the other project we see coming are seven streetscape improvements associated with 45 lansing and the construction of the guy plays park. this is the star of today, which everyone is going to think it's because i worked on it so much. but the hayes street to way project is very surprising because it's one of those ideas that came out of the plan that was community-driven. also it was the first project we have worked together to identify as a priority and before. it was also a super low-cost project, which is unusual. that is not the case for most of the project. in the market octavia plan, and going to focus on that area. there's a lot of work happening. these maps show the expendituress the projects. what we building with impact the money? you can see some work on market street and some work on some major intersections along market and a bicycle lane work. this is what we are programming impact fee money for. but a lot more work is happening with non-revenue -- non-impact the money revenue. bill little orange pies -- if it was a full circle, that means the impact the money is paying

school bus on a ride through weather science and a kicks up a storm exhibit at the science center in lansingichigan. that is your "early today" event of the today. >> you're like the mayor of science centers, bill. thank you. >>> here is a look at the headlines in entertainment. >>> a new feud appears to be brewing. madonna won best song at the golden globes on sunday beating elton john. his husband david lashed out on facebook saying her victory speech was, quote, embarrassing in its narcism. quite the feud here, guys. tone it down. while the two singers have always had a rocky relationship, this latest bitterness stems from madonna's recent criticism of his friend lady gaga. >>> o.j. simpson sits in his big house he is about to lose another. according to tms, his miami four-bedroom home is being foreclosed on. >>> a newly discovered horse fly in australia was to delicious. researchers named it after none other than beyonce. bootielicious was the title of a song when she was with destiny's child. >>> in nearby camp verde, one child laid the groundwork. it was the town's first celebration of

collaborations between governments and the first award out of this pool was to grand rapids, flint and lansing to joint process their income tax returns. the $550,000 award they received resulted in over $2 million of savings over the next nine years. this exercise was due in great partnership of the legislature and i especially thank representative mark lemette for his effort on this. we completed much of our education reform package, as i said earlier, our current standing of only having 17% of our students being college ready is unacceptable. our children are our future, and we need to make sure they are not just college ready, but career ready. we need to start an early childhood and finish with lifelong learning, whether it's college or vocational training. we launched the office of great start to focus on our youngest children. i want to thank the foundation committee for helping championship early childhood education. teacher tenure reform was accomplished. now we have a better system to support our teachers, recognize their critical role and create an environment that supports their su

. >> mike: not just cousins too, an entire senior class that changed the culture in east lansing, and a program that has to battle michigan in state, and ohio state. recruiting. they've gotten back in the right direction thanks to that group of seniors. a great play made especially that young man who represents student athletes as well as anyone in the country. kirk cousins. final score, michigan state 33, georgia 30. the rose bowl is under way. for our entire crew, mike tirico saying good-bye from tampa. this has been a presentation of espn the worldwide leader in sports. >>> i'm kelly swoope. thanks for joining us. the murder rate is the lowest it's been in three decades. it's a story you can't simply tell in numbers. >> numbers are a clean an and -- and easy way. there are plenty more stories to tell between the numbers. there has been much made about numbers in the past few days. baltimore saw the lowest homicide right since 1997, only 196 in 2011. while certainly no cause for celebration, the stats are a milestone of note for baltimore city police. >> we are on historic grounds i

during his 50-minute speech at the state capitol in lansing he education and tax reform. >> please be seated. thank yo thank you. appreciate it. please have a seat. thank you. well, thank you. it's an honor to be here tonight. i would like to start by thanking several individuals and groups. first of all i want to thank the speaker of the house, jace bu e bulger. wld like to thank my partner in this endeavor, lieutenant governor cally. he's slastnight. i'd like to thank another key part of our team and success, senatevie. to thank senate majority leader witmer. minority leader. minority leader, sorry about that. [ laughter ] i'd like to thank house democratic leader hamel, who is feeling better. the members of the supreme court, welcome. attorney general schuti. secretary of state johnson. i'd like to thank all the members of my cabinet. thank you for being with us. ladies and gentlemen of the legislature, thank you for being here and thank you so much. and i'd like to thank all of my. public service is a for your service to our state. i'm. pi to see several representatives here tonig

. >> and that's how the idea for the lansing west virginia based adventures on the gorge was born.aul approached all three company owners. everyone involved sensed that a deal wouldn't be a simple one. >> i did see some challenges because we were competitors, for sure. and you know, that relationship, we had to work on. >> but soon enough, paul was able to convince them that the key to their collective survival was joining forces. >> there's a point in a family business where the family is necessary for its survival. there's a point in a business where the business outgrows the family. and the rivermen were at that point. >> so they came to an agreement, got a team of investors, and each founding owner maintains partial ownership in the new company. with paul serving as the ceo. while the founding companies all fall under the adventures on the gorge umbrella, the brands themselves live on independently. when i walk around this campus here, i still see logos for all three companies. why do that? it seems more expensive and maybe a bit confusing to your company. >> the loyalty is to

. >> mike: not just cousins too, an entire senior class that changed the culture in east lansing, and a program that has to battle michigan in state, and ohio state. recruiting. they've gotten back in the right direction thanks to that group of seniors. a great play made especially that young man who represents student athletes as well as anyone in the country. kirk cousins. final score, michigan state 33, georgia 30. the rose bowl is under way. for our entire crew, mike tirico saying good-bye from tampa. this has been a presentation of espn the worldwide leader in sports. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- lives cut short after a new year's accident. france and a message that police happened --what message and police investigate what happened. the accident happened in bethesda. iends return to the scene to hold a vigil. >> it was a very emotional afternoon. step out of the way and the memorial that the afternoon vigil. police say they cannot speak to played into this accident, the people here today say they believe this will being a drunken-driving coll

common sense exactly let's go back to where we were twenty thirty years ago my mother used to work in lansing michigan she you know as a voter volunteer volunteer and she would check people's name off the list it came out i used to i was seven years old and stand there and watch her and they and then they go and vote and you know she wasn't looking for a driver's license as she was looking at neighbors of course and i'm sure they are you know hi sally nice to see a guy who wrote you know i'll check you off right here but state after state at the at the push of republicans and alec based legislation for this base legislation are saying no no no we can't do that you've got to have idea it's got to be a particular type of id and older people are going to qualify and students are going to qualify and poor people are going to qualify and people like me who don't own a car and don't need a driver's license are not going to qualify if you don't fly anywhere do you i do i have a passport you have a passport so you've got an idea that i actually actually still have a driver's license but the point is

about 2.1 lansing and peru. backwash of the storm could put down additional snowfall on friday possible monday-tuesday temperature's very cold friday- sunday recovery on monday chile again by tuesday. >> freezing warm weather taking a look back sight and sound of a good day in january for those of the day from chicago tribune. more photos on our website wgntv.com and chicago tribune. chicago bulls got first look at rookie sensation ricky rubio and public league's best basketball player sports next. [ male announcer ] cookies with smooth caramel and chocolate. ♪ ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. whee wheeeeeeeeeeeee! wheeeeeeeeeeee! whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee-he-he-heeeeee! whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee! pure adrenaline. whee whee wheeeeeeeeeeee! everything you love about geico, now mobile. download the new geico app today. whee wheeeeeeeeeeee-he-he-heeeeee! trying to break a streak if you do this you how to do it tonight >> cullom this antheil 27 points fewest in the entire nhl new coach but same players vis

today our state government has its own tactic, expanded emergency manager law that lansing is using to dismantle democracy. it abolishes our right to run our communicates. when our government can do this, we no longer truly have the right to vote. the cities and school district under emergency manager rule are predominantly african american. if emergency managers are appointed for detroit and another city half of the black citizens of michigan will be stripped of local representation, reduced to second class citizens. this new law existed less than a year now, protests in complaint as long as it existed including this town hall event earlier at the detroit church where petitions for a citizens repeal of the emergency manager law were sir circulated. but today honoring dr. king, jr., there was a march on governor rick snyder's house. or rather this was a march on the very well guarded gatehouse well outside his house. joining us now from detroit is reverend david bullock, state director of the rainbow push coalition senior pastor at greater st. matthew baptist church in highland park, m

. >> james, lansing, illinois.e fair, brian ross broke the reverend wright story, james. >> january, madison, indiana. >> no reason to, january. jan, the story has been told. right now anyone can say anything about a famous person that. is wrong. i won't put personal facts on the factor without hard data to back them up and even then there has to be a major reason to put on that kind of stuff. joann, tomball, texas. >> sid holmes, thailand. >> mike and molly, hung of -- hutchington, kansas. from washington. >> probably on their cell phones, right, gary? congratulations. christopher courtney from north carolina. >> i'm in durham on february 3rd, chris. get over there. but we love fayetteville. a lot of military people there. finally, pinheads and patriots. president obama was all over the place yesterday, down in disney world and up in harlem. >> and then to know reverend al green was here. ♪ i so in love with you >> those guys didn't think i would do it. i told you i was going to do it. and the same man did not com

mark lansing is one of them and doesn't trust romney on the core conservative issues. >> i don't thinkis genuine. i think he is willing to watch if it's to his advantage. i've seen too much of that. >> you remember times when you thought about what movie you might take your kids to at the end of the week, as opposed to worrying about putting food on the table at the end of the week. >> romney has solid support from the fiscal conservatives who believe his ceo background is the ticket to turn the economy around. >> as a business person myself, i like to know he can make tough decisions to get the economy back. >> whether a candidate can become president is also an issue for caucus-goers. the latest des moines register poll found romney is seen as the most electable of the republican field. in truth, he doesn't need to wind iowa. just make sure his chief rivals don't. >> one quick question. is tomorrow night more about you doing well or perry and gingrich doing poorly? >> we all hope to do well in iowa. hope we have a great start here. >> as he closes out his long iowa campaign, it appea

we will take you live now to lansing michigan for governor rick snyder's state of the state address.net rate and we are expecting an announcement that michigan has a budget surplus after several years of budget cuts. live coverage here on c-span2. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] >> members of the joint convention, the governor of the state of michigan, rick snyder. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. please be seated. thank you. appreciate it. please, have a seat. thank you. [applause] well, thank you. it's an honor to be here tonight and i would like to start by thanking several individuals and groups. first of all, i want to thank the speaker of the house. [applause] second i would like to thank my partner in this endeavor, lieutenant governor kelly. [applause] he is still speaking to me tonight after last night. i also would like to thank another key partner of our team success, senate

25 or 30 men was assigned to its own room on the enormous second floor above the knee and pulled lansing stage. guests could watch the action below from the balcony or retreat to the vip lounge for a lap dance. electronic music pounded come australoids polls, athletes from the nfl and the cocaine could be had. so sex wasn't on the official men you but behind closed doors she knew what transpired. for a lot of guys coming in from out of town this was the best time they were going to have all year or in their antiyour life. you get leavitt the best strip club and have champagne you are not going to forget the experience when it comes time to choose between the glock and the smith & wesson. in the summer of 1989, he had another marketing brainstorm. he convened a meeting of more than 50 independent regional sales reps and their managers. he gave the group a special assignment. i thought we should pick up the best looking girl from among all 300 club to promote the product at the show, he told me. the shooting and hunting and outdoor trade show is the u.s. gun and ammunition industry's main

we have mary jane in lansing, michigan, on the phone.ew year, mary jane. >> happy new year. >> you've got a stress question. >> i do. how do i stay ontrack? i seem to stay motivated until a stressful situation strikes and then i go right to my cupboard. do you have any suggestions? >> yes. i want you to follow a three-step interference plan. before you reach for food you're going to do three different strategic activities. and hopefully that is going to help defuse the urge to emotionally eat. so first you're going to grab a stress ball and pump it for five minutes. then you're going to get up, do 100 jumping jacks either regular or modified. this is going to help you rechannel some of that frustration and anxiety. the third thing is to make a hot cup of tea that you're going to nurse. this will help to calm you down. so write these three things down on paper, post it on the refrigerate aon make sure it is front and center the next time you go grab for some food. >> good luck. >> our director tried that but when he is doing the jumping j

bruce from lansing, michigan. caller: the comment i have is you have the homeland security -- i am all for jon huntsman, but the homeland security issue is we have people coming across mexico and you guys can not even stop that. and then, you know, how are we going to make money, companies here in the united states, having incentives to keep people working here in the united states? we have people coming from all over the country here. you guys are degrading america. the wages are dropping. thank you. guest: i appreciate your support of governor jon huntsman. if you have some relatives in new hampshire, i hope you pick up the telephone and encourage them to vote. it is a great primary. i think the governor is going to do very well with independents. i think the republican nominee has to do very well in the primary. -- general election. a lot of independent thinking democrats. as governor of pennsylvania, i could not have one without the independent thinking democrats. i think governor huttman -- huntsman appeals t

our first call comes from lansing, mich. on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for letting me speak. i do not understand giving the president this much access to power. it sounds a little bit to me like the sleight of hand that you vote chavez took -- that hugo chavez took to transfer his country into socialism. obama does not seem to ever remember the middle class -- real middle class -- meaning other than union. the rest of us that own small businesses make up the middle class. i think we are getting dumped on by the president. host: let's move on to our next call that comes from port orchard, washington. caller: thank you for taking the call. host: what do you think about the present proposal? caller: i think it is a great proposal. i did not vote for him. i never vote for somebody on the left. if president obama continues down this route of making a saint to doberman, he will get support from both sides of the aisle -- making a sane government, he will get support from both sides of the aisle. host: would he get your support in the fall? ca

michigan governor rick snyder delivering the state of the state address live from the state capitol in lansing >> only those to show their resolve to defend the freedom of the west can be trusted to safeguarded in this challenging turbulence and the unpredictable times that lie ahead. [applause] the decade in this century which opened up must see the lasting strength of liberty, of common cause, the world needs britain, and britain needs us. >> nicknamed the iron lady by the soviet media, margaret thatcher is currently being portrayed on screen by meryl streep. the premises question time. >> some countries in the common market's which i would like to handover, so the financial affairs to a european central bank, and i -- that is not our view. regina west andover further powers from this parliament to of the parties. >> search, watch, click, and share what you want when you want. >> the south carolina primary is this saturday. results and speeches saturday night on c-span. from there it is on to florida with the presidential primary january 301st. on february 4th caucuses get underway in nevada