Ravine work will help keep Amity Creek clear - Duluth News Tribune
There are people in Duluth s eastern neighborhoods who remember the storm more than 60 years ago that wiped out roads and culverts and washed dairy trucks into a river. Les Johnson of Lakewood Township is one of them, and he has the old newspaper

Drake Bennett: In the Muslim world, creationism is on the rise - Dallas Morning News
Last month, with much fanfare, a team of scientists unveiled the fossil skeleton of Ardi, a 4-foot-tall female primate who lived and died 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia. According to her discoverers, Ardi short for Ardipithecus

And so, a czar is borne - Register-Star
All right, so it took eight months for it to happen; but anyone who reads this column with any regularity will recall my reporting that Judith Judy Enck, the woman who has been calling the shots at the state Department of Environmental

In long history of invaders, Asian Carp the worst? — With no known - Ottawa Times
During the 1940s and ’50s our Great Lakes systems in the Midwest were very polluted. The only lake that still had some pure water was Lake Superior. Locally, Lake Michigan still had a population of yellow perch and smelt. Lake Erie was considered the