COVID-19

Many university students don’t qualify for COVID aid

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If they are between 16 and 24 and their parents claim them as dependents, they don’t qualify for any check – including the $500 their parents get for younger dependents. Lawmakers are looking for a fix while some college students call foul.

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Remembering the UP’s break-away movement

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The time was the 1970s, when many Yoopers believed that the push to strengthen national and state environmental laws posed an economic threat to the U.P., especially its mining, lumbering and agricultural industries. 

COVID-19

Comparing actions by Great Lakes states and spread of COVID-19

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The Michigan nonprofit news service Bridge reports:  “Epidemiologists warn that it’s too early in the crisis to make conclusions, but some experts wonder if Michigan’s caseload would be different if public officials moved faster in the early days of the outbreak.”

Echo

Tough talk from a tough generation

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Echo tasked a group of young reporters with asking members of their grandparents’ generation how they are coping with the coronavirus. We wondered how this crisis compares to the significant social disruptions they’ve already weathered during their lifetimes.

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Ontario’s origins lead to land use disputes

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Southern Ontario’s population is growing rapidly, pitting suppliers of sand, rock and gravel against citizens’ concerned about the impact urban sprawl and aggregate extraction have on the environment.