MARQUETTE — Northern Michigan University has announced this year's Indigenous Perspectives Symposium on Medicines, a one-day event dedicated to exploring the traditions, significance and future of Indigenous approaches to healing and wellbeing. The symposium will be held on Friday, Sept. ...
MARQUETTE — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a response brief in Enbridge’s lawsuit over the Line 5 dual pipelines, which sits on the lakebed in the Straits of Mackinac and transport oil through the Great Lakes. Enbridge filed the lawsuit in 2020, after the Whitmer and the director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources revoked Enbridge’s easement. Whitmer’s brief challenged Enbridge’s claim that it can continue to pump oil through the Great Lakes regardless of what the State of Michigan says and reiterated that Line 5 constitutes an unparalleled risk to ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Maritime Museum and the Ore Dock Brewing Company present Great Lakes folksinger and songwriter Lee Murdock 's Songs of Superior Concert, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, at the Ore Dock Brewing Company. Noted as a fluent instrumentalist on six- and 12-string guitars, Murdock ...
Check out what PWPL book groups have been reading over the last year. Book descriptions in this article are adapted from publishers’ summaries and library catalog records. All Booked Up: “God of the Woods” by Liz Moore (FIC MOORE) —in the early morning, August 1975: a camp ...
WASHINGTON — Thousands of protesters rallied Friday on the National Mall in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm elections, following a wave of changes to voting laws and redistricting that civil rights groups have condemned as detrimental to Black ...
IRONWOOD — The advocacy group Protect the Porkies has made a statement regarding the $50 million grant Highland Copper recently received from the Michigan Strategic Fund: “On (Tuesday), the Michigan Strategic Fund — a board of unelected businesspeople — voted to approve the use of 50 million taxpayer dollars to advance the Copperwood Mine,” read their statement. “The funding had been three times denied through plain old democracy, so this fourth time the MSF employed a deceptive backdoor strategy to bypass votes from elected officials by allocating left-over funds from ...
