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Listen to the Environment Report s coverage of Grand Rapids implementation of natural infrastructure.
Climate change in the Great Lakes region means more intense storms. Already some towns are finding they’re flooding where they never have before. One city in Michigan is finding the solution is nature.
The Joe Taylor park takes the surrounding neighborhood s stormwater runoff and stores it underground until it seeps into the earth.
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The Joe Taylor park is tucked into a small neighborhood in Grand Rapids. The buildings have colorful murals, there’s a splash pad for hot summer days. But you can’t see the really interesting stuff.
Some Michigan propane suppliers switching to rail cars in anticipation of Line 5 closure
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
The Enbridge Mackinaw Station, where Line 5 emerges from underneath the Straits of Mackinac near Mackinaw City, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.The Grand Rapids Press
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Propane suppliers reliant on Enbridge’s Line 5 are transitioning to railroad cars to get their products in anticipation of the oil pipeline shutting down in May.
Several suppliers in Michigan began exploring alternatives when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the end of an easement that allows the controversial 67-year-old pipeline to run beneath the Straits of Mackinac. From Superior, Wisconsin, Line 5 runs east to the Upper Peninsula then southeast to a Rapid River township refinery, near Escanaba, where natural gas liquids from Line 5 are stripped for propane.
Parents hope Ann Arbor can deliver on intent to offer 5 days of in-person school this fall
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
Abbott Elementary student Lia Jewell, 8, learns remotely at Peace Neighborhood Center, 1111 N. Maple Rd. in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
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ANN ARBOR, MI - As an associate professor at the University of Michigan with some experience teaching in the hybrid format this year, Sara Soderstrom understands what public school teachers are going through in balancing remote and in-person learning.
Knowing the importance of the in-person experience, though, Soderstrom held off on sending her youngest son to an early kindergarten program this fall, deciding instead to wait a year to enroll him in kindergarten as progress toward teacher vaccinations and reducing community spread of COVID-19 continue.
9 things you might have missed in Gov. Whitmer’s budget proposal
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announces the reinstatement high school winter contact sports on Feb. 4, 2021 during a press conference.Michigan Executive Office of the Governor
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday kicked off budget season with her budget proposal, which clocked in at a historic $67.1 billion.
It’s the first step of determining how much state money goes where in the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, which runs from Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022.
Some of the toplines included $300 million for bridge repairs, $192.4 million across two fiscal years for programs that assist people with community college costs, and a per-pupil increase of $82 to $164 for K-12 schools.