(OH) Toledo Blade - For decades if not centuries, a portion of Lake Erie’s central basin has been so depleted of oxygen that it has not supported life. Two Bowling Green State University researchers believe they have uncovered cold-weather diatoms, or microscopic pieces, of algae that contribute to the lake’s infamous dead zone.

(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle - Some lawmakers are seeking an increase in solid waste disposal fees to help reduce landfills and incineration.

(WI) Sheboygan Press - The Great Lakes got a huge shot in the arm last week when President Obama signed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

(ON) Toronto Star - In a cross-Canada investigation, fish sold as wild Pacific salmon turned out to be farmed Atlantic salmon. Sea bass was actually endangered Patagonian toothfish, marketed as Chilean sea bass, which is a different species. Cheaper skipjack was substituted for sushi grade tuna.

(MI) AnnArbor.com - Do you regularly recycle? If the answer is no, Ann Arbor officials are trying to change that. Late last week, the city council unanimously agreed to move forward with a $4.6 million initiative to overhaul Ann Arbor’s recycling system.

(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - The headquarters for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s new School of Freshwater Sciences would cost an estimated $50 million to develop at the university’s Great Lakes WATER Institute, according to a newly drafted proposal.

(ON) Benzinga - On behalf of Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice, Jeff Watson, Member of Parliament for Essex, today announced $410,000 in funding from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund for four projects to clean up the Detroit River Area of Concern. Thirty-seven projects throughout the Great Lakes are receiving $2.2 million in funding this year.

(MI) The Michigan News - Michigan is defined by the Great Lakes. Our two peninsulas border four of the five Great Lakes and we are
the only state completely within the Great Lakes watershed. As Attorney General, one of Mike Cox’s
primary environmental priorities has been protecting our Great Lakes.

Cast your vote: Should Andy hunt?
By Andy McGlashen
Nov. 10, 2009
Last week I watched the great John Huston film The Misfits, and there’s a scene I can’t get out of my head.  Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift have taken Marilyn Monroe with them on a “mustanging” trip into some Nevada mountains.
Monroe goes into hysterics when she learns that the men aren’t wrangling wild horses so birthday girls can lope around on them – they’re to be slaughtered for dog food.  “Honey, a kind man can kill,” Gable says, as …

By Jeff Gillies
Nov. 9, 2009
What do cologne and Indiana’s great blue herons have in common?
They both contain chemicals that are increasingly worrisome to Great Lakes officials.
A list of contaminants of emerging concern includes synthetic musks and perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs. Musks are a key ingredient of perfume. PFCs have had a bevy of industrial uses including fire-fighting foams and stain-resistant Scotchgard.