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Eartha Jane Melzer

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Eartha Jane Melzer, reports for www.michiganmessenger.com. Click here to contact Ms. Melzer.

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Whirlpool’s Divisive Development

By Eartha Jane Melzer

[This commentary was originally published in Michigan Messenger.] The corporate giant’s plan to privatize a poor town’s waterside park provokes citizen opposition. Julie Weiss had returned to Benton Harbor from Chicago to look after her parents and was walking on the beach at Jean Klock Park in September 2006 when she came upon a sign…

[This commentary was originally published in Michigan Messenger.] The corporate giant's plan to privatize a poor town's waterside park provokes citizen opposition. Julie Weiss had returned…

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