GLIN: [dailynews] 9 September 2010

On 9/9/2010 6:59 PM, Daily News wrote:

Great Lakes Daily News: September 9, 2010
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EDITORIAL: Now that we have a 'carp czar,' let him do his work
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Keeping the voracious carp out of the Great Lakes ecosystem, and from devouring its multibillion-dollar commercial and sports fishing industries, will require political as well as ecological smarts. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/9)


Port of prosperity: Shipping up 52 percent
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The Port of Indiana is seeing an increase in the amount of cargo arriving in Portage in 2010. Source: Post-Tribune (9/9)


Spill drill coming to bay
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County emergency teams will work with railroad company CN in a mock fuel spill drill on Lake Superior's Agate Bay in Two Harbors, Minn. Source: Lake County News Chronicle (9/9)


St. Marys algae likely sickened 7, state says
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Seven people probably were made sick by the toxic blue-green algae that have plagued Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio, according to state health officials. Source: The Columbus Dispatch (9/9)


Quick Asian carp solution unlikely
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The man in charge of the Army Corps' fight to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan said Wednesday that nobody should expect the problem to be solved soon. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/8)


Founding members of mayors' Great Lakes organization to step down
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A founding chairman and director of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative won't be seeking re-election as Chicago's mayor. Richard M. Daley announced Tuesday that he won't be running in 2011. Source: The Superior Daily Telegram (9/8)


Remains of historic shipwreck trapped in limbo
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Swimming through the murky depths of Lake Michigan, scuba divers came upon a ghostly shape looming in the greenish gloom. This was the wreckage of the Lady Elgin, where some 350 men, women and children lost their lives on Sept. 8, 1860. Source: Chicago Tribune (9/8)


Birders track raptor migration across Detroit River
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Each fall a river of hawks pours across the mouth of the Detroit River. Thousands of raptors like the American Kestrel, Bald Eagle and Turkey Vulture, cross the river every day. And each one is counted by hand. Source: Great Lakes Echo (9/8)


Tall Ships Erie seeks to draw thousands
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One last big summer bash awaits Erie residents this weekend. Love the sight of a majestic tall ship? You can check out eight of them at Tall Ships Erie, a four-day event that begins Thursday and ends Sunday. Source: Erie Times-News (9/8)


Cleaning up the Enbridge oil spill
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It's been more than a month since an estimated 800,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River. Enbridge Energy Partners, the company responsible for the pipeline leak, says it has cleaned up about 700,000 gallons of that oil. Source: The Environment Report (9/7)

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