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Children play unsupervised in a carpeted Meijer store play area with TV overhead while parents shop in grocery aisles beyond

Kids Were Left to Fend for Themselves at the Meijer Oasis

Meijer used to have unsupervised play areas where kids were left to wrestle and watch cartoons while their parents shopped

Buddy Moorehouse

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Historic log cabin visitor center at Hartwick Pines State Park surrounded by towering old-growth forest trees

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Noah Wing·Aug 11
Rows of solar panels installed across rural Michigan farmland under overcast skies, transforming agricultural space into energy infrastructure

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F.B. Traver·Aug 11
Monarch butterfly with orange and black spotted wings feeds on small yellow wildflowers in natural habitat

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