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John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, MI — Federal officials are preparing for a series of public meetings to discuss President Barack Obama’s initiative to restore the Great Lakes, an ecosystem battered by invasive species, toxic pollution and other ...

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Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Debt-shy Wisconsin counties are cautiously considering federal stimulus-backed bonding for projects on land that qualifies as a recovery zone. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act lets counties and municipalities declare economic recovery zones, which are areas dealing ...

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Belknap Electric Inc., Superior, reached an informal settlement with OSHA on Feb. 18 to reduce a $525 general-safety-and-health-provisions citation to $315 and two electrical-wiring-methods citations, totaling $1,400, to $840. The company was issued the citations Jan. 28 during an electrical ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com New development is a long-term solution to balancing a city budget but unlikely to fix Milwaukee’s money trouble in the next year. The city is facing an $85 million to $90 million gap between costs and revenue ...

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Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Wisconsin utilities have a track record of building, operating and maintaining their own wind farms, leaving independent producers little reason to build in the state. But when those same utilities build wind farms in other states, Wisconsin’s ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Rail and highway projects would draw from the same pot of money if the federal government follows through with a new system for distributing grants. The system would overhaul the current cash distribution plan in which federal ...

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Cassville ferry service gets $1.8 million federal grant Cassville (AP) — A ferry service that carries passengers between Wisconsin and Iowa is receiving $1.8 million in federal stimulus money. The Cassville Car Ferry is the oldest operating ferry service in ...

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Tamara Lush AP Writer Miami (AP) — When Enid Pinkney was a girl in the 1940s, her grandmother would tell her stories about a cemetery nestled in the northwest corner of Miami in an area once called Lemon City. Pinkney ...

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Phillip Rawls AP Writer Montgomery, AL — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble ...

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Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com Madison is forging ahead with plans to raise money for a Central Park even though the project lacks details, and the land is bisected by railroad tracks. “Money follows inspiring ideas,” said David Mollenhoff, former president of ...

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