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	March 31, 2008 Coal’s Soaring Costs: Wind Power’s Warm Breeze The broad, snow-covered ridges south of McBain are just months away from sporting a couple new, permanent fixtures—a pair of 350-foot-tall wind turbines. ...more
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	March 23, 2008 As Lansing Lags, a Rural School Looks Ahead Gary Waterson, a northern Michigan science teacher, knows that the renewable energy industry is growing so fast that companies can't find enough skilled labor. ...more
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	March 19, 2008 N.W. Michigan Growers, Educators Pack Farm-to-School Conference More than 300 people attended an historic conference in Traverse City last week to learn about purchasing, preparing and serving healthy, locally grown food at ...more
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	March 16, 2008 State Law Slows Farm-to-School Progress Here we were, 330 of the region’s professionals in school education, nutrition, and health, working to nudge fresh, wholesome local food into the center ...more
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	March 11, 2008 Grand Rapids Tells Lansing: Yes We Can Michigan's own Henry Ford generated amazing wealth innovating and mass marketing the automobile. But his fortune was an anthill compared to the mountain of ...more
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	March 7, 2008 Raising a New Kind of ‘Eater’ I had breakfast with Marty Heller and Michelle Ferrarese at their farm on the kind of February morning that makes most people want to go back to bed. But they ...more
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	March 3, 2008 Townships: Sprawl, Big Boxes May Be Best Bet for Jobs Like much of northern Michigan, Inland and Homestead Townships suffer from a shortage of jobs and business development. That may be why township trustees want ...more
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	February 29, 2008 As Coal’s Cost Soars, Lansing Warms to Clean Energy Last September, Consumers Energy handed the state a study to justify construction of a big coal-fired power plant near Bay City. But the study is having the ...more
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	February 27, 2008 Two Benzie Townships Making Room for Sprawl The first draft of two Benzie County townships’ joint master plan is attracting some criticism from neighboring governments and a top local environmental ...more
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	February 14, 2008 Grand Vision Workshops Crack the 1,000 Mark Demonstrating intense interest in their future, 600 people showed up last month for The Grand Vision’s most recent workshops. The wide-open planning ...more
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	February 7, 2008 Prosperous Farms, Well-Fed Kids: When Frankfort-Elbert high schoolers staged a “strike” over the quality of their cafeteria food two years ago, their timing was perfect: School ...more
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	February 4, 2008 Feds OK Grand Rapids’ ‘New Start’ Transit Funds Just when it seemed Michigan was hitting a dead end on transit, one of the state’s top bus systems got a hot lead on a New Start: Grand Rapids won as ...more
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	January 31, 2008 Granholm Touts Clean-Energy Jobs Governor Granholm presented a high-minded vision for the future of the energy industry in her 2008 State of the State Address Tuesday night, and urged the ...more
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	January 24, 2008 County’s Secrecy Agreement with Firm Draws Fire When executives from a startup company traveled to Emmet County to talk to local officials about setting up shop at the Pellston Regional Airport, they ...more
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	January 12, 2008 Can Emmet Think Outside the Box? With its charming downtown and great Lake Michigan views, Petoskey is a strong tourist magnet and northern Michigan economic pillar. But looming approval of ...more
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	January 2, 2008 Grand Vision Kickoff Draws Record Crowd The Grand Vision’s kickoff workshop drew a standing room only crowd to Traverse City’s Park Place Hotel. More than 450 people showed up for the ...more
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	December 31, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 3 The challenges that your generation faces will test your ingenuity and generosity. Whether you are a person of faith who believes the Earth is the ...more
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	December 28, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 2 Ordinarily, a backward look at history is a detour into unproductive nostalgia. I am acutely aware of the profound differences between today’s culture ...more
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	December 24, 2007 Udall: A Letter to My Grandchildren, Pt 1 This is the most important letter I will ever write. It concerns your future—and the tomorrows of the innumerable human beings who share this vulnerable, ...more
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	December 12, 2007 Benzie Pushing to Halt Its Crisis Six months after a report warned that Benzie County was losing the confidence of local residents and township governments because of its dysfunctional planning ...more
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	December 7, 2007 Report Offers Route to Cut Petoskey Traffic Five years after a large group of area residents force the state to drop its proposal to build a highway bypass around this northern Michigan city, a new study ...more
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	November 28, 2007 ‘Build It and They’ll Come’ Will the streetcar make a comeback in Grand Rapids? That is the question that local developer Guy Bazzani is considering as civic leaders here investigate the ...more
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	November 9, 2007 Can Benzie Conquer a Big Divide? Facing big cultural divides, a credibility problem, and a revolt by several townships, Benzie County officials are scrambling to rebuild the trust and ...more
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	October 26, 2007 BATA? You Bet! I’ve always loved riding public transportation—the buses and trains that took me to work or conferences in big cities, the people watching, the ...more
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	October 26, 2007 Traverse City Candidates Sound Off The Michigan Land Use Institute queried all candidates for Traverse City commission about their views on a few timely Smart Growth questions including how much ...more
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