Detroit Free Press Eric Sharp Column: DNR's Fee-Hike Plan Really Isn't Out of Line
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By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 22--A reader wrote that he bought his first Michigan deer and all-species fishing licenses in 1949 for $3 each.
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Internet radio's temporary reprieve from a potentially fatal royalty rate hike offers an opportunity for a reasoned look at the situation. Comentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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It's hard to find anyone who likes the Environmental Protection Agency' s new proposal to make permit holders pay for more of the cost of managing pollutants discharged into the nation's waterways.
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HUNTINGDON, Pa., Sept. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- For three Maryland adults and a Pennsylvania juvenile apprehended over the past weekend by Pennsylvania Game Commission officers, the temptation to skirt the laws to get their deer early has resulted in fines that may total more than $4,000.
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Bowing to pressure from both the Federal Communications Commission and irate customers, Verizon says it has decided not to impose a new fee on DSL subscribers that would have negated any savings from DSL being exempted from the Universal Service Fund.
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By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent  Richard Lee Buck ~ 1929-2006  Richard Lee Buck felt so strongly about conservation and land preservation that he raised his family in a nature preserve.
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By Pete Bach, The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.  Sep. 12--Robert Evras doesn't leave anything about electronic bill paying  to chance.
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Someone had to pay to remove 3,000 dead trees in New Orleans. The trees, insisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, couldn't have been killed by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters because they weren't toppled to a certain angle. New Orleans would have to pay.
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By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 1--LANSING -- Michigan House Democrats kicked off a renewed effort Wednesday to block other states and Canada from using Michigan landfills, touting huge waste fee increases and other measures as a way to stop garbage at the border.
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By Lee Graves, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 18--John Odenkirk doesn't want to set expectations too high.
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As an environmentalist with more than 30 years of activism under my belt, I am generally not vulnerable to complacency. But if there is any area of environmental concern I tend to feel is well in hand it is the Great Lakes.
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By Chris Niskanen, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 17--One of my last conversations with departing De-partment of Natural Resources Commissioner Gene Merriam was a rare moment of clarity between the press and government.
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NORTON -- He loaded up his PT Cruiser early last week, tossed a sleeping bag in the backseat, and headed north for the Tour. For a $75 entry fee, Tim Snyder was on his way, a spot promised him at the Deutsche Bank Championship. ``Hey, I get to spend the week with Tiger Woods," said the 59-year-old Snyder, a semi-retired ...
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Following up on yesterday's piece about Demo-like conferences. Eric Norlin proposes that the economics are still out of whack. The people providing the value, the people attending the show, should get in for free. The demoers should pay. He has a point. In my HyperCamp proposal, that is how it works. The premise is that in 2007 everyone who attends is as much press as anyone else (everyone's a blogger) so what's the justification for some people getting in as press (i.e. free of charge) and others paying $2500.
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By Laura Figueroa, The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Members of the Miami Lakes Town Council were back to a familiar discussion point at Tuesday night's council meeting: the fight to eliminate the county mitigation fee.
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By Times Union, Albany, N.Y.  Dec. 14--Here's one more item for that long list of promises for the  early days of the Spitzer administration. It's better enforcement of the land  use regulations that make the Adirondacks the pristine treasure they should be  for, yes, forever.
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By Nicole Warburton Deseret Morning News  A bill that would earmark the money from a $10 vehicle registration-fee increase, approved last year in Salt Lake County to buy land for the proposed Mountain View Corridor, has surfaced in recent days on the Hill.