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Opinion

Shoot those drones

Columns

The skies over New Jersey have been littered with strange flying objects during the past two weeks; and the feds are either hiding the truth from terrified folks on the ground or scratching their collective heads along with the rest of us. Since early December, there have been between 3,000 and ...

Boston Globe says US should engage in Syria

Columns

The tyrant is gone. After 13 years of civil war and 50 years under the repressive Assad regimes, Syrians have every reason to celebrate. Bashar al-Assad is safely ensconced in Russia, which had long supported his prison state with arms, fighter jets, and forces from the mercenary Wagner ...

Marquette area steps up during holiday season

Editorial

With Christmas fast approaching, several charitable efforts around the Marquette area and throughout the Upper Peninsula have shown that the community in Superiorland is willing to step up to the plate in times of need. Anyone who has been reading The Mining Journal over the past few weeks ...

No taxpayer cash for mine waste

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: Sometimes I have conversations about mining with people who tell me, ‘mining is our heritage in the Upper Peninsula; we’ve been doing it forever. I counter, saying Lake Superior is our heritage. It’s what connects Yoopers and visitors to this land, and it has ...

Herculean effort to keep Trump happy

Columns

The older he gets, the bigger the baby. Donald Trump has turned the U.S. government into one giant pacifier to calm his fear of seeming less than all-powerful. Consider those billionaires now dropping bags of gold at his feet, concerned that he would use his presidential powers to hurt ...

Ishpeming Lions Club steps up for the holidays

Editorial

The holidays have long been referred to as the season of giving, and that doesn’t always mean bright, shiny packages. The Ishpeming Lions Club recently donated $1,016 worth of food to the Ishpeming St. Vincent de Paul Society Store, along with a donation of fresh vegetables from the ...