply be ignored, a Republican sen- admirably stubborn see-no-evil, hear- Says who?
candidate earned ator said. no-evil commitment to the presi- Everyone. The FBI. The CIA. The
JEFFREY C. BILLMAN dent’s innocence and good intentions Mueller report. Also, let me explain
the most votes. In And so they did. Reality was incon-
three of them, the venient, so they shrugged it aside and that has invented strawmen and how servers —
Republican won anyway. invented their own. conspiracy theories and off-the-rails They’re the ones who spied on
Both Republican presidents of my That feels like the story of 2019— counter-narratives only to see them Trump’s campaign. It’s in that report.
adulthood, in fact, were elected by the story of Robert Mueller, of debunked time and time again, all The inspector general’s report? Did
minorities. They benefited from a Ukraine, of impeachment, of Brexit, the while muddying reality’s waters. you read it?
constitutional anachronism and went of the fake border-wall “emergency,” Then again, that was the point all No.
on to inflict grievous harm to our of the resurgence of white national- along. That’s not what it said.
country. The first lied us into war, ism: It was the year truth lost and Over Christmas, I got into a con- In the real world, the evidence of
allowed his goons to operate a torture b.s. prevailed. versation with a boomer relative Trump’s malignancy—his unfitness
regime, let a major American city By year’s end, the bull didn’t even about Ukraine. This isn’t someone for office, his immoral character, his
drown through incompetence and need a foot grounded in the real who reads random things on the corruption, his lust for power and
neglect, allowed lobbyists to plunder world. After the editor of the mag- Internet or even has a Facebook erosion of democratic norms — is
the federal bureaucracy, then crashed azine Christianity Today — a pub- account, nor is this an uncurious or undeniable. But when bullshit wins
the global economy on a scale not lication founded by the late Billy unintelligent person. And yet, the — when the torrent of nonsense
seen since the Great Depression. Graham that writes about things disinformation had permeated. makes it hard for normal people who
The second has been so crass and like “end times ecology” — called for The conversation went something don’t obsess over government reports
narcissistic that we’ve retconned the Trump’s removal from office on the like this: to separate the real from the crazy,
first into a decent human being. (He grounds that he is “grossly immoral,” What’s the difference between Joe when a major political party goes
gave Michelle Obama a cough drop the president went on a funny-if-it- Biden threatening to withhold money all-in on any invented reality and the
one time. Wasn’t that sweet?) weren’t-insane Twitter tirade, calling from Ukraine to fire the prosecutor mainstream media treats this invent-
Since taking office nearly three Christianity Today a “far left mag- who was investigating his son and ed reality like a legitimate alternative
years ago, Donald Trump has system- azine” that “has been doing poorly” what Trump did? to the truth—and we no longer oper-
atically rolled back environmental and “knows nothing about reading The prosecutor wasn’t investigating ate from an agreed-upon set of facts,
regulations even as the effects of cli- a perfect transcript of a routine his son, I replied. And we forced the the core of our democracy is in peril.
mate change become undeniable. He’s phone call.” He then said he “won’t prosecutor out because he was cor- As an observer and student of
eviscerated protections for LGBTQ be reading ET [sic] again!” as if the rupt. This was done in the interests American politics, 2019 was a long,
citizens. He’s ripped immigrant chil- latest issue had a regular home on his of American foreign policy. What hard, nerve-racking slog. I fear 2020
dren from their mothers and thrown nightstand. Trump did helped Trump. is only going to be worse.
families in cages. He’s put a white On cue, nearly 200 prominent That’s not what the transcript says. (Jeffrey Billman is the editor of
supremacist in charge of immigration evangelicals reflexively rallied to Have you read the transcript? INDY Week, in Durham, North
policy and catered to white nation- Trump’s banner, chastising the No. Carolina.)
alists. He’s nurtured petty grievances magazine for calling out a menda-
and publicly attacked teenagers. He’s cious, thrice-married, philandering
lied more than 15,000 times so far in libertine who has been accused of
office, according to The Washington sexual assault by two-dozen women.
Post. He also became the only presi- Questioning Trump, they argued,
dent to be impeached during his first meant questioning the spiritual PUBLIC NOTICE
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CAPITAL PEEPS:
The 2020 People Issue
Happy 2020, Lansing! Hard guys can do it, I’m going to do it too.”
as it is to believe, the planet has “It being illegal just didn’t It was a chance to get involved in
completed a full circuit since our make any sense. There are something new.
no side effects. I'm a big I also learned from a young age
last People Issue. It’s time to pluck about cannabis being illegal and its
believer in personal liberties.
another bouquet of interesting medical benefits. I know what it did
If you're not hurting anyone,
humans for your edification and you should just be able to do for me, personally. I used cannabis
delight. Of course, every issue of what you want.” instead of my prescription for back
City Pulse is a people issue, but — Basore pain and just had a better experience
this is a People Issue with a cap- with it.
ital PEEP. Our subjects may not
What was it like watching legal-
be the biggest newsmakers or the ization — especially for recreational
most influential of the year, but use — take hold in Michigan?
they all make greater Lansing a It being illegal just didn’t make
better place to live and they are any sense. There are no side effects.
worth getting to know. We hope I’m a big believer in personal liber-
ties. If you’re not hurting anyone,
that spending a little time with
you should just be able to do what
them gives you a small taste of the you want. And watching all these
fascinating and diverse humanity different people go to jail and watch-
in our midst. Thanks to photog- ing their lives being ruined, that was
rapher Khalid Ibrahim for doing a big part of what motivated me too.
them visual justice. Most of my patients, early on,
were baby boomers. These people
came in hobbled and hurting and
we would always see improvements.
These people were taking Vicodin or
Percocets every day, and now they
Ryan Basore, were off them. I’ve watched people
Cannabis activist be a mess on alcohol, but they smoke
and entrepreneur every day and they’re super produc-
tive now.
R
yan Basore, 43, is the
co-founder of the Michigan What was going through your
Association of Compassion head when your first medical grow-
Centers, the original L ansing ing operation was shut down?
Cannabis Association and Cannabis Outrage. People’s lives and busi-
Patients United. As a member of the nesses were at stake here. I was ready
“Okemos 7,” Basore was one of the to fight it, and then I learned the
first to grow and sell medical mar- hard way that once you get indicted
ijuana in Lansing — namely from in that district, there’s a 99 percent
Capital City Caregivers on Michigan chance of pleading guilty. If I didn’t
Avenue. In 2009, he was arrested take the plea, I could’ve been looking
and federally charged amid a haze at 12 years. It’s leverage. It’s not jus-
of unclear cultivation restrictions, tice. They were threatening to indict
but since his release from prison in my family.
2015, he has remained at the fore-
front of the industry. Basore went on Why did you decide to jump back
to serve as the business development into the industry?
director for the Michigan Cannabis From the minute I walked into
Industry Association, helped to elect prison, it was like I needed to get
pro-pot Attorney General Dana back out there as quickly as pos-
Why did you switch from selling in insurance. I was one of the first sible. I believed in what we were
Nessel and later this year plans to insurance to selling marijuana back licensed caregivers in the state. I
launch a new company, Redemption doing. I went from a career where I
in 2009? started growing it in my house and was extremely unhappy to this new-
Cannabis, in Greater Lansing. I was always an advocate for can- eventually, my friends started to
— KYLE KAMINSKI nabis, but I just sort of got stuck open up businesses. I said: “If these See People, Page 9
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People “‘No potential
for priesthood,’ is
from my students in prison about
their loved ones coming to visit them
and they share their poems. It’s hard
what they wrote on to have a conversation with someone
from page 8 my pink slip.” who has such a mundane life like
— Delgado that. This one guy said that he got
found purpose in life. I look at it as his mom into yoga, now that’s all they
a new opportunity. I just wanted to talk about. He asked me, “Mr. G, can
sell marijuana legally, and we’ve sort you send me some more sequences
of came full circle on this. that I can share with my mom?”
So, you’re about to launch What was unique about this year’s
Redemption Cannabis Co. What’s poetry slam performance at the
the business all about? Michigan Reformatory in Ionia?
We’re starting a nonprofit where We’re at the point now where a
basically a portion of every sale prisoner can be like, “We got this,
is going to help people that have Mr. G.” It wasn’t like that before.
either been — or are still — impris- They don’t have the kind of opportu-
oned for marijuana. We’ll have a big nities to make decisions and they put
announcement soon, but it’s basically this whole thing together. They put
about licensing through high-quality together a house band, decided who
products, really cool packaging and were going to be the MCs, and I saw
messaging. It’ll help the supply the the conversations. It was decision
market here in Lansing with a real making and it was peaceful.
focus on the people and the consum-
er — in ways we don’t always see out Could you paint a picture of what
there right now. growing up in Chicago was like?
I grew up in Little Village. It was
We’ve definitely seen some leg- vibrant but gang infested. The thing
islative evolution in recent years. that stands out to me about my youth
What’s left to be done? is I lived in this neighborhood near
There is still a product shortage Cook County Jail. It’s infamous. It’s
out there. It’s also just about educa- the largest mental health facility
tion. We need to keep pushing this in the country. I was like, “If I have
into the mainstream. Michigan is friends or relatives who are staying
in a unique position right now, and in Cook County Jail, what makes me
I don’t want to be anywhere else. feel so safe?”
We’re a lot further ahead than some So, I attended a seminary high
states and we’re starting to become school. In my sophomore year, I got
known for our cannabis. We need kicked out because I would argue
to build on that. After 2008, peo- during religion class and they just
ple were getting into marijuana not weren’t having it. “No potential
as a hobby but out of survival. It’s for priesthood” is what they wrote on
that pressure, that stress. That’s how my pink slip. Then my life went kind
our industry was born. And I think of downhill from there. I became a
Michigan — like me — is really in teen dad. Didn’t go to college. So, I
this for the long haul here. started to run, and I don’t want this
to be a commercial for veganism, but
something changed.
One day, in a gallery in Chicago,
someone stops me and asks about my
Guillermo Delgado, t-shirt and I say, “Ah, I made it.” And
Painter, teaching he’s like “What a waste.” He hands me
by MSU’s Residential College of Arts Why was it important to teach yoga a business card to a printmaking lab
specialist at MSU and Humanities to teach communi- and poetry to prisoners? and said, “If you want to get serious
ty and socially engaged arts. Now, Because one day, about 50% of about your art, we meet on Saturdays
For Guillermo Delgado, 54, teach- he takes MSU students on weekly them will get out. When they do, at 10.”
ing incarcerated men the art of yoga visits to prisons in mid-Michigan to most will be mentally worse because I went to the collective with these
and poetry was kind of by accident. read and write poetry with young, of the trauma from prison. If they other exhibiting artists. I always had
The same kind of happy accident led incarcerated men. Over the years, learn meditation, yoga and breath- my t-shirts around, because they let
him to start hand painting t-shirts Delgado’s incarcerated students have ing, maybe they won’t react violently me, and people would buy them.
while recovering from complex head hosted poetry slams and crafted when someone touches them unex- Then the Tribune did an article about
trauma, unaware it would lead to a zines, which are being inducted into pectedly in public, because that’s me and it exploded. After two years,
fulltime art career and a ticket back the MSU Library’s collection. what they learned. So, they will come I had enough momentum with the
into academia. In 2008, after exhib- — AUDREY MATUSZ out still with those trigger points. t-shirts that I quit my job.
iting his paintings in nearly 30 dif- Sometimes I ask myself, “Is this
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I wonder what would happen if
“I love the idea that I’m someone proposed the idea of a pub-
harvesting something I’m lic library now.
going to continue to use It would absolutely never happen.
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throughout the year.” They are truly radical institutions.
— Doherty
How did you enter academia? How did that lead to your new job
These folks from a museum asked at MSU?
if I would be interested in teaching a The work I’ve just started, at MSU’s
class for a semester and I was blown LBGT Resource Center, is really a
away by the experience. I started to continuation of that. When I was
do these community art projects and working at CADL, I volunteered at the
then one day, I got invited to RCAH TRUE LGBTQ Teen Support Group,
to talk about my projects. I was a teen support group run by Child
freaked out. They gave me my own and Family Charities. I did some out-
office with my name on it, and I was reach for them as a librarian, helping
just there for one semester. teens and bringing them booklists and
My first week here I made it on the things like that. Shortly after that I
cover of the LSJ for a community art was invited to start facilitating the
project I did with refugees. It was group. I ended up doing that weekly
winter and Dean Steve wanted to for three years, working with teens in
talk with me and I thanked him for the community, mostly in a mentor
the opportunity. Then he said, “Well, capacity.
it doesn’t have to end here.”
What problems did you help them
with?
A number of them were having
Morgan Doherty, trouble coming out or being accepted
for their gender or sexual identity at
LGBT Resource Center school or at home. Some of them were
coordinator at MSU coming out of foster care or other
institutional living situations. These
If you had to summarize what are kids who don’t have the resourc-
Morgan Doherty is all about in one es they need and also don’t have the
verb and one noun, “planting seeds” ability to advocate for themselves.
would come close. (Morgan uses the Sometimes that meant going out to
pronoun “they.”) They are an avid school districts to give a 101-level
gardener, community builder, men- introduction on how to provide effec-
tor to troubled youth, newly desig- tive and humane services for LGBTQ
nated coordinator of MSU’s LBGT students.
Resource Center and co-founder of
Lansing’s trans and queer growing How did you become committed to
collective Tender Heart Gardens on the type of work you do?
the city’s east side. That’s a really difficult question.
— LAWRENCE COSENTINO Let me think about that. For a long
time, I wasn’t doing a lot of the work
How did Tender Heart Gardens get I felt was necessary to create positive
started? change in the world. But once I start-
It started as a project among sev- ed making changes to my life, partic-
eral friends. When I started it, I ularly transitioning and changing my
had, I guess, grander visions of it living situation, I made a much more
being for the entire trans communi- conscious effort to live the way I felt I
ty in Lansing, which, as it turns out, should be living.
doesn’t really exist. There are plenty of
queer and trans folks in Lansing but What keeps you going, gets you
we are not one monolithic communi- a child. I really love librarianship and I recharged?
ty. Since then I have spent a lot more think CADL is doing really wonder- What really recharges me is doing
time focusing on cultivating my own What do you love to grow? ful things in the community. They do the physical work, being outside, in
chosen family, many of whom spend a This year I’m really excited about outreach to underserved communi- the dirt, moving heavy things with my
lot of time with me at the garden. growing lots of dried beans. They’re ties, programming with people who body. I’m fortunate that I’m able to do
just so beautiful through all stages of are incarcerated and their families, that but it really gives me a lot.
Did you start out cold or had you their growth and there are so many unsheltered communities, at-risk
already been gardening? different varieties. I love the idea that youth. Just that they exist, and they Is Tender Heart part of a larger
I grew up doing urban gardening in I’m harvesting something I’m going to are public, free spaces — they’re pro- plan?
Lansing. continue to use throughout the year. viding a service that doesn’t exist I’ve also spent time thinking about
My mom has had a community gar- You worked for 13 years at the almost anywhere else. ways that I can help facilitate land
den plot in south Lansing since I was Capital Area District Library, right?
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with infant and maternal mortality
“Women don’t breastfeed, rates. Our country struggles overall.
cultures do.” Ingham County’s numbers are not
— Fuerst great. Michigan’s numbers are not
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great. We don’t have a good over-
reaching system for moms. One of
access for other groups of people the analogies I like to think of is
who are historically prevented from that when a woman becomes preg-
maintaining land, particularly people nant, it’s kind of like we drop her in
of color. So, to that end, I and sever- a body of water and the goal is to dry
al of my friends who have worked at off. But all these different agencies
Tender Heart have founded a commu- are giving towels and washcloths to
nity land trust called Capital United help. But unless you can find a way
Land Trust and we are going to work to kind of build a raft and lift mom
toward collectively purchasing par- out of that, we’re not doing any ser-
cels of land for marginalized growing vices. EPO provides education, we
organizations all over the city, both for provide support, but it’s certainly
agricultural use and ecological resto- not an all-encompassing service for
ration. I’m really excited. parents. There’s more that’s needed.
That’s biting off a lot, isn’t it? With infant mortality rates higher
It is. I like keeping busy. within lower socio-economic com-
munities, how do you make sure
How are you settling in at your new these services get shared?
gig at MSU? So, it’s interesting. We find the
It’s been a really wonderful transi- lowest of socioeconomic groups,
tion so far. It’s a small team of peo- what we would consider poverty, are
ple working very hard, who are very served through other organizations.
dedicated to our students. When the The Ingham County WIC program
students get back, I’m going to do a is excellent. The parents who are
lot of networking with student groups between poverty and thriving, they
and hopefully create an information make enough money where they
and resource hub for all the varying don’t qualify for services, work with
groups of queer and trans students on us primarily. We offer scholarships
campus. to help them and offer a sliding scale
for families who might not have
You’ll be too busy to dream about $300 to spend on classes.
spring.
I’m still going to dream about In your first year as the EPO direc-
spring. tor, what accomplishment are you
most proud of ?
Baby Café, which is our breast-
feeding support group, had fallen
Krista Fuerst, apart. So building that back up from
the ground was a really big task I
Director of Expectant prioritized first coming in. We’re
Parents Organization seeing lots of parents come, and
that’s a free community resource.
In 2018, USA Today declared One of the things we talk about
that the United States is the most is we live in a breastfeeding desert.
dangerous place to give birth in You don’t see it in America. So we try
the developed world. In the U.S ., and have what I would call an oasis
70-80% of all new mothers experi- for moms to come to where they
ence some negative feelings or mood can be around other breastfeeding
swings after birth, according to the moms. Maybe they’re not comfort-
American Pregnancy Association, opment, so I worked with children dying as much as they are? able breastfeeding in a coffee shop,
and that even goes for successful for most of my adult life. Then I was So I found myself looking for a but they can see other moms there
deliveries. Krista Fuerst, 39, is one pregnant with twins and gave birth part-time job and EPO had an open- breastfeeding openly and maybe get
of the most prominent voices in the prematurely. I went into labor at 22 ing. I got my foot in the door as the a sense that it’s okay.
state combatting the infant mortal- weeks, so around five months preg- administrative assistant. Worked
ity rate and raising awareness on nant, and they both were too prema- there for about a year until the What kind of cultural norms in
issues new mothers face. ture and died at birth. director role opened and I stepped addition to breastfeeding are you
— AUDREY MATUSZ I never thought that would hap- into that. trying to shift?
pen to me. You know it happens, but Another huge difference is our
What experience did you have that you don’t see yourself in that. So it Wow, that’s a big leap. lack of maternity and paternity leave
led you to work in maternal care? got me thinking, we’re well into the Yeah. I really wanted to get in our country. We really don’t allow
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currently?
“We showed dignity I have 120 staff members and
is universal.” about 48 volunteers. We bring in
— Kaguri close to 100 volunteers from around
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the world. People who say, “let me
go see it.” When you get there, we
moms that time needed to establish put you to work. Michigan State
a good breastfeeding relationship. University medical students have
Most of our moms take about six to gone and did studies comparing stu-
12 weeks off and then are expected dents who eat two meals at school
to go back to work for eight to 10 through us, and those who are in the
hours a day away from baby, which community that don’t go to school.
doesn’t support long-term breast- Doctor (John) Brewster (of Okemos)
feeding goals. has come five times and started den-
Another hat that I wear, I’m tal care. Now children have seen
the president of the Lansing area’s a dentist, for many adults this was
HOPING group, helping other par- their first time.
ents who are grieving. That’s the We also have a program against
other spectrum where we have par- gender-based violence, which
ents who have had pregnancy loss or my wife started, called the EDJA
infant loss. We have a monthly sup- Foundation. In 2015, we found out
port group, which I lead. I’m not a that one of our children had been
licensed social worker or therapist. raped by a community member and
We are just there for parents who the next day she was in school. That
need a safe space to and talk and lis- community member went to the
ten. grandmother and said, “I’ll give you
a goat if you don’t say anything.”
That’s what people had done in the
past. We have since placed 40 per-
Twesigye “Jackson” petrators. Every year, we do gen-
der-based violence work in a com-
Kaguri, munity, police against gender-based
Founder CEO of Nyaka violence. A community that is aware
of their rights but also that will pro-
AIDS Orphan Project tect their children.
Twesigye “Jackson” Kaguri, 49,
You’ve created this formula for
was born in Nyaka, Uganda. He
dealing with crises, be it AIDS or
said his father broke a pencil into
mass incarceration, where families
fifths to save money in order to
of color are being destroyed. Do you
afford sending him and his sis-
think about implementing these sys-
ters to school, nearly 7 miles out-
tems locally?
side of their village. In 2001, after
Yes. We are creating what we call
attending Columbia University in
“Nyaka in a box.” Nyaka can work in
Chicago and losing two siblings to
Flint. We have better water in Nyaka
AIDS, Kaguri founded the nonprofit
village than you have in Flint. We
Nyaka AIDS Orphan Project. Now
have better structures of school and
he’s a Heifer International Hero for
the school attendance is better than
building schools in rural Uganda,
Detroit. Lansing, you can take this
as well as libraries, water filtration
“box” and use the kinship system. It’s
systems, farms and a kinship net-
all about giving back and knowing
work with grandmothers to house
where you’re coming from. If all the
orphans. This year, Kaguri and 10
football players and basketball play-
volunteers ran 26.2 miles in the
ers in this country went back into
New York City Marathon, a charity
communities where they were born
event, and raised $100,000 for the
and raised and created Nyaka, we
Nyaka schools. He said it was his was education for all. As 2011 rolled old and her period begins at 11 years
wouldn’t have the ghettos.
biggest accomplishment to date. around, somebody told them that old. The moment her period begins,
— AUDREY MATUSZ there’s a school in Uganda that has she can’t talk about it with anybody,
You aren’t trying to necessarily
high attendance and the person who she’s an orphan. So she can’t go to
stir empathy for people in Uganda,
runs it is going to come and tell you school until the period ends. What
like the old tactics you see on TV.
What was it like addressing the how he has done it. Nyaka has done is provide food at
What are you trying to show?
United Nations in 2011? The speech I gave was about holis- school, sanitary products, health
Sympathy has been used on the
The United Nations, at one point, tic approach. When the U.N. made care, clean water, shower systems,
continent of Africa, and not used
had a program called Millennium that declaration, they were thinking food, clothing, and a farm.
here. The people who take those pic-
Goals. So before 2015, they were of a child in Lansing, Okemos or
tures are equally as human, and most
going to meet these five goals Williamston. They didn’t think of How do you get volunteers for
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friends with a co-worker, Ben Becker.
“When you like your job, So, I’d go see his band, Putty, and Ben
you don’t dread going in was telling me, “Todd, I’m getting
every morning.” ready to move in with this guy, and
from page 12 — Karinen he’s like the one the Lansing punk
rock legends.” And that’s how I met
of the time they are wearing layers of Ken Knott from Violent Apathy. And
clothes. They have deodorant. Then Ken was one of the people that real-
they take a picture of a naked, starv- ly knew what was going on. He was
ing child and put it in The New York booking shows and he was doing a
Times. Twenty years from now, that lot of cool things. I just dove in and I
child looks at that picture. What do started meeting all these cool people.
they think? And that’s the origin.
When you see a commercial for
MSU, advertising for students to Let’s talk about your work with
enroll, it’s going to be smiling faces. WLNS. How did you start your career
They’re going to be walking to the in TV news?
library, holding books. So we decid- I worked for four years at Fox 32
ed to be like MSU. We choose the WFQX up in Cadillac. I was a mas-
better part of them. ter control operator. Basically, you
Even if a kid dies, they need to run TV shows, record TV shows,
die with dignity. We had one kid you produce stuff, and you make
who died because their medication sure that everything airs proper-
was not working. They told their ly. I got the job by responding to an
grandmother they wanted to be bur- ad that said, “Can you count time?”
ied in their purple Nyaka uniform. At WLNS, I’m a maintenance engi-
We could call our resources Nyaka neer, before that I was a master
Make A Wish Foundation, but we’ve control operator. Eventually, they
only lost three children in 18 years. changed that into an operator because
They’ve all been buried in their uni- we combined departments and had
forms because they asked for it. And to start also directing the news.
so, we showed dignity is universal. And it’s amazing. I loved directing the
If we don’t do it for the people, my news. It was always interesting. There
people, where I was born and raised, would be times that you would get
who else is going to do it? really aggravated, but you always had
to be in the moment. And plus, when
you like your job, you don’t dread
going in every morning.
Todd Karinen,
Metal guru and You play drums in several bands
like Jackpine Snag and put out
behind-the-scenes albums with your label Silver Maple
newsman Kill. What’s that like?
Jack Pine Snag started in Joe Hart’s
Todd Karinen, 46, didn’t move to basement in 2010. My old band
Lansing until he was 28. Karinen
MK-Ultra Culkin was ending, and
grew up in Lake City, a small isolat-
ed town near Cadillac with a pop- the bassist, Nicholas Merz, and I were
ulation of only 836. When Karinen asked to play with Joe, because we
finally arrived in Lansing, he knew knew him from a band called a bluesy,
he wanted to be involved in the music garage band called The Chairman. Joe
scene. A few gigs later at Mac’s Bar, said, “I got this project. Do you guys
and Karinen was in deep. Today, he want to try jamming?” So just went in
plays in several bands, such as The his basement, and everything clicked.
Jackpine Snag and Hordes, while It was so easy. We’ve been through a
managing a DIY metal label known
couple of bass players, but next year
as Silver Maple Kill Records. Karinen
balances this with a career in televi- we’ll have been together for a decade.
sion news, where he works behind- Silver Maple Kill started in 2009
the-scenes at WLNS as a maintence as way of putting out the MK-Ultra
engineer. And Karinen still finds the it focused in East Lansing, and I was Bar, so I called up and I asked, “Hey, Culkin CD. Tom Muth, from
time to be a devoted husband and listening to the radio station. I was where’s Mac’s?” He told me, “Well, Collegeville Textbook Co., played in
father to four children. listening to The Impact, and I used it’s out on Michigan Avenue and it’s a band called Red Swan. He had his
— SKYLER ASHLEY to listen to The Afterglow a lot on really easy to see, because it has a big own label, and I was grilling him con-
Sunday nights. illuminated record that says Mac’s.” stantly. “How do you this, how do you
How did you get involved with They would play Calliope, they And I said to myself, “Huh, OK. I’ll that?” He told me, “If you want to do
Lansing’s music scene? would play Rosetta and they would go check that out.” something, you just do it.” And that
I knew Lansing had a music scene, play other stuff like Tristessa — really resonated with me.
but a lot like other people who don’t another really lo-fi band. The DJ was So it all started at Mac’s Bar?
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are busy, who are kind of the foun-
“I truly believe that when dation of their family. There are so
people feel good about many poor messages about health
themselves and take care and fitness that I want people to
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of themselves, it becomes understand that it’s a lot more holis-
a foundation for them to do tic than running on a treadmill and
Tell me about your family, do they really amazing things.” cutting back calories. It’s much more
support the wide range of projects — Nagel than that. It’s about feeling strong,
you get yourself involved in? being balanced and taking care of
Oh my God, I would not be where yourself in a way that’s sustainable.
I am without them — especially my
wife. One of the things she told me Would you say you’re a big propo-
once that almost made me cry, was nent of learning to love yourself and
that one of the things she loves most your body image?
about me is how passionate I am If someone likes to have muscles on
about music. I’ll never forget how muscles, I say go for it. If someone
supportive she is. doesn’t really love that, then that’s
their prerogative too. I think the
biggest issue is that I don’t think it’s
anybody’s business what kind of phy-
Jennifer Nagel, sique somebody maintains. Unless
Fitness expert, business it’s your body, commenting on other
people’s figures and physiques is real-
owner ly not your business.
Born outside of Chicago, fitness
What advice do you have for some-
trainer Jennifer Nagel, 41, first
body who’s nervous about commit-
moved to Greater Lansing to attend
ting to a fitness regime?
Michigan State University. After
I tell people if this is something
earning her bachelor’s in food sci-
that they really want, they have to
ence, she continued her degree at
think deeply about why they want it.
University of Michigan-Flint, where
What is the benefit? And it can’t be
she obtained her master’s. Nagel
something superficial. It has to be
returned to Lansing to work for MSU,
something deep that you’re connected
holding that position for 15 years
to emotionally. Losing five pounds is
before setting off to start her own
not deep enough. Being alive for your
online women’s fitness and nutrition
children, or setting a great example
company, Figured Out Fitness.
for health and fitness for your fam-
Through the years, Nagel decided
ily, That’s kind of getting closer to a
to stay settled in Lansing with her
deeper, emotionally connected “why.”
husband and four children because
of the charm supplied by its diverse
What are the challenges of running
neighborhoods, citing REO Town,
your own business and being your
East Lansing and Old Town as some
own boss?
of their favorite places to frequent.
It is the hardest and most fun thing
She is also fond of Lansing for its
that I’ve ever done. Everything is on
racial diversity, explaining it was
your shoulders. I’ve learned to truly
important to live in a community
have discipline in my own work. I
where a mixed-race family could feel
have to create the big plan, the strate-
safe and comfortable.
gy, and I have to implement the strat-
— SKYLER ASHLEY
egy.I also must have the discipline to
do the things every single day that
What drew you away from your job
grow my business and help my cli-
at MSU to focus on your passion full
ents. It’s been a really fun discovery
time?
process.
I had a great conversation with ning and facilities. I have met amaz- means to you?
one of my colleagues. We talked ing people. But I just felt like I wasn’t I think the fitness industry tends to
about how after 20 years at a job you done yet. There were a lot of things focus a lot on weight loss — the phys-
should start to think about retire- that I’ve always been interested in ical and what’s outside. But fitness Eugene Wanger,
ment. I’ve always considered myself a that I hadn’t had a chance to pursue. and nutrition, for myself, has been a
pretty young woman, so when some- And I also love the idea of being my way to help build confidence, a way Death penalty opponent
one said that to me I realized I had own boss. I come from a family of to help me have energy and feel good.
a really great career at MSU, I had entrepreneurs, so I just think it’s in I truly believe that when people feel The number of states forbidding
great opportunities and I was able to my blood. good about themselves and take care capital punishment has grown to 21,
do a lot of wonderful things. I spent of themselves, it becomes a founda- plus the District of Columbia, but
time as a director of sustainability; I You talk about elevating your cli- tion for them to do really amazing thanks to attorney Eugene Wanger,
spent time as our director of strate- ents to make breakthroughs in their things. Michigan is still the only state where
gic initiatives for infrastructure plan- lives. Can you elaborate on what that I typically work with women who See People, Page 15You can also read
