Capital News Service (Michigan) of Fame member Dick Milliman, formerly of the Milliman Newspaper Group. It has also been edited by Hall of Famer Bill Cote, formerly of Booth Newspapers. Correspondents report on state government, politics and public policy for daily and weekly newspapers and online news outlets across Michigan. CNS currently works with publications including: 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
Robert Lansing , Lansing backed Woodrow Wilson in issuing three notes of protest to the German government. William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State following Wilson's second note, which Bryan considered too belligerent. Lansing replaced Bryan, and said in his memoirs that following the "Lusitania" tragedy he always had the "conviction that we would ultimately become the ally of Britain". In 1916 Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence. These agents were initially used to observe the activities of the Central Powers in America, and later to