GLIN NEWS: 10 April 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 10 April 2008
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> Doyle calls for vote on Great Lakes compact
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> The Great Lakes compact remains afloat as Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle
> announced Wednesday a special legislative session April 17 to vote on
> a bipartisan deal reached among state lawmakers. Source: Green Bay
> Press Gazette (4/10)
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> Grendell wants to amend Ohio Constitution
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> Ohio Sen. Tim Grendell says he wants to make a water deal. Source: The
> Plain Dealer (4/10)
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> Lakes bills pending
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> A coalition of environmental and conservation groups believes the best
> chance Michigan has of hanging onto the use its water and to prevent
> withdrawals from the Great Lakes basin is a package of bills currently
> in the state House. Source: The Port Huron Times Herald (4/10)
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> Erie fishermen off the hook on customs rule
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> U.S. customs officials have scuttled plans to require background
> checks for Great Lakes fishermen and divers entering Canadian waters.
> Source: The Columbus Dispatch (4/10)
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> First ship of 2008 season to pass under Duluth lift bridge
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> There's a sign of spring even as a blizzard is forecast to hit Duluth,
> Minn. along Lake Superior - the first ship of the 2008 St. Lawrence
> Seaway navigation season is about to arrive. Source: The Associated
> Press (4/10)
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> Sleeping Bear doesn't have cash for land
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> Fritz Barratt had only one real offer when he listed for sale his
> family's 190-acre farm in Leelanau County's Sleeping Bear Dunes
> National Lakeshore. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (4/10)
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> Split Rock Lighthouse being renovated
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> One of Minnesota's most famous landmarks is getting a facelight by
> crews working along the North Shore. Source: Rochester Post-Bulletin
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> Kingston dumps more sewage into lake; Snowfall blamed for increase
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> Runoff from this past winter's heavy snowfall has forced Kingston to
> send nearly four times more untreated sewage into local waterways in
> the first three months of 2008 than for all of 2007. Source: The
> Kingston Whig-Standard (4/10)
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> Can fast hovercraft service between U.S. and Toronto stay afloat?
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> It didn't work once. It didn't work twice. But is the third time the
> charm? Source: CP24-Toronto (4/9)
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