SUNDAY, Aug. 17 — It’s hard to believe that Lansing had a newspaper man who was roundly admired, imitated and loved as a writer, as a human being and even as an editor, but there was such a person — Mark Nixon, who died Thursday (Aug. 14) at 76.
Nixon’s witty, no-nonsense prose was best known to City Pulse readers as half of the “He Ate/She Ate” restaurant review series, but he spent most of his career with the Lansing State Journal.
“You get kind of jaded in the news business, but Mark never got cynical,” retired longtime Journal photographer Bruce Cornelius said…