News Roundup: City Manager Put on Leave, ELPD Releases Shooting Footage

The U.S. Department of Justice says it will send election monitors to East Lansing for the August Primary Election

This week on East Lansing Insider East Lansing Info’s Managing Editor Lucas Day talks with former East Lansing City Clerk Marie Wicks about letters the U.S. Department of Justice sent to three municipalities in Michigan, including East Lansing, saying it would be sending election monitors for the August Primary Election.

Men’s mental health and the male loneliness epidemic

On this week’s episode of East Lansing Insider East Lansing Info Reporter Dustin DuFort Petty talks about men’s health and how men’s mental health has long gone unaddressed and what communities can do to address it with Michigan State University Researcher Gabriel Johnson.

East Lansing Parts Ways With City Manager Robert Belleman

On this week’s episode of East Lansing Insider East Lansing Info editors Anna Liz Nichols and Lucas Day go over the timeline of events that led the City of East Lansing to part ways with City Manager Robert Belleman after a city employee accused him of sexual harassment and abusive workplace behavior.

LGBTQ+ history in East Lansing

In honor of Pride Month, East Lansing Info Reporter Dustin DuFort Petty talks to Tim Retzloff who teaches history and LGBTQ studies at Michigan State University. On this week’s episode of East Lansing Insider the conversations surrounds the city’s relationship with its LGBTQ+ residents, outlining the feelings of otherness from university students in the LGBTQ+ community and how that history impacts the city to this day

A conversation about communication in the city with former East Lansing Mayor Aaron Stephens

Amid a series of controversies and questions surrounding transparency and accountability in the City of East Lansing, former East Lansing Mayor Aaron Stephens talks with East Lansing Info Managing Editor Lucas Day about the importance of proper communication with residents.