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On-Air and Online: Great Lakes Now introduces a new monthly TV series
Detroit Public TV to Debut “Great Lakes Now,” A New Monthly Series for Viewers across the Region A network of PBS stations to work together to cover crucial issues […]
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Milwaukee sewage exec has an “audacious” goal to protect Lake Michigan
Milwaukee’s Kevin Shafer has an ambitious goal for the agency charged with keeping sewage out of Lake Michigan. He wants zero sewage overflows to the lake by 2035, a goal that has national colleagues and a Milwaukee environmental group questioning if he understands the inevitability of overflows.
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Canada: Cruising from Montreal to Georgian Bay
The city of Midland used a $250,000 grant from Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport to study and develop a 10-year plan to evaluate making Ontario a major competitor in the Great Lakes cruising industry.
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Smaller Great Lakes Cities and Cruise Ships: Canada
The province of Ontario has been looking to expand its foothold in the passenger cruising industry. The bigger ports of Toronto, Kingston, and Windsor are all popular destinations as it […]
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Cleveland: Disembarking Downtown
A post-cruise guest satisfaction survey conducted by Victory Cruises found Cleveland, Ohio ranked second only to Mackinac Island as the preferred Great Lakes destination. Located midway across Lake Erie’s southern […]
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Earth Day 2019: The Seven Generation River Premieres on the World Channel
The Seven Generation River, a half-hour documentary from Detroit Public Television’s Great Lakes Bureau and Vision Maker Media explores the political, social and environmental issues surrounding our most precious natural resource – water.
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Traverse City: If You Rebuild It, Will the Cruise Ships Come?
Leisure cruising along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway has been an on-again-off-again industry for several decades now. But in the past few years, there is a much more […]
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Muskegon: Former industrial waterfront makes room for cruise ships and passengers
“The majority of the people coming [to Muskegon] on these cruise ships are coming from the coastal region, so they’re coming out from the western states, they’re coming out from California and the northwest, they’re coming from all up and down the eastern shoreline”
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Two Lake Erie tributaries draw tens of thousands for springtime fishing
Dates come and go, and so do groundhogs and weather reports. However, the true indicator of spring is when thousands of men, women and children suddenly appear, waist-deep in the chilly, often muddy waters of the Sandusky and Maumee rivers.
