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Editorial

Tick season is here; precautions needed to avoid illness

If Superiorland residents didn’t already know it, tick season is in full swing and with it, the danger of contracting one of several nasty bacterial infections that are becoming all too common in the area. But ticks shouldn’t keep you out of the woods, if that’s something you enjoy ...

Don’t risk it today: Drive sober on 4-20

Today, April 20, or 4/20, has become an unofficial holiday for cannabis enthusiasts. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) remind cannabis users that it is dangerous and illegal to use cannabis and then ...

Public court files should remain public

A new rule in state court will require records to be deemed nonpublic after they’re bound over to circuit court. Like some kind of game of switcheroo with felony files, the records will be closed in district court on bind-over to circuit court, then closed in circuit if the case is remanded ...

Postal services may be at issue in Upper Peninsula

Postal services in the Upper Peninsula appear to be headed down a disastrous path. Thankfully, Gary Peters is attempting to subvert that. Peters, D-Michigan, authored legislation in 2021 for significant postal reform, improving operations and “saving about $50 billion over the next 10 ...

Masonic Building a hub of activity in city’s downtown

Every city has a handful of buildings that, over the years, become venerable. Most often, it seems, these structures are tied to the history of the city and its people, making them important landmarks worth preserving and repurposing, if at all possible. The city of Marquette is no ...

Prison time for Crumbleys completely appropriate

Although appeals are coming, a criminal case with wide-ranging implications wrapped up downstate last week when a judge sentenced the parents of a school shooter to at least 10 years in prison for failing to take steps that could have prevented a “runaway train” — the killing of four ...