EDITOR: Over the past three years I have had the privilege to be a part of the Delta County Cancer Alliance located here in Escanaba and serving all of Delta County. I will say my participation in this Alliance has been very humbling. This non-profit organization has served thousands of ...

EDITOR: When we change to Daylight Savings Time, we gain an extra hour of daylight, or so it is believed. This simply changes the clock, not the number of hours of light during the day. A similar fallacy is now playing out in the attacks on Israel with the backing of Iran. We provide billions ...

EDITOR: The autumnal equinox has passed, and fall is upon us. Leaves are turning color and there is a nip in the air. Some parts of the U.P. have already had frost. Time to shake the mothballs out of the warm-woolies. Consider this scenario... A couple bus loads of perhaps 100 illegal ...

EDITOR: I am old enough to remember Walter Cronkite, the Huntley/Brinkley report, and I was in my teens when Watergate happened. We watched the “news” back then and most everything was pretty straightforward. Now, we have the “news” media that is split; liberal and conservative. For ...

EDITOR: A lot of you are aware of a severe shortage of rental properties in Escanaba. There are some solutions, we just have to look “outside the box.” I drive all over town. There are several houses that have sat empty for a couple of decades. I am not sure why. One house is supposed ...

EDITOR: Didn’t go to Woodstock, did go to one of the first “Earth Days” (1970) in Ann Arbor. It is not uncommon to hear “Woodstock” as a concept that altered many facets of American life. It is still used as a point of reference in our culture. “Earth Day… not so much, even ...