Christopher Hedges » Lake Michigan http://christopherhedges.com Attorney serving Northwest Indiana's legal needs Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:04:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Indiana Lakeshore http://christopherhedges.com/2010/04/28/indiana-lakeshore/ http://christopherhedges.com/2010/04/28/indiana-lakeshore/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:15:09 +0000 Christopher C. Hedges http://christopherhedges.com/?p=1755 a

]]> Lakeshore walk in Portage, Indiana

Chicago viewed from the Indiana Lakeshore in Portage

Lakeshore grill

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]]> http://christopherhedges.com/2010/04/28/indiana-lakeshore/feed/ 2 Late afternoon fun in New Buffalo, MI http://christopherhedges.com/2010/04/01/late-afternoon-fun-in-new-buffalo-mi/ http://christopherhedges.com/2010/04/01/late-afternoon-fun-in-new-buffalo-mi/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:00:34 +0000 Christopher C. Hedges http://christopherhedges.com/?p=1701 a

]]> Jean, Matt, John and I decided to take a late afternoon trip to New Buffalo, Michigan yesterday to celebrate Matt’s spring break as well as the nice weather we’ve been enjoying in Northwest Indiana.

Jean and John at the New Buffalo beach

Matt and John play in the sand

John draws in the sand

Seagull on the beach

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]]> Shore Magazine’s election wrap-up email arrived in my inbox with an interesting tid-bit of information that bodes well for Lake Michigan communities in Southwest Michigan and possibly Northwest Indiana, if the presidential power-brokers discover Beverly Shores.

Democrats have been weekending and vacationing in second homes—usually known as cottages—along Red Arrow Highway for generations. … We (blue Southwestern Michigan) have been promoted to Kennebunkport.

The magazine’s email even notes that there is a rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama spent some time on Lake Michigan’s shore this summer.

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]]> Less pollutants are going into Lake Michigan than in the past, but millions of pounds are still making their way into the Great Lake.

The Post-Tribune’s Gitte Laasby writes about the Clean Water Act‘s effect in Northwest Indiana in today’s paper.

The Clean Water Act set out to “virtually eliminate” discharges to U.S. waterways by 1985. But a Post-Tribune analysis shows Indiana’s major facilities discharged more than 378 million pounds of pollutants into Lake Michigan and its tributaries in just one year.

Dumping of nearly all pollutants discharged by Indiana’s 33 major polluters has fallen dramatically since 1979. The Clean Water Act has made a difference.

But it hasn’t reached its goal of zero discharges, or come near it.

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