Fixing roads, filling vacant homes key for Lansing’s future

A lifelong resident of Lansing, Norman Abbott was elected mayor in 2009 and re-elected in 2013. With the two-term limit in place in Lansing, the 75-year old Abbott will leave office in 2017:

• “The biggest accomplishment has been to try to put us back on the financial road to recovery, to take us from a ‘B’ financial rating back up to an ‘A-3’ financial rating, after the recession of 2008…” Please click here to read Lu Ann Franklin’s story in the Times.