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Some of our favorite reader comments of 2009

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Jan. 5, 2010

A sampling of comments Echo staff enjoyed in 2009:

Story: New Great Lakes quiz
Comment: “My ex is definitely an Asian carp. He’s huge, gross-looking, and he frequently pops up when I least expect him to. I wish there was an electric fence to keep him away from Michigan.” Story: The bed bugs bit but they won’t spread disease, report says
Comment: “They ARE awful, Thanks to my mother-in-law giving us an infested bedframe, now our whole house is infested.

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The Chicago water heist that just keeps on taking

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(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – There are a lot of fish tales going around. Here is a true one that is about more than just the recently famous Asian carp. Once upon a time, many years ago, Chicago was a cesspool. It was so polluted in the late 1800s, it has been written, that chickens could run across the scum that formed on top of the rivers. I don’t know if I believe this because it has also been written that, instead of fish, the rivers were full of the floating carcasses of dead cats and horses, and I am not sure a chicken would go anywhere near a dead horse.

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Public to get its say on plan for dredging

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(OH) Toledo Blade – State environmental regulators are to convene in downtown Toledo on Jan. 14 to hear the public weigh in on the federal government’s latest plan to dredge the Toledo shipping channel this summer. The plan allows for the possibility of three times as much silt being dumped into western Lake Erie’s fertile North Maumee Bay as is removed during usual dredging. More