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Michigan is spending big on infrastructure. Its problems are even bigger.

Michigan officials are celebrating a “historic” deal that will pump nearly $3 billion into aging infrastructure, but advocates say the state should be spending that much — or more — every year to adequately address decades of disinvestment.

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Funding Boost: EPA gives Great Lakes extra $20 million but state funding at risk