Capital News Service (Michigan) Capital News Service (Michigan) The Capital News Service (CNS) is a wire service based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. CNS covers the state capital in Lansing for various member papers from September to early May. The circulation of the combined member papers is one of the largest in the state—larger than the "Detroit Free Press". The service is headed by Eric Freedman, a Pulitzer-winning reporter formerly of "The Detroit News". Correspondents are selected from juniors, seniors and master's students in the School of Journalism by an application process. CNS was founded in 1981 by Michigan Journalism Hall
Lansing, Kansas a hospital steward in the 7th Kansas Cavalry. Following the Civil War, he earned a position at the new state penitentiary in Kansas as a hospital steward. He later resigned and opened a general mercantile store, which held the post office and an apothecary business, in the area called “Town of Progress”. “Doc Lansing”, as he became known, and his friend John C. Schmidt became co-owners of of land that was platted into town lots in 1878; they named the area “Town of Lansing”. Lansing did not become an incorporated city until 1959. The Kansas State Penitentiary, later renamed the