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City learning from past notification flubs

February 9, 2010

The city of Marquette seems to be learning that it’s easier to get the word out before it breaks ground on construction projects than it is to do damage control afterward. The restriping of McClellan Avenue in August — creating two lanes with a center turn lane and bike lanes — triggered a tsunami of public criticism from residents who were taken by surprise. Earlier in the year, the city changed a portion of Wright Street from four lanes to three lanes and took a lot of heat from the public. And in 2007, the city faced vocal criticism over the reconfiguration of Washington Street. In most of these cases, residents were upset with the changes but even more miffed that they didn’t feel they got adequate advance notice of the changes. In the case of the McClellan Avenue debacle, the city learned a $6,000 lesson — the cost of scraping off the paint and restriping the section.

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Jobs campaign has acute flaws, should be canceled

February 8, 2010

President Barack Obama may not be willing to recognize the demand for real change that is swelling among American voters, but some members of Congress are.

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Cliffs research will be streamlined under NMU project

February 7, 2010

Thanks to a federal grant, a dedicated archivist and some serendipity, area researchers will soon have a wealth of historical records to mine.

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Concealed weapons on campus is a very bad idea

February 7, 2010

It’s not often that legislation is proposed at any level — local, state or federal — that is utterly devoid of anything positive.

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They said it - A roundup of last week’s best quotes

February 7, 2010

• “We have lots of figures to look at. I don’t know where all the rumors (of dramatic health insurance cuts) started. We’re just looking at it and that’s it.” — Donald Johnson, secretary, Pathways board of director.

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Planned Kennecott highway is not a woodland road

February 7, 2010

The name Woodland Roadî is about as misleading a characterization as Kennecott Minerals could have come up with for the haul roadî that would link its mine site on the Yellow Dog Plains and its proposed mill in Humbold.

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