WASHINGTON (AP)— The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling for Washington to immediately stop paying out-of-work Americans an extra $300 a week in unemployment benefits, saying the boost in government aid is giving some recipients less incentive to look for work. The business group said ...
About 1.64 million people were screened at U.S. airports Thursday, the busiest day for air travel since March 2020, the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The previous pandemic high for air travel was reached just four days earlier and with the Mother’s Day weekend on the way, this record is likely to be surpassed quickly as well. Air travel has yet to return to anywhere near the typical levels seen before COVID-19 brought flights almost to a standstill. In April and May, airport crowds were down about 40% compared with the same period in 2019, according to figures from the ...
The weather is warming up, besides the occasional April snowstorm, and things are getting closer to returning to normal. How many events in Marquette County do you think were cancelled over the last year? I don’t know that exact answer but I can tell you it was a lot. There became a point ...
ST. IGNACE – Trustees for Mackinac Straits Health System have announced Steven Autore of Cedarville as the new board chair. He replaces Christine McPherson, who served in that role since 2018. Patrick Shannon of Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac Island, has been named vice chair. Autore has ...
Three new murals that pay homage to the area’s history can now be found in Munising. After months of brainstorming ideas during virtual meetings with Mike Stockwell of Graphic Designs, Signs Now installed the Alger County Chamber of Commerce and Munising Downtown Development Authority’s ...
If anyone’s looking for a reason to celebrate this spring, good news: coming up soon, May 9-15, is Economic Development Week. It’s not a holiday that many have on our calendars, but it is an “official” event marked annually by the International Economic Development Council, to ...
