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Great Lakes Echo launches redesign

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Help Echo turn the Great Lakes basin on its ear and shake up journalism.

Perhaps the greatest change you’ll notice in this Echo redesign is that reporters will ask for your help, tell you about reporting challenges and empty their notebooks of those odds and ends that otherwise never quite become stories.

But expect us to stick with the Echo core concept: We’re a news community that transcends political borders and is defined by a global resource. Check out how we intend to do an even better job of that.

Echo

Quiz: Which Great Lakes invasive species is your former significant other?

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By Great Lakes Echo
Nov. 18, 2009

With help from readers, the Great Lakes Echo staff has developed another environmental Facebook quiz. Take this one to find out which Great Lakes invasive species is most like your former significant other. As a bonus you may learn a bit about those plants and animals upsetting the ecology of the largest body of fresh surface water in the world. On the other hand, you may just gain a new nickname for your ex.

Echo

MONDAY MASHUP: Great Lakes Music Map

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By Haley Walker
Nov. 16, 2009
(Editors note: Make your case for a Great Lakes song in the comments and we’ll update this map.)
Becoming a successful musician didn’t require Timothy Monger to move to Los Angeles or New York. Brighton, a southeastern Michigan city of 6,000, is where he was first inspired. It is where he grew up and the place he stayed near. The dream of musical fame often pursued on the East and West coasts was not as great an influence as the Great Lakes – the Third Coast.

Echo

Can you pronounce Great Lakes cities better than a Texan?

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If you want to see traces of a region’s native inhabitants, look no farther than the names of its cities. Consider the Lake Superior coastal city Waukesha, Wis., named for the Chippewa or Ojibwe word for “little fox.”

The original Chippewa word most likely sounded like Wau-goosh-sha, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society’s state dictionary. Today, it sounds like Wok-a-shaw. It’s one of many Great Lakes city monikers originating from native languages. It’s also on my personal list of regional words specifically designed to torture Texans like myself.

Recreation

VIDEO: Freshwater surfers are Great Lakes activists

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Last February, Deur was asked by the Healing Our Waters Coalition, a group working to restore the Great Lakes, to lobby in Washington, D.C. on Great Lakes Day. He was the only surfer among 100 business leaders, lobbyists and activists discussing the restoration and protection of the lakes on Capitol Hill.