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WE THE PEOPLE
Broken: The Public Trust
“Compliance Assistance”: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Bulldozing Residents
How the Big Boys Get Away With It
Don’t Dump on Us
Needed: True Leadership
Invaded by Livestock Factories
Shut Up and Take Your Hazardous Waste Well
Electrifying Win in Monroe County’s Milan Township
Friends of the Crystal River Persist for 14 Years, and Win
People Power
Ending the Mismatch: Effective Organizing in Your Community
Planning and Zoning Basics
Guard Your Master Plans
Resources
TRANSPORTATION
New Direction Curbs Road-Building Binge
Dead End Road? State Stalling on Transportation Reform
LAND STEWARDSHIP
“Farmland Preservation” Proposal a Sprawl Subterfuge
Lansing Transfers Public Assets to Private Interests
GREAT LAKES SHORELINE
Legal Sandstorm
Good Laws Undermined
FROM THE FIELD
LETTERS TO THE INSTITUTE
DISPATCHES
MEMBER SNAPSHOT:
Detroit Visionary
AT THE INSTITUTE
Dynamic New Board Member
New Staff: Talented, Versatile
Annual Regional Meetings in September
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left to right: R.P. Lilly, Helena Lilly, and Verle Wilhide, at the site of a proposed hazardous waste injection well in Romulus; Don Moore and Georgia Boerma, working to protect Lake Michigan sand dunes in Berrien and Van Buren counties from mining; U.S. flag at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans; Sue Harris, on the site of cleared woods near her home that she fought hard to save; Janice Joseph and Larry Hands, objecting to the huge waste of money and ruinous effect on neighborhoods of expanding I-94 in Detroit; Joyce and David Petrakovitz, fighting to protect Cadillac’s air quality from tire burning at a waste to energy incinerator; Lac La Belle near the Keweenaw’s Bete Grise, where proposed condominium development threatens Lake Superior coastal wetlands; Some of the people in Mecosta County oppressed by overwhelming stench from hog factories. Back row, left to right: Jacob Wood, Deanna Wood, Bruce Sangen, Lester Cramer, Carl Rundquist, Clarice Rundquist, Robyn Wood. Front row: James Wood, Rachel Wood, Linda Cramer; John Tomlinson, who helped organize a successful referendum in Monroe County’s Milan Twp. to keep 1,000 acres of farmland from becoming industrial; Paul Bruce, who helped organize the defeat of the US-23 extension near Alpena, at the site where the highway would have crossed the AuSable River; Bruce Jones, leader of the effort to protect Detroit’s Humbug Marsh complex, on the Detroit River.