http://www.miningjournal.netTop Headlinesen-usSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:14:57 EDTSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:14:57 EDThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/536554.htmlANN ARBOR - Michigan's economy will improve in 2010, but only in comparison to what has been ''one of the most brutal years in a generation,'' University of Michigan economists said Friday. Economist George Fulton expects next year will be ''difficult,'' with job losses continuing and the unemployment rate, - 15.1 percent in October and an expected 15.Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:05 EDThttp://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/536555.htmlMARQUETTE - The saunas at Northern Michigan University are still cookin'. Several weeks ago, NMU officials announced they were going to close the saunas at the Physical Education Instructional Facility Dec. 13, the end of the fall semester, to save mone.Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:12:50 EDThttp://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/536556.htmlMARQUETTE - Partisan candidates have been designated for a February special election in Marquette Township who will run to fill out the unexpired terms of the township board clerk and two trustees. Additional candidates may run in the race, with no party affiliation, by filing the required paperwork and signatures with the Marquette County Clerk's office by 4 p.m. Wednesday.Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:17 EDThttp://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/536557.htmlISHPEMING - Kids at the C.L. Phelps Middle School in Ishpeming may be surrounded by friends and family for the holidays, but they're all doing their part to make sure troops overseas get their share of the celebration.Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:48 EDThttp://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/536558.htmlTRAVERSE CITY - Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Frida.Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:14:24 EDT