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Monday: In Business

Locally-sourced meadery opens in Negaunee

NEGAUNEE — White Cedar Mead introduced its first offering of locally brewed mead on store shelves earlier this month. The family owned meadery emphasizes that their mead is brewed in the Upper Peninsula and features local honey, together with hand-gathered seeds, berries, nuts, and artisan ...

JML Coffee brews a stir

MARQUETTE - A Marquette-based company celebrated it’s first year in business by participating in the holiday parade in the city’s downtown on Friday. JML Coffee’s founder and owner Matthew Lindsey marched in the parade with a banner advertising his premium coffee and loose-leaf tea ...

LSCP Perspectives: Marquette County is open for work

Marquette County – like nearly all other areas – has focused a majority of its economic development efforts on creating jobs, continually fighting the perception that employment opportunities were scarce or low paying. While it is true that we have taken our punches over the years up here, ...

Military-themed brewery wants to open in a big Navy town

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Navy SEAL who says he shot Osama bin Laden is at the center of a much different fight in Virginia, where plans for a military-themed brewery are drawing opposition over his alleged racist and homophobic remarks. Robert J. O’Neill has a small ownership ...

Mining Journal Business Profile: Working to broaden broadband service

By Journal Staff MARQUETTE — Peninsula Fiber Network might be the best kept secret in Marquette. Or, as its General Manager Scott Randall puts it: “We occupy a very important role in telecommunications in the state of Michigan. Who would have thought a little company would end up with ...

Internet casinos thrive in 6 states

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state’s coffers and helped keep Atlantic City’s nine ...