Letter From Michiana: Climate emergency
The problem isn’t how many miles we get to the gallon, or whether recycling really works. The problem has always been about freedom.
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Letter From Michiana: Local healer
I’m sure there are healers — people with a certain gift, an ability to not simply hold what ails you at bay, but make it better — everywhere. It’s just that I’ve never met one until we moved to Michiana.
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Letter From Michiana: Another spill
After having their drinking water threatened yet again, they must have their doubts. Do they have more in common with Yellowstone, or Flint?
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Letter From Michiana: Chicago Imagists, still honking
The decided otherness of the Imagists’ defiant Midwestern aesthetic has always been a great honking aspect of their art.
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Letter From Michiana: Indiana’s Environmental Management = Fish Kill
A blast furnace closed water loop at steelmaker ArcelorMittal failed, spilling dangerous levels of cyanide and ammonium-nitrate into the Little Calumet River, which then made its way toward Lake Michigan.
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Letter From Michiana: When the bridge goes up!
It’s August, time for things to get a little squirrely.
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Letter From Michiana: Not Wrigley Field
This year 70 teams, with names like Son of a Pitch, Speedy’s Chickenheads and the Ambassadors of Plastic took part.
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Letter From Michiana: Indiana’s DNR keeps its head in the sand
Instead of helping towns like Long Beach explain to property owners what the Supreme Court ruling means regarding their property or, for that matter, even fully informing themselves and their staff members about the state’s history and law, let alone enforcing that law, the DNR has buried its head in the sand.
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Letter From Michiana: DNR AWOL
This week, the DNR will hold public hearings in Michigan City regarding the plowing of dunes and other construction impinging on public trust land and potentially violating the Federal Clean Water Act. It will be interesting to see who shows up.
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Letter From Michiana: Marram grass
We’re fortunate at our end of the beach. We still have foredunes, the deep banks of marram grass-covered sand that serve as a buffer between the beach, where the lake level has reached a record-setting height, and peoples’ lakefront homes.
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