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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 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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	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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	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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	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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	September 19, 2007 Mining Company Lobbied Hard in U.P., Lansing As a big mining company’s push for permission to dig a sulfide mine beneath an Upper Peninsula trout stream heads for hearings in Lansing today, ...more
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	September 14, 2007 Will State Allow Sulfide Mining Under U.P. River? When a mining company proposed digging a sulfide mine directly underneath an Upper Peninsula river, Michigan had no rules for regulating mining of that toxic ...more
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	September 6, 2007 Wind Shift With 3,100 miles of breezy Great Lakes shoreline, dozens of manufacturing plants capable of turning out turbines, blades, and gears, and a long tradition of ...more
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	August 10, 2007 Michigan’s “Energy Epicenter” Turning Black, Not Green Governor Granholm’s efforts to make Michigan the “alternative energy epicenter of America” is making progress, but not nearly enough to keep ...more
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	July 25, 2007 Report: Saugatuck Dunes Sale Could Trigger Land Rush Last year’s sale of an expanse of globally rare, undeveloped Lake Michigan beach and dunes at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River signals a possibly ...more
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	July 23, 2007 Presque Isle Officials Approve Mystery Coal Plant A year after two local governments granted broad zoning approvals to build a coal-fired electrical generating plant at the edge of the once-thriving Great ...more
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	July 18, 2007 Jumbo Investments Revitalize Grand Rapids This city’s elite business leaders and financiers, an unusually collaborative group of immensely wealthy families, have spent a decade combining their ...more
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	July 5, 2007 Big Grayling Park Would Need Big Tax Dollars The huge amusement park that developers want to build on 1,800 acres of public land near Grayling will require changing state forest boundaries, securing deeds ...more
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	June 28, 2007 Secrecy Cloaked Proposal for Huge Theme Park Local citizens and officials and the Granholm administration are supporting a proposal to build a 1,800-acre amusement park on nearly three square miles of ...more
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	June 27, 2007 Mayors Push Great Lakes Cleanup, Again Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell will soon host thousands of his Rust Belt colleagues searching for solutions to the Midwest’s economic crisis. ...more
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	June 26, 2007 Clean Energy Standard Talk of Michigan Fair This year’s Michigan Energy Fair was larger and more diverse than the first fair last year. The number of vendors doubled, and the number of visitors ...more
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	June 7, 2007 Study: Cleanup Would Boost Rusty Economy 39,000 jobs. 60,000 new residents. $39 billion in increased economic activity. That's what investing in the revitalization of Lake Michigan's despoiled and ...more
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	May 21, 2007 Dunes’ New Owner Edges Toward Construction Plan The lawyer for an Oklahoma energy magnate, who spent $39.3 million to buy two miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, will describe this week where he and his client ...more
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	April 22, 2007 Forum Tells Michigan: Cuts Won’t Cut It Mark P. Haas, a top Michigan financial official, has thousands of statistics recounting this state’s woeful economic condition. But the one that best ...more
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	April 9, 2007 Saugatuck Citizens Form Alliance to Respond to New Development The Michigan Land Use Institute, in collaboration with a group of residents and public interest organizations from Allegan County, has initiated a new research ...more
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	March 16, 2007 The Denison At the wind-swept place where the Kalamazoo River meets Lake Michigan the sand rises and falls in magnificent fresh water dunes that draw people and wildlife ...more
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	March 15, 2007 Tangible and Intangible Values Lakeshore living is a gift. It deserves an understanding of its tangible and intangible value. It’s easy to recognize the motives of developers who see ...more
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