Officials in Copper Country are rushing to unclog culverts before the next round of heavy rain or melting snow again swamps homes. Some residents are calling for more dramatic action to reshape dangerous drainage systems dating back to mining boom days.
Upper Peninsula
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Slideshow | Michigan’s Upper Peninsula picks up pieces after epic floods
View photos as Copper Country recovers from this summer’s floods
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Hancock nonprofit plays outsized role in Upper Peninsula flood recovery
Few Yoopers will get insurance payouts after the floods, and homeowners have yet to get federal aid. Nearly 500 have applied for a Portage Health Foundation program to fill in those gaps.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Northern Michigan residents “ho hum” over Detroit’s bankruptcy.
Ask just about any northern Michigander about Detroit’s bankruptcy and they’ll tell you much the same—should have happened 20 years ago. After moving here some 41 years ago from Lansing myself and eventually becoming the editor and publisher of the Petoskey News-Review, I have found the attitude towards Detroit hasn’t changed much. Probably the strongest […]
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No Michigan poet laureate? In the U.P., a grassroots campaign
TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR WORDS?: How can a region “by the shores of Gitche Gumee” not have a poet laureate? (Bridge photo by Nancy Derringer) No less an authority than the Library of Congress notes that Michigan has no poet laureate, a shortcoming we share with Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In national benchmarks […]
Posted inBusiness Watch
Death trend stalks Northern Michigan
Kurt Metzger is director of Data Driven Detroit, a nonprofit in Detroit established by foundations to build greater capacity for people to work together, and improve lives and communities affiliated with the Michigan Nonprofit Association. He was research director for United Way for Southeastern Michigan from 2005 to 2008 and before that, was a director […]
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U.P. natives reveal the good places to eat, without a pasty among them
HAY THERE, PICKFORD: That’s the Main Street Café in the background, but if you show up between July 31 and Aug. 4, you can enjoy Pickford’s Hay Days festival along with the whitefish special. (Courtesy photo/Pickford Community Library) Novelist Jim Harrison once observed that the farther north you travel in Michigan, the worse the food […]
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Class in Upper Peninsula school sparks students’ interest in powering the world
MARQUETTE — Doug Elliott’s class at Ishpeming’s Westwood High School goes way beyond the focus of many a shop class: making wooden birdhouses, shelves and such. Elliott’s students get into computer numerical control and sensors. Entitled “Survival in an Electrical World,” the class covers the basics and far more. An advanced class, for example, gets […]
Posted inTalent & Education
MEA faces breakaways, poaching of locals
Just months after Right to Work was enacted in Michigan, Michigan Education Association local units are looking to depart the mothership. MEA NO MORE: Teachers in the Roscommon schools decided in 2012 to leave the Michigan Education Association and form their own independent bargaining unit. (courtesy photo) MEA leaders say local units have left – and […]
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Under the postcard-perfect U.P., a reality only natives see
WHAT DO YOU SEE?: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a land of grand vistas, but also a land of blood, of joblessness, of heartache, writes Ron Riekki. (Bridge photo/Nancy Derringer) I’ve lived in Mount Pleasant, Oshtemo, Forest Park, Rogers Park, and worked in Chicago, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Oak Park and Mackinac Island. I’m probably forgetting some places. […]
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