Can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Lansing is proving otherwise with new dog-devoted businesses and expansive new city park facilities that pamper our prized pets.

Deep-rooted, cross-cultural traditions take over East Lansing as the Great Lakes Folk Festival kicks off its three-day, $2 million bash in the heart of Spartan country.
 

With the future of the U.S. economy on the line, Bruce Katz, from the DC-based Brookings Institution, is rallying the country's largest 100 metropolitan areas to action, and offering us a gut-check on how the Lansing/East Lansing metro stacks up in the new, global paradigm.

With an eye toward community, leadership and fun, housing co-op students at Michigan State University in East Lansing are forging a paradigm for more sustainable living.

At 25, Ryan Carter embodies the next generation of Michigan's young entrepreneurs. With business partner Dennis Kloss, 42, Carter is taking on risks, working hard, and overcoming adversities that make Michigan's economic transition look like a walk in the park.

Downtown Lansing nightlife has gotten a boost from a host of successful new venues, and the young professional crowd is finding places to let loose in the city. CG's quick guide to the new places, old favorites, and hot picks for a night (or two) on the town.

With a reputation for “homemade” isotopes, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU produces more elite nuclear scientists than any other school but MIT, and helps bring millions of dollars to Mid-Michigan.