This Enbridge scheme to dig a tunnel beneath the Mackinac Straits instead of abandoning and removing the existing 72-year-old pipeline is a boondoggle, and would put our most valuable resource, fresh water, at risk with little long term benefit. Here is why. First, well before 100 years, oil ...

The Federal Department of Labor is suggesting we should eliminate the minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, a testing ground to see if they can get away with eliminating minimum wage requirements for everyone. A recent news story I read indicated that Michigan workers need to ...

Before his re-election, Trump promised to be a dictator on day one. Has any other U.S. president-elect ever made such a statement? Trump recently demanded that Barack Obama be prosecuted for treason, based on no evidence. Trump fired a labor statistician because he didn't like the job ...

State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, who represents the 110th District, recently introduced House Resolution 151 urging the federal government to purchase the former Ojibway Correctional Facility in Gogebic County. Markkanen suggests the federal government could turn the facility into a ...

I just finished reading Clarence Page's (column) in The Mining Journal on Aug. 19 (Tuesday). In it, he tells of a man that was arrested in Washington, D.C. because he "forcefully threw" a wrapped hoagie at a Customs and Border Protection officer. He was arrested and charged with "assaulting, ...

To the Journal editor: I am concerned about the eyesore on Lakeshore (Boulevard), the old Coco‘s restaurant site. The grass is hip high. The outside of the building is surrounded with growing weeds, part of the old signage still exists and often a boat and vehicle are parked on the ...