Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Musk's spending is set to begin next month, targeting Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, and Ohio, and potentially North ...
While it might seem to some that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is throwing good money after bad fighting the invasive sea lamprey, we support continued efforts by this agency and others to rid the Great Lakes and adjacent waters of the nasty invasive species. Sea lamprey are parasitic fish native to the Atlantic Ocean that invaded the Great Lakes via shipping canals in the early 1900s. They attach to fish with a suction-cup mouth lined with sharp teeth, feed on their body fluids, killing up to 40 pounds of fish during their parasitic phase. Many Great Lakes anglers can ruefully ...
America has been a very long time in its making. It has taken 4.6 billion years to get from initial formation of the Earth to today. During that time, plate tectonic processes created pieces of land that "drifted" around the world, colliding with each other to make larger land masses like Pangaea, then rifted apart into smaller land masses that drifted apart. About 1.1 billion years ago, the Mid-Continent rift began to tear our region apart. Lake Superior overlies a segment of this rift. The Grenville Province, another drifting land mass, subsequently collided with the eastern edge of ...
To the Journal editor: It’s understandable that U.S. Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Watersmeet, does not know much about forest wilderness, living as he does, in New Orleans. But to propose sanctioning Canada for allowing its smoke to cross our border? Does he think Canada controls rainfall wind, humidity and temperature? Does he think they should have crews out thinning brush in forests that have no roads? I know he supports the president who would rather blame someone for a problem than try to fix the problem but give me a break. This is the Upper Peninsula. When neighbors have a problem, we ...
With Michigan classrooms set to reopen in a matter of weeks, doctors and public health leaders Thursday urged parents to check their children's immunization records and catch up on any missed vaccines before the first day of school. The call comes as the U.S. logs its worst measles year in 35 years, and as vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough and chickenpox continue to circulate in the state, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports in a news release. As of July 22, the U.S. had recorded 2,321 measles cases nationwide, according to the Johns Hopkins ...
As an old-school newshound — meaning I can remember typewriters — I am familiar with the old newsroom saying, "If you don't like the news, just wait a few minutes." Lately, I find myself waiting more than a few minutes for another shoe to drop in a present-day saga widely referred to as ...
