The FBI considers violent crime to include murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In their Uniform Crime Report, the FBI maintains an annual violent crime tally by state, city and population. The UCR for 2019 seemed to be the most recent, fully available report ...

Whether you are a long-time resident of Marquette or a visitor just passing through, you’ve heard of the Marquette Food Co-Op. Founded in 1971, it’s given locals a chance to buy sustainable, healthy food through pandemics, blizzards, and mass change in our social and physical environment. ...

This Enbridge scheme to dig a tunnel beneath the Mackinac Straits instead of abandoning and removing the existing 72-year-old pipeline is a boondoggle, and would put our most valuable resource, fresh water, at risk with little long term benefit. Here is why. First, well before 100 years, oil ...

The Federal Department of Labor is suggesting we should eliminate the minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, a testing ground to see if they can get away with eliminating minimum wage requirements for everyone. A recent news story I read indicated that Michigan workers need to ...

Before his re-election, Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Has any other U.S. president-elect ever made such a statement? Trump recently demanded that Barack Obama be prosecuted for treason, based on no evidence. Trump fired a labor statistician because he didn't like the job ...

State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, who represents the 110th District, recently introduced House Resolution 151 urging the federal government to purchase the former Ojibway Correctional Facility in Gogebic County. Markkanen suggests the federal government could turn the facility into a ...