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Traverse City passes prowling ordinance amid ACLU concerns over homelessness, police discretion
Traverse City commissioners approved the measure on a 4-3 vote, after passionate public comment across two meetings. The ordinance follows growing complaints about safety in a park along Boardman Lake.
Lessons In Chemistry — Microbes, Heavy Metals, And Water
Chemistry is politically agnostic. It can give us wondrous new products, like nylon and Dacron, but it can give us destructive products like napalm and Agent Orange. Here are two stories in the news that came clattering into the teletype machines in the third sub-basement at CleanTechnica world headquarters today. … [continued]
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Emergency agencies expand options for getting info to the public
By Katee Tompkins
Emergency warnings are designed to reach all Michigan residents, whether through a cellphone alert, television broadcast or weather radio, but ensuring those messages are accessible to people with disabilities, limited English proficiency and limited access to technology often requires additional efforts.
Debate continues over short-term rentals versus affordable housing needs
By Olivia O’Neill
Many local governments in and away from popular vacation destinations are wrestling with how to balance economic benefits of short-term rentals to accommodate visitors and a shortage of affordable long-term housing.
A Data Center Deal Lurks Behind Trump’s Russian Diesel Debacle
Data centers have emerged as part of Trump’s plan for a new era of collaboration between the US and Russia — wait, what?
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