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Editorial

Volunteers for hospice badly needed

Hospice of Michigan provides a meaningful and important service, helping to ensure compassionate end-of-life care for patients. To do that, Hospice depends on teams of volunteers to spend time with patients to make sure their final days are filled with companionship. Now, hospice is in ...

Community foundation grant cycle starting up

The Marquette Community Foundation is a gem of an organization, handling most of its business of supporting local organizations and individuals quietly and without a lot of fanfare. Now, however, the foundation wants everyone to know that its about to start giving away money, and quite a lot ...

Norvovirus cases growing nationwide

Most people in Superiorland and beyond are aware that the COVID-19 virus is sneaking, so to speak, back onto the front burner. An increasing number of cases are being reported nationwide; virtually everyone locally knows someone who has gotten sick recently. All of that said, it appears ...

NMU students learn by doing in innovative program

There’s an old employment and education saying that holds, approximately, there’s nothing like actually doing the work. Our interpretation of that, approximately, is that more, and better learning, takes place when actual work is undertaken and completed. A pair of Northern Michigan ...

Relief checks should be distributed fairly

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has announced her Lowering MI Cost plan which would eliminate the state’s retirement tax and increase tax credits for working families. Perhaps the one aspect of her plan that got the most attention from the average taxpayer is Whitmer’s plan to issue ...

Respect each other, the rest will fall in place

Generation Z is entering the workforce, growing up, and making an impact. Gen Z is the youngest generation with adult members. The exact ages considered Gen Z are often debated, but a general understanding is that Gen Z is made up of individuals born between 1996 and 2012. That includes ...