Letter From Michiana: Governor Holcomb Does Nothing

By David Hoppe There is heavy equipment lined up on Lakeshore Drive, the main thoroughfare in my Michiana town, Long Beach. Workers are trying to keep the road from falling into Lake Michigan. What’s left of the beach in places now looks like a dump, as people have piled what they can, from parachute-sized sandbags […]

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Letter From Michiana: New Year’s Eve

By David Hoppe: I’m not sure when we started. On New Year’s Eve, just after the ball drop, the loving kisses and the sips of champagne, my friend John and I pull on our coats and hats, fill a couple tumblers with the most sincere liquor that’s left in the bar and make our way […]

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Letter From Michiana: Falling leaves

By David Hoppe When we left town to visit our son in Raleigh, North Carolina, for Thanksgiving, the trees around us were still bedecked with plenty of leaves. High winds over the course of the holiday weekend brought almost all of them down. What amounted to a great, russet mattress covered the ground upon our […]

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Letter From Michiana: Long Beach Party wins

A local election like this one can be unsettling. Makes you wonder whether you’re in tune with your neighbors.

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Letter From Michiana: Moon Valley and Stockwell Woods

As kids, we never needed anyone to tell us how special this place was — we could feel it down to the soles of our feet.

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Letter From Michiana: Partying with the Long Beach Community Alliance

The weather was nasty, but people showed up to raise the funds necessary to keep fighting, if that’s what it takes.

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Letter From Michiana: The failure of IDEM and the EPA

Why is it no one seems to care about the poisons being routinely dumped into Lake Michigan?

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