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The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Just a reminder that when New Berlin and Milwaukee struck a deal in 2008 for diverted Lake Michigan water, it came with a pledge from New Berlin that the water would not be sent west of Calhoun Rd., where plans call for land use controls. But now the Calhoun Rd. improvement and widening project is being moved to a faster track - - for budgetary and other scheduling issues. So this is...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A woman whose body was found in Lake Michigan on Monday has been identified by the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office as Frances C. Arts. Arts, 61, lived at a Milwaukee group home and was free to come and go from the facility, police said. Employees of the group home told police they last saw Arts at about noon Sunday.
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Milwaukee police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found Monday morning in Lake Michigan. The woman's body was found about 10:30 a.m. near the Summerfest grounds, according to a news release from the city's police department. The woman's body appeared to have been in the water for some time, police said. Her identity has not yet been determined.
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Waters infected with VHS Lake Michigan Lake Winnebago System
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A lot of noise has been made in recent weeks about President Barack Obama's $5 billion Great Lakes restoration plan, but nobody in the federal government right now is willing to spend a penny so necessary maintenance can be done on the Asian carp barrier built to keep the jumbo jumping fish from spilling into Lake Michigan. The electric barrier, located about 20 miles south of...
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HillBuzz (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In movies, Los Angeles is constantly attacked by flying saucers, massive earthquakes, toothsome demons, you name it. Well, California, brace yourself, because the Charybdis of Lake Michigan, Oprah Winfrey, is leaving Chicago next year to set up show in LA. “There’s just not all that much for me to eat in Chicago. I’ve eaten it all. [...]
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The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Journal Sentinel's in-house conservative blogger stamps his electronic foot over the idea - - the very notion!! - - that Milwaukee might use its Lake Michigan advantages to lure industry and jobs to the City. The Horror. The Horror!
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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Seizing upon this year's 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham 's Plan of Chicago , state legislators and open space advocates on Thursday will make public a series of steps designed to create a new legacy of parks and trails throughout the Chicago area, including new lakefront parkland. In an event called "Our Green Metropolis: The Next 100 Years," Rep. Marlow Colvin, D- Chicago ,...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
At the same time nearly a half billion dollars is headed toward the Great Lakes as part of President Barack Obama's ambitious ecosystem restoration program, nobody at the moment appears to have the dollars to allow the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers to do regular maintenance on the new $9 million Asian carp barrier. That maintenance is needed about every six months and it requires shutting...
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Mae West (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... life, staging the comedy in a series of rooms located in an old historical mansion on the edge of Lake Michigan. • • Mae faced the wrath of the New York City moralists because " Sex " features a brazen unapologetic sex worker, who after a series of misadventures, falls in love and lives happily ever after. Mae West wrote the play for herself because she was no...
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Travels (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... my flight was leaving. I decided to kill some time by walking around the city, i wanted to see lake Michigan, partly because an airfield that's on its shore was featured on the MS flight simulator series as the standard airport, so i really wanted to see the place for real. The airfield went a few years ago and they built a park there instead, but i walked right up to the lake...
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The Political Environment (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... County where you can't find a lot of affordable housing, or get there by bus. In fact: all the Lakefront communities - - Milwaukee, Kenosha, Racine, Manitowoc and points in between need to see their proximity to Lake Michigan and built intake and treatment infrastructure as a regional advantage and national recruiting boon. The West has sunlight - - and there are plans afoot...
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View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I wasn't very productive today because we hit a couple of fantastic bookstores in Mordor on Lake Michigan over the weekend. At the University of Chicago Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, a wonderful catacomb-like grotto with low-ceilinged labyrinthine corridors lined with books, I snagged a few readables. One of those tomes was The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution...
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WWMT.com : News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) - A northwest Indiana development official says he hopes a 10-mile stretch of recreation trail along Lake Michigan can be built within five years to complete a series of trails connecting Illinois to Michigan. The final link of...
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Global Climate Law Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
On October 16, responding to a petition filed by environmental groups, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson objected to the operating permit issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) for BP North America's refinery in Whiting, Indiana . BP is expanding the refinery, which is twenty miles south of Chicago on Lake Michigan, to handle...
