LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Churches and speed traps an unholy alliance?

If a cop hides in a church parking lot in order to spring a speed trap, is that a violation of the Constitutional separation of church and state?

Please tell us the drug raid netted bigger fish

I’m assuming that when the facts come out regarding Wednesday’s raid of the Green Leaf Smoker Club by the Tri-County Metro Narcotics Squad, surely we’ll learn of some hard-core drug action.

Time to lay funeral processions to rest?

Rick Washburn recently participated in a funeral procession, and was shocked by the “disrespect” displayed by other drivers.

Please help bring the thugs to justice

We sure don’t want last weekend’s senseless outburst of playground rage to set the tone for the whole summer in Lansing.

Your revelry is my hell

I wouldn’t want to have been Jan Watts’ computer keyboard when she banged out her midnight e-mail to me.

Where’s the pot of gold?

I haven’t seen the monetization yet, but the skies over Lansing have hosted some terrific rainbows lately.
Evelyn Burgess took this photo Friday at about 8 p.m.

Hollis: ‘Show me the money!’

Give MSU’s Mark Hollis credit for honesty. At Thursday’s press briefing on the Breslin seat adjustment, the “broken-hearted,” but steadfast, athletic director summed up the “Go Green” philosophy: Large bills, please.

Ignite Lansing, minus the alcohol?

I hear, through the grapevine, that some of the folks over at the TEDx event currently in progress at the Wharton Center want to meet me — and not necessarily to get my autograph.
Some of them are still seething, it seems, over my criticism in March of a similar event, Ignite Lansing.

Yellow lights too subtle?

Regarding the school bus accident in DeWitt Township Friday … maybe yellow lights have lost their meaning. Maybe they require too much discretion.

Out of the mouths of politicians …

Sorry, Mom; I misspoke when I told you I didn’t chop down the cherry tree …