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Editorial

Keep bicyclists safe on roadways

In 2022, 36 bicyclists were killed and 1,030 injured on Michigan roads As warmer weather returns across the region, the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) is working to educate the public and raise awareness about the ongoing issue of bicycle-related injuries and fatalities on ...

Prescription drug costs out of control

State Rep. Jenn Hill was in Marquette Monday to host a town hall meeting to discuss the ever-increasing cost of prescription medications. The meeting, held at the Peter White Public Library, saw Hill discussing the establishment of a prescription drug affordability board. “The PDAB’s ...

NMU protestors exercising First Amendment

The message began before Columbia University, but it has spread like wildfire over the past few weeks. Pro-Palestinian student protestors at Northern Michigan University have gathered on the lawn of the college’s academic mall with tents and signs, prepared to stay until Friday. This ...

NMU students get involved with community service

It’s hats off to a Northern Michigan University student group that raised a good sum of money for the Marquette Women’s Center. The Public Relations Student Society of America raised about $6,000 through its sixth annual Coffee Crawl in downtown Marquette. “The NMU PRSSA Coffee Crawl ...

Blues Festival will be missed in Marquette

We’re certain we speak for a great many Superiorland residents and visitors alike when we express a true sense of loss relative to the Blues Festival in Marquette. An annual late-summer fixture in the city’s Mattson Lower Harbor Park, the upcoming edition, the 20th, will be the last, ...