Great Lakes Commission
Michigan House Republicans have unilaterally blocked about $8.3 million in spending aimed at helping residents of Flint deal with the long-term fallout of the drinking water crisis, as the GOP […]
London Free Press
The London Knights started strong in their third road game in as many nights, and it was enough to beat the Soo Greyhounds on Saturday.
London Free Press
The London Knights don’t like mid-week road games. For the second straight Wednesday, they surrendered multiple first-period goals and a ton of early shots. It hurt them in Guelph Nov. 5 and cost them again in a 3-2 defeat to the Flint Firebirds before 2,932 at the Dort Financial Center. The Firebirds scored twice in […]
London Free Press
The Knights managed to eliminate some demons that haunted them through their first four games.
Great Lakes Echo

By Clara Lincolnhol 
On a cool and cloudy summer day, Michigan high school students recently drove the car they’d been engineering for months around the block and parked it in front of the state Capitol. The three wheeled, sharply angled, gray, white and black camo-print car seats two people and is powered by solar-charged batteries.

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Great Lakes Echo

By Elinor Epperson Capital News Service It’s been one year since Michigan Democrats introduced legislation that would significantly change the state’s environmental regulations. But those bills are stuck in committee. Election distractions, negotiation, and a slim Democratic majority in the state House have kept a suite of polluter-pay bills in limbo, according to environmental advocates […]

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Great Lakes Echo

By Elinor Epperson Capital News Service It’s been one year since Michigan Democrats introduced legislation that would significantly change the state’s environmental regulations. But those bills are stuck in committee. Election distractions, negotiation, and a slim Democratic majority in the state House have kept a suite of polluter-pay bills in