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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: Controlled burn

By David Hoppe The smell of wood smoke — caressing, rich and warm — filled the air. The bonfires we’d set ablaze hissed and popped.  We leaned on our shovels and rakes and stared into the flames. It was over a year ago that a group of us assembled in Stockwell Woods to wrangle an […]

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