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New police academy grads all have jobs

Call it a sign of the times but the recent graduates from the Northern Michigan University Public Safety Institute all had jobs before they left the university. “It is amazing to see,” training director Adam Maynard told The Mining Journal. “All of them are already hired. A lot of the times you’d exit the academy and look for a job. We are so short on officers that departments are hiring to put people in the academy.” According to NMU, the 20 new would-be officers will be spread out among a dozen departments across the Upper Peninsula. The graduates went through a 16-week ...

Be aware of deadly radon gas

Lung cancer is most preventable by not smoking. But what about being exposed to a colorless, odorless radioactive gas? Have you ever pondered about your lungs being poisoned slowly over time and eventually this form of ionizing radiation leads to cancer? Did you know that you could catch this deadly carcinogen while sitting at home, breathing in your living room air? Radon is the No. 1 leading cause of lung cancer deaths in nonsmokers with more than 20,000 people dying each year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. This gas is a natural product of Uranium 238 ...

Wisconsin warnings helpful for Michigan motorists too

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles has launched a new website to help alert and educate consumers about scammers posing as the DMV and demanding payment or requesting personal information. And while officially tied to Wisconsin — Michigan doesn’t have a DMV — much of what is posted on the new site still is good advice for handling scams in this state. Michigan does have an overall site for all types of scams as well, at https://www.michigan.gov/consumerprotection/scams. In a news release, the Wisconsin DMV calls the new website, ...

Owners urged to vaccinate their animals

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is reminding owners to talk to their veterinarian about vaccinations for their pets and livestock, protecting them against diseases carried by other animals and insects like mosquitoes. “While you should always work with your veterinarian to determine what is best for the health of your animals, ensuring your animals are fully vaccinated plays a critical role in preventing numerous diseases,” said state veterinarian Dr. Nora Wineland, DVM, MS, DACVPM. “Since some diseases — like rabies — affect both animals and ...

Trump’s pick wants to devalue dollar

President Trump likes to stir things up, and he's done it again with his choice of Stephen Miran to fill an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. We can't recall when a president nominated to the Fed someone whose abiding policy conviction is to weaken the U.S. dollar. Mr. Miran has been chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in Mr. Trump’s second term. He’s an ardent promoter of the president’s economic policies, especially tariffs. For Mr. Miran, this is a matter of conviction. Before his White House days he offered a detailed case for rewriting ...

Gerrymandering arms race on horizon

“I just want to find 11,780 votes,” President Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a recorded phone call two months after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s goal was to retroactively inflate his Georgia vote total in order win a state he’d lost and tip the Electoral College his way — to cheat his way to re-election, in other words. Raffensperger, to his eternal credit, refused that corrupt directive from a president of his own party. If only Republican state lawmakers in Texas, Missouri and other red states today had that kind ...