Lansing will survive; we are picking up some high tech with MSU's supercollider and other projects but the haves/have nots gap is widening so fast you can actually see it which is not a good thing IMO. The war had helped with the manufacturing of the new IED vehicles.

About the lights, its a common joke that someone here flicked the switch in May of 2006 because it really what it looked like a boom went bust in 60 days.