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Lansing city council to continue leadership choice effort

Lansing City Hall photo
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Lansing City Hall

The Lansing city council will try for a fourth time tonight to choose one of its eight members to serve as council president. At the first three meetings, a number of options were considered, but all failed on four-to-four votes.

On one side are Jessica Yorko, Patricia Spitzley, Kathie Dunbar and Tina Houghton; on the other are Jody Washington, Carol Wood, Adam Hussain and Judi Brown Clarke.

Scott Pohl talks with Lansing State Journal reporter Eric Lacy about why the choice of a council president matters.

Scott Pohl has maintained an on-call schedule reporting for WKAR following his retirement after 36 years on the air at the station.
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