Six years ago, David Spector bought an 80-year old house perched on a 120-foot bluff for its panoramic view of Lake Michigan’s endless horizon.  But that priceless view may cost Spector more than he could have imagined as ongoing shoreline erosion edges his house ever closer to the bluff’s precipice and crashing waves below. 

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Heavy rain earlier this week in Wisconsin flooded backyards and seeped into basements, but it's left one home in Ozaukee County teetering on a bluff along Lake Michigan.

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A small house along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion.

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Dane County plans to spend $750,000 this year to test out paying farmers to plant cover crops in an attempt to curb runoff from heavy rains and snowmelt.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Wisconsin $840,000 to help places along Lake Michigan reduce the threat from coastal hazards, Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday.

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When we talk about "federal assistance" for disaster relief, we obviously mean money and personnel subsidized by federal taxpayers. That includes those of us living here in Wisconsin. We didn't personally deliver the federal aid in times of need. But indirectly, through the taxes we pay, we did.

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There were a lot of questions from homeowners who live on Lake Michigan and are watching rising waters eat away at their property. But, there were few answers from federal, state and local officials who met with the property owners in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday evening.

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Severe erosion along some of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan communities is threatening homes and causing bluffs to collapse.

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When the state adopts its uniform erosion-control standards, Mark Etrheim said, he wants it to eliminate a La Crosse County rule forcing his company to lay down a gravel driveway before beginning work on a house.

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In signing the state’s 2013-15 budget bill Sunday, Gov. Scott Walker left unchanged a tax increase that is estimated to cost construction companies and other heavy users of the state’s unemployment fund millions of dollars in the coming years.

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