Paramount recently announced that it will be selling Simon & Schuster, one of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses in the United States, to the private-equity firm KKR, for $1.62 billion. The acquisition vastly increases the influence of financial interests over book ...
Michigan public health leaders are urging parents to get their children caught up on vaccinations before returning to classes this fall, to prevent outbreaks of serious communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, pertussis, chickenpox and more. Vaccination rates for Michigan children ages ...
Not since the settlement of the sit-down strike at General Motors in 1937 has a United Auto Workers president been more ambitious in his contract demands than is Shawn Fain in this year’s negotiations. Walter Reuther won that earlier fight and launched the rise of the middle class. Fain, if ...
Autumn begins on Sept. 23. Let that sink in when people tell you summer is over. Sure, Northern Michigan University students are coming back, you see the occasional red maple leaf on the ground and the days are getting shorter. That doesn’t mean all is lost. For one thing, is autumn ...
First off, much thanks and praise go out to Todd Goldbeck for founding the Upper Peninsula Football All-Star Game. We can only imagine the work that has gone into making this game a smashing success year after year. Earlier this month, Goldbeck sent out an email to a wide range of media, ...
To the Journal editor: The board of Camp New Day U.P. would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people and organizations that have supported our 2023 summer camp. It was our best camp yet with 27 marvelous campers from across the Upper Peninsula supported by 15 great counselors ...