Michigan’s parks and natural areas are part of the fabric of our state, and we should take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to assure the ability to care for them forever.
Upper Peninsula
Posted inBusiness Watch
Michigan’s northern state parks may add worker housing
Competition for workers and a lack of rental homes in the Upper Peninsula prompted the state to convert an unused building at Tahquamenon Falls. Next up: the Porcupine Mountains, with more housing options likely to follow in northern Michigan.
Posted inBusiness Watch
Fewer boaters and wine tasters. Will $5 gas sink Michigan summer tourism?
Fewer boats at a Rogers City marina. Wine-tasting crowd down in Leelanau County. New worries about travel costs Up North. This summer was supposed to be different. But warning signs mount for Michigan’s travel industry.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Michigan deer hunters decline as pandemic boost in hunting wanes
Michigan’s deer hunting license sales that jumped during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic are slumping again.
Posted inTalent & Education
Q&A: Michigan Teacher of the Year advocates for mental health, retention resources
The Escanaba first grade teacher will be spending time away from the classroom next school year to advocate for mental health resources, as well as employee retention and recruitment plans statewide.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Michigan Great Lakes: Expect lower waters, ample fish and a hot summer
This is why we love Michigan. What to expect in terms of weather, beach cover and water conditions on the Great Lakes.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
The bird flu: Clean your birdfeeder right now
Federal officials early this year detected highly contagious influenza in wild birds in over 30 U.S. states, the biggest avian flu outbreak since 2015.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Michigan superintendent makes proposals to prevent school shootings
We cannot continue to have Oxfords and Uvaldes every year. Our alternatives are either to change the ease of obtaining guns or harden the security of school buildings, or both.
Posted inTalent & Education
Hillsdale to consider banning Harry Potter as library wars hit Michigan
The southern Michigan city’s library is considering a proposal to ban books about the boy wizard, the latest in a series of controversies statewide over racy graphic novels and books about LGBTQ and civil rights that have made library board meetings a lot less sleepy lately.
Posted inMichigan Health Watch
Suicide stalks rural Michigan
The 15 Michigan counties with the highest suicide rates from 2005 through 2020 were all rural. Experts point to isolation, job loss and lack of mental health care as key contributors to rural despair.