Staffing, morale concerns as Northern Michigan national parks prepare for summer

Interlochen Public Radio
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has approximately two-thirds of the seasonal staff it typically needs to welcome more than 1.5 million visitors over the next three busy months.
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Michigan’s fight against Lake Erie pollution didn’t work. What happens next?

Michigan’s fight against Lake Erie pollution didn’t work. What happens next?
Great Lakes Commission
Michigan and its neighbors have missed a 2025 deadline to curb the farm pollution that feeds toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie, despite 10 years of work and millions […]
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After ice storm’s devastation, a long road ahead for those who rely on northern Michigan forests

Interlochen Public Radio
By some estimates, tens of millions of trees could be damaged.
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The lights are coming back on. How can utilities prepare for next time?

Interlochen Public Radio
With more ice storms expected in the decades ahead as the climate changes, utilities are trying to figure out how to be ready for the next ice storm.
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COMMENTARY: Attacks threaten Canada-US teamwork on Great Lakes

COMMENTARY: Attacks threaten Canada-US teamwork on Great Lakes
Great Lakes Commission
The executive director of FLOW (For Love of Water), a law and policy center in Traverse City, Michigan, says the partnership between Canada and the United States regarding the Great […]
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Some tip-of-the-mitt counties waiting to spend opioid settlement dollars

Interlochen Public Radio
As millions of dollars flow to Michigan communities from opioid distributors, some up-north counties are electing to wait to start spending.
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BRIDGE: See how much your Michigan community will get in opioid settlement funds

Interlochen Public Radio
Michigan counties, townships and cities will split about $725 million in opioid settlement funds over 18 years, with communities harder hit by the opioid crisis receiving more money per capita.
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Maritime Time: Yemeni mariners on the Great Lakes

Interlochen Public Radio
Great Lakes sailors can trace their roots to a variety of countries, including Yemen.
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A lawsuit in Benzie County, plus a look at sea lamprey and sauna fest

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Each Monday on Morning Edition, an IPR journalist brings you up to speed on what’s going on in northern Michigan, and what IPR is working on this week.
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Is Lansing headed toward its own constitutional crisis?

Interlochen Public Radio
The final legal briefs were filed this week in a lawsuit that pits state Senate Democrats against House Republicans for failing to send bills adopted by both chambers to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Is this leading the state Capitol toward its own constitutional crisis?
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Vasa likely won’t need new low snow contingency plan — this year

Interlochen Public Radio
Organizers were forced to cancel or scale back the event in recent years. So they decided to make a plan for when the weather didn’t cooperate.
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