Forest management realities in the Upper Peninsula
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule was controversial a quarter-century ago, and it appears it remains so today. Environmental advocacy groups are coming out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. Most of the Roadless Area — a federal designation — lies in a handful of western states. Michigan has only 16,000 acres of designated Roadless Area. For the most part, nobody in their right mind would venture into most of it, as more than half is practically an impenetrable ...
Almanac for Oct. 1, 2026
Today is Thursday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2026. There are 91 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 1, 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman opened fire from a room at the high-rise Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 fans at a country music concert below, causing 60 deaths and more than 850 injuries. Also on this date: In 1890, Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress. In 1903, the first modern baseball World Series began, with the National League's Pittsburgh Pirates defeating the American ...
James Talarico's unconvincing Christian progressivism
James Talarico may not think that God is nonbinary anymore, but he's certain that He's in favor of universal healthcare. The Texas Senate candidate posted a riff on X about how the Bible is the foundation of his progressivism. Supposedly, through happy coincidence, Our Savior agrees with ...
UPPCO customers shouldn’t be asked to shoulder steep rate hike
Just too much. That’s our position on the Upper Peninsula Power Co. asking its customers for a $17.3 million rate increase, when people and families have already been pushed to the limit by skyrocketing grocery bills and gasoline costs that are closing in on $5 per gallon Added up, that’s why the Michigan Public Service Commission, the state regulatory agency that has the final say on electrical raters, should reject UPPCO’s rate request as submitted, a proposed hike that would produce an average 15.6% increase for residential customers. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and ...