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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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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Suburbanization could efface the remarkable compound of urban grit and natural beauty that makes Michigan City unlike any other community in Michiana.
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Everyone is trying to hold on and position themselves for the coming boom.
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The response is often not to ask what might be done to conform to local standards, but to sue.
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If all politics, as former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill famously said, is local, politics up in Northwest Indiana’s Michigan City is also microcosmic.
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