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Month: August 2019

  • Fewer Invasive Species Reach the Great Lakes, but Those Here Continue to Spread

    Fewer Invasive Species Reach the Great Lakes, but Those Here Continue to Spread

    Scientists, Regulators and Industry Representatives Debate if Ballast Water Treatment is an Option By Jim Malewitz, Sarah Whites-Koditschek More than $375 billion in cargo — iron ore, coal, cement, stone, grain and more — has flowed between Great Lakes ports and foreign nations since 1959. That’s when Queen Elizabeth and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower…

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  • How Much are you Overpaying in Property Tax?

    How Much are you Overpaying in Property Tax?

    Commercial Property Sales Loophole Costs Small Business Owners Thousands This investigation made possible via a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.  By Lucia Walinchus, Lukas Udstuen, Samantha Raudins, Ashton Nichols, and Chen Chang When Palmer Square, LLC recently wanted to sell their apartment building at 4121 Palmer Park Circle East in Columbus, they…

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