Local & State - The New Citizens Press

Letter from Fukushima: A Vietnamese-Japanese Police Officer’s Account

Rina Risper15 years ago012 mins

On March 11, 2011, the strongest earthquake hit Japan and one of the top five largest earthquakes in the world since seismological record-keeping began. A tsunami followed with waves of up to 33 ft. The disaster left thousands dead and inflicted extensive material damage to buildings and infrastructure that led to significant accidents at two major nuclear power stations.

East Lansing Ministry Brings Humanitarian Help to Rural Ghana

Rina Risper15 years ago09 mins

Dr. Mona Reide in Ghana during one of her many visits to impoverished areas in the world.

ACCRA, GHANA — Dr. Mona Reide is the senior pastor of Grace International Outreach Church, located in East Lansing, MI. The church and the pastor are members of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW). As church member Ishmael Odamtten often says “we are small but powerful.”

Your Other 8 Hours: The Quickest Way to Radically Improve Your Life: Use Radical Change

Rina Risper15 years ago07 mins

By Robert Pagliarini,

Tribune Media Services

What do the iPad, the band Nirvana and the Fosbury Flop have to do with your professional and personal well-being? They certainly don’t represent anything just a little different or just a little better. They all represented radical change — they operated, sounded and looked completely different than anything that came before them. Their creators didn’t settle for incremental change — slow, steady improvement — but instead radically changed the rules. It wasn’t about doing a few things better.

New shopping site- Wheretogetit

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

By Aisha Sims

I know one of my biggest shopping issues is finding items that I like in the store or online boutique. Sometimes I’ll be browsing through a magazine or watching television and I’ll see a cute piece that I’d like to own but I have no clue where to start looking. I found out about this really cool website where you can post a picture of an item that you covet and people can give suggestions on where to get it.

Do you have an opionion? Your letters 10-5

Rina Risper15 years ago04 mins

Before even trying to tackle a $15 to $20 million deficit based on Mayor Bernero’s worst-case scenarios, City Hall decided to use fear mongering and extortion to scare voters into passing an outrageous 26% to 31% tax hike and Headlee override as property values plummeted by an average of more than 10% this year.

Community Resource Connection

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

By Latasha A. McWright

TNCP Guest Writer

This month of March, many of us are in the middle of our New Year’s weight loss resolutions and summer is right around the corner! Healthy eating habits have to become a priority for the whole family! This is not only good for your weight loss goals, but also your general health and wellness. We’ve located a few programs in our community that can help improve your health, diet, as well as managing your meals on a budget!

Listen to Your Body

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

By Tom Lagana and Laura Lagana

from “The Quick and Easy Guide to Project Management”

Know what works best for you. There is more than one recipe for success, so sculpt it to meet your needs and lifestyle. Keep an open mind and consider that, regardless of how ridiculous your approach sounds to someone else, if it works for you it doesn’t matter what others think.

Videoview

Rina Risper15 years ago06 mins

By Jay Bobbin

Tribune Media Services

“THE TOURIST”: The star power and the scenery are the main attractions of this romantic adventure with definite echoes of “North by Northwest.” Johnny Depp plays a bookish American who’s visiting Europe when his path crosses that of an attractive mystery woman (Angelina Jolie). She quickly draws him into a dangerous case of mistaken identity that plays out in such cities as Paris and Venice. The supporting cast includes Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton and Rufus Sewell. DVD extras: two “making-of” documentaries; audio commentary by director Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck; outtakes; alternate title sequences. *** (PG-13: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray)

Rhapsody in Blue — or Cream or Pink: Hydrangea Bushes Offer Impressive Palette to Gardener

Rina Risper15 years ago07 mins

The billowy flower heads of the hydrangea come in a wide array of colors ranging from blue to pink to creamy white. The pH of the soil determines whether these attractive shrubs bear blue or pink flowers.