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What a Trump vs. Harris presidency might mean for the Great Lakes | Great Lakes Now

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What a Trump vs. Harris presidency might mean for the Great Lakes

The 2024 presidential election campaign is in the homestretch and results in the Great Lakes states of Michigan and Wisconsin could determine the winner. Vice-President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump covet the electors in both states and polling indicates they could go either way.

Great Lakes Now selected three key topics — Great Lakes restoration, Line 5 and groundwater — and asked veteran policy experts Rob Sisson and Lana Pollack for their views on how a Harris or Trump presidency may deal with them.

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London Free Press

Two seniors killed in separate weekend crashes across London region

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Two seniors are dead after separate crashes on rural Southwestern Ontario roads Saturday, including one involving a pedestrian. A 72-year-old Chatham resident was rushed to hospital, where they later succumbed to their injuries, after a two-vehicle crash in western Elgin County Saturday afternoon. Paramedics, Dutton-Dunwich firefighters and Elgin OPP officers responded to the crash involving […]

London Free Press

Grassroots group aims to collect 100,000 of these for London’s homeless

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Minutes earlier, 519 Pursuit’s Michelle Boissonneault and Patty O’Neill had finished handing lunches to homeless campers at Watson Street Park. “We ran out of meals. We had to turn people away today,” Boissonneault said, as she and O’Neill posed for a photograph. That’s the level of need hundreds of Londoners are facing as winter approaches, […]

Great Lakes Now

Swing state voters along the Great Lakes love cleaner water and beaches − and candidates from both parties have long fished for support there | Great Lakes Now

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Swing state voters along the Great Lakes love cleaner water and beaches − and candidates from both parties have long fished for support there

By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan

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If history holds true to form, I expect the presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris to begin touting their support for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative as Election Day approaches.

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