Tagged with "Lake Erie"

The public conversation about fracking in Erie County is a quiet one.

Destination Erie has become Emerge 2040, as planning has become action for making Erie a place people want to live in.

Sen. Casey pledges support for Lake Erie Marine Sanctuary.

What is the genius of our place?

What can be done to protect our most precious natural resource?

Gannon University adds a new academic major focusing on Lake Erie

Exactly what is a National Marine Sanctuary, and why would Erie want one?

Erie native Elliot Spaeder completes the central Lake Erie swim.

Dr. Sherri Mason explores plastic impacts on Great Lakes food chain

County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper embraces idea of fracking ban in Lake Erie watershed.

Here's something to ruin your nice day: a 300-mile algae bloom is predicted for Lake Erie this summer.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hanger talks fracking, his job plan, having had a gun held to his head, what it was like to be in "Gasland," and why he thinks he can defeat Gov. Tom Corbett.

In the last issue, Jay Stevens wrote about climate change and Lake Erie. He's returning to the topic and setting his sights on the politics of the issue.

We are at a crossroads. Massive algae blooms are cropping up. Invasive species threaten the habitat of native fish. A survey recently found the highest concentrations of waterborne microplastics recorded in the world in Lake Erie. And climate change promises to severely alter our region's weather, transforming the lake in ways we can't imagine. This is our lake.

Erie knows how to come together to celebrate its past -- something in which this community takes great pride. After all, the fleet that Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led was built right here in our bay. So post-War of 1812 America unfolded the way it did largely because of Erie's role in the U.S.'s victory in the Battle of Lake Erie, a lake after which we draw our city and county's namesake.