Because of deep budget cuts and hiring freezes, plow crews are using less salt and more sand, leaving highways and other roads with more hard-packed snow. (Press Photo/Ken Kolker)
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Grand Traverse County Traverse City, MI
Because of deep budget cuts and hiring freezes, plow crews are using less salt and more sand, leaving highways and other roads with more hard-packed snow. (Press Photo/Ken Kolker)
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A proposed gasoline tax hike to fix the state’s crumbling roads and bridges is pitting road builders against gasoline station owners, who say it would give Michigan the highest tax in the nation. With the proposed hike being considered…
Sierra Club, which is fighting Holland’s planned expansion of the James DeYoung coal-fired power plant, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids on Monday, alleging the plant has violated the federal Clean Air Act. (Press File Photo)
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Rep. Peter Hoekstra HOLLAND — Longtime Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra will not seek re-election in 2010, setting himself up for a possible run for governor. Hoekstra, 55, of Holland, was to announce today at his annual “Meet Pete Breakfast” in…
Gas tax money is dwindling, and costs have more than doubled for everything from asphalt to road salt, leaving roads and bridges to crumble in West Michigan and across the state, road officials say. (Press Photo/Ken Kolker)
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