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The Michigan State University crew for The Greening of Flint

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Troy Hale: 11-Time Emmy Award winning television producer and filmmaker. Producer for the Big Ten Network as well as executive producing and host for a TV program for Michigan PBS stations. Geri Alumit Zeldes: Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and producer of the documentary film “Arabs, Jews and the News.” AJN is the winner of a 2010 Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association, 2010 winner of Best Documentary from the Virtual Film Festival, as well as other awards. The work was uplinked March 2010 for national distribution and has already aired in northern California, Montana and other stations in Michigan. Students:

Kirk Green, Journalism

Quincy Hodges, Journalism (master’s)

Matthew Law, Telecommunications Information Studies and Media

Kristina Marks, Telecommunications Information Studies and Media (2010 graduate)

Anthony Siciliano, Telecommunications Information Studies and Media (2010 graduate)

Mike Tetrick, Telecommunications Information Studies and Media

Yang Zhang, Journalism (master’s)

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Ann Arbor residents question removal of massive maple tree

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(MI) Ann Arbor News – Several residents on Ann Arbor’s west side are angry a massive silver maple tree they believe was healthy was cut down by city foresters. More distressing, they say, is that the 4-foot diameter tree on Charlton Street in the Virginia Park neighborhood was a casualty in a larger pattern. The group believes trees are being removed by default, rather than after efforts to save them. More

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Metro businesses go green with designs

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(MI) Detroit Free Press – Clinton Township lawyer Greg Buss imagines walking out the back door of his office to picnic under the trees along the Clinton River. “I’d like to be able to look out there and see the deer. You do see some fox down there,” said Buss, who practices real estate law from an office about a mile from the planned site of a new eco-friendly office building he plans to build. “It’s pretty cool to do something that’s good for the environment.” More