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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ingham County announces Lansing City Council Member At-Large, Ward 4 primary winners
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Ingham County has announced the primary winners of the Lansing City Council Member At-Large and Lansing City Council Member Ward 4 positions. Lansing City Council Member At-Large primary winners: led all candidates, receiving 20.32% of the votes, totalling 5,326. received 17.65% of the votes, totalling 4,625. received 17.63% of the votes, totalling 4,622. received 9.66% of the votes, totalling 2,531. Lansing City Council Member Ward 4 primary winners: led all candidates, receiving 56.72% of the votes, totalling 2,371. received 26.34% of the votes, totalling 1,101. The candidates will now turn their attention to the general election, which will be held in November. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Early election results show Schor, Hector headed to November Lansing mayoral election
LANSING — Lansing Mayor Andy Schor will get a chance to win his third term in November but he'll be challenged by Kelsea Hector, a 33-year-old nonprofit consultant and former K-12 educator, With 93% of the precincts counted, Ingham County's unofficial numbers showed Schor and Hector had grabbed the most votes of the five candidates who were running for mayor in the Aug. 5 primary election. Schor was leading with 45% of the Election Day votes. He and campaign manager Jack Behan said they have seen absentee figures showing Schor with upwards of 60% of the vote. The State Journal could not independently confirm those numbers. "We are very excited about the numbers we got," Schor said. "We are proud of everything we've done in the last eight years and we will spend the next three months sharing my vision and hearing what people want." Hector is currently showing in second place, according to the Ingham County Clerk's unofficial figures, with almost 27% of thevotes, well ahead of the other three candidates: Jeffrey Brown, Brett Brockschmidt and David Ellis, who were coming in between 11% and 7% of the vote. The mayoral position is for four years. Schor was first elected in 2017. The election saw more voters than any other mayoral primary in Lansing for this century. City Clerk Chris Swope said there were 12,544 absentee votes, an estimated 2,300 in-person votes at polling locations and more than 160 other early votes for around 15,000 votes cast. The city has around 88,000 registered voters. Check back for updates. Contact Mike Ellis at mellis@ or 517-267-0415 This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Who won the primary election for Lansing mayor? Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Lansing turnout for mayor's race on track to break a record
LANSING — Almost 12,600 Lansing voters cast ballots by 3 p.m. on the Tuesday, Aug. 5, Election Day, approaching - with hours to go - the biggest turnout this century for a mayoral primary election in the city. Lansing Clerk Chris Swope provided the update on the votes cast and Ingham County's election data confirmed the city could surpass the primary election record of 13,271 voters in the 2005 election. Turnout numbers for Lansing mayoral races, according to county data and State Journal archives, are as follows: 2021: 12,879 2017: 12,391 2013: 6,962 2009: 9,618 2005: 13,271 2001: 5,251 There has been a huge change in elections since then: This year's voters aren't showing up to the polls very often. Less than 1,000 people had visited the city's polling locations by 3 p.m., Swope said, in an email. That's less than 8% of the city's voters. There were 11,438 absentee votes counted by 1 p.m. on Election Day, Swope said. Polls close at 8 p.m. and voters in line at that time can finish voting. Find your precinct here: Election Drop Box Locations for Lansing City Voters Only Contact Mike Ellis at mellis@ or 517-267-0415 This article originally appeared on Lansing State Journal: Few voters at Lansing polls by 3 p.m. but early turnout was big Solve the daily Crossword
CBS News
04-07-2025
- Health
- CBS News
Deadly opioid carfentanil reemerges in Michigan, linked to 11 deaths in 2025
Michigan health officials say the state is seeing a reemergence of the potentially deadly opioid carfentanil. Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid, typically used by veterinarians to tranquilize large animals, like elephants, and is not approved for use in humans. State health officials say that so far this year, 11 deaths involving carfentanil have been identified. None of those individuals tested positive for carfentanil alone. Ten of those who died also tested for cocaine, and fentanyl was found in eight of those deaths. The deaths occurred in Ingham, Livingston, Eaton, Genesee, Oakland and Wayne counties. The synthetic drug is a small, white, powdery substance that looks like cocaine or heroin, but officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration say that using even a small amount could kill. "Imagine like a speck of baby powder; that's how much could be a lethal dosage of carfentanil," said Brian McNeal, public information officer with the DEA's Detroit division. "It is a Schedule II drug, meaning it does have medical use, but it is not approved for human use, and it has found its way into the illicit drug supply." Carfentanil is 100 times more potent than fentanyl and about 10,000 times more potent than morphine, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. "Carfentanil is an extremely potent and deadly drug," said Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan. "We're urging people who use unregulated drugs – and their loved ones – to carry naloxone, an easy to administer nasal spray that can reverse opioid overdoses and save lives. Awareness and quick action can help save lives." The DEA says some users mix carfentanil with other drugs like OxyContin or Xanax. "Whether it's heroin, marijuana, or cocaine, it follows the same routes up from our southwest border into distribution hub, like any other business, and then into smaller communities and neighborhood, but the precursor chemicals mainly come from Asia, from China, India into Mexico, where drug cartels are putting these chemicals into the illicit drug supply," McNeal said. Carfentanil was previously seen in the state in 2016 and 2017, with the drug contributing to 107 deaths in 2016 and 111 deaths in 2017. Deaths associated with the drug fell in recent years, dropping to a handful a year in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and then to zero in 2021 and 2022. Health officials say the drug can rapidly cause central nervous system depression, which can lead to quick death, and that because an increasing number of overdose deaths associated with carfentanil also include cocaine, methamphetamine and other stimulants, users may not know those drugs contain carfentanil. Treating a carfentanil overdose can also be extremely difficult, and officials say reversing an overdose may require several doses of naloxone.
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lansing City Council At-Large Candidate: Tirstan Walters
Here are the responses from Lansing At-Large Candidate 2025 Tirstan Walters to the 6 News Pre-Primary Candidate Questionnaire. Website- Facebook- Instagram- Threads- BlueSky- I am proud to serve as an At-Large member of the Lansing Park Board, Vice-Chair and First Ward Representative of the Lansing Neighborhood Advisory Board, and as Vice-Chair of the Ingham County Equal Opportunity Committee. I have had the honor of bridging the gap between these departments and the residents that they serve and I am running for Lansing City Council At-Large to expand my advocacy to citywide issues that matter most to our residents. I graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in Environmental Geography and Economic Geography and I currently work for the State of Michigan as a grant coordinator focusing on gun violence intervention and community policing grants. I previously served as the Ingham County Democratic Party Elections Committee Chairperson in 2024 and have been an Ingham County Democratic Precinct Delegate since 2022. I am focused on improving our city infrastructure to better fund our roads and sidewalks, ensuring that we have safe and supported neighborhoods, bolstering our parks system to encourage and increase recreation and green space for our residents, supporting our small businesses, increasing opportunities for our youth through increased collaboration between the City of Lansing and the Lansing School District, and increasing housing developments to ensure adequate and affordable options for all residents. My accomplishments include assisting our neighborhoods and civic organizations through the neighborhood grant programs and with accessing neighborhood resources, creating Capital Improvement Project (CIP) recommendations and overseeing the creation and funding of the Park Board Grant Match Program, and working to broaden the contractor pool of Ingham County to make it more representative of the population. The role of City Council is to act as the legislative branch of the City of Lansing. The duties of the council are to approve the yearly budget, to pass city ordinances, to advocate for constituent issues, to attend council, committee, and external board meetings, oversee the approval of board and commission appointments, and to work with the administration on policy and budget amendments throughout the year. The role of a City Council member also includes serving in an advocacy role for residents to our county, state, and federal representatives regarding local priorities. As a City Council member I will support additional housing projects, funding additional code enforcement officers to ensure our current housing stock is kept up to date and our red and pink tagged properties are brought up to code, supporting our new form-based housing code to increase housing densification, and working with the Economic Development and Planning Department to make our permitting and inspection processes more efficient for new and existing housing projects. As a City Council member, any disagreements would be addressed on a case-by-case basis. I would work toward expressing my perspective in various ways depending on the circumstance, whether that be discussing those differences during council meetings, constituent meetings, on social media, or in private conversations. I have been able to work effectively with both the current administration and with many current council members on issues involving parks and neighborhoods and I feel that these relationships will allow for meaningful and respectful conversations on issues that there may be disagreement. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
