Letter From Michiana: Invasive species
As I weed, I am reminded again about the extent to which nature has become a design proposition, dependent on human agency and, I hope, humility. For, when it comes to invasive species, we are the most invasive of them all.
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Letter From Michiana: Plastics!
Microplastics, the unnervingly sturdy specks left behind by our packaging, are circulating through the food chain. They are, in other words, inside of us — second nature indeed.
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Letter From Michiana: The Fair Oaks Farms Fiasco
(I) watched the surreal spectacle of cows being milked by machines as the creatures rotated on a stainless steel lazy susan the size of a flying saucer.
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Letter From Michiana: Waco Brothers bring down the thunder
Music like this was meant to be experienced in tight spaces, up close, where the energy is immediate and unconditional.
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Letter From Michiana: Turbid discoloration
The juxtaposition of U.S. Steel and Lake Michigan invites us to contemplate the extent to which our world is designed.
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Letter From Michiana: Along the Red Arrow Highway
Road conditions notwithstanding, it’s easy, on a sunny afternoon, to imagine yourself behind the wheel of an old time roadster, headed for a rendezvous in some road house where the jukebox is playing big band and blues.
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Letter From Michiana: Why’s You Come Here?
The first time I moved to Michiana — to Michigan City, Indiana — it was 1980. Everything about that move was counter-intuitive… I was moving from northern California…a state filled with Midwestern exiles.
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Letter From Michiana: Legalizing Cannabis in Indiana (Don’t Hold Your Breath)
Hoosiers like to say that Indiana waits. Waits, that is, for other states to make changes and adopt new-fangled ideas so that we don’t have to. This attitude is promoted by many of our reigning elected officials, who like thinking of Indiana as the cracker barrel philosopher of states, the winking codger who spits and […]
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Letter From Michiana: Weird Spring, weird climate
The lake’s cycles can seem hard to predict. They happen and people get used to them, forgetting that things are bound to change. Now, though, there’s a wild card that’s put the old certainties in a new light — make that a strobe light: climate change.
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Letter From Michiana: Mayor Pete
His eclectic personal story seems uniquely suited to our moment…he can, in other words, speak personally about a variety of experiences in ways most other candidates can’t.
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