REMEMBER THAT DAY back in 1985 when NMU went big-time with the opening of an official Olympic training center? Northern joined the likes of Lake Placid and Colorado Springs as the only communities in the country with a designated United States Olympic Committee training site. We were finally on the map! Kind ... Continue Reading
An Open Letter to Rhys Mussman, Owner of the former Upfront & Company
Dear Rhys, Doug Garrison here from Word on the Street. Remember me? I met you about ten years ago during the time I was doing my TV show, The Doug Garrison Show, at your restaurant… Upfront & Company. Those were the days, huh? My memories of Upfront & Company are of a place that you could honestly ... Continue Reading
Bugsy’s World • Camping with Cannabis • Fire Alarm! • MAPS Candidate Forum • This Just In
Happy Plaidurday! The temperature dropped just in time for you to don your best plaid and celebrate Plaidurday! Plaidurday, the brain-child of local social influencer and self-proclaimed “doer of things,” Bugsy Sailor, began in earnest back in 2011, and takes place annually on the first Friday of October. The official ... Continue Reading
Getting Social • WZMQ’s New Beginning • Facebook Fatigue
From Social Distancing to Social Districting… It was just a couple weeks ago that the President announced the end of the pandemic. Granted, we’ve been inching back to normalcy for some time now, but it’s still nice to be given carte biden to shed the cloak of covid, once and for all. Notable in the comeback is ... Continue Reading
Some News… and Some Opinion
Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down The NMU Foundation held a press conference yesterday at the NMU Center to announce the official transition of the former hospital property ownership from UP Health System to the Foundation. We got to hear from some of the same people who have been out front of this deal since it ... Continue Reading
Redmen? Or What?
AS SCHOOL IS BACK in session and our sports teams are again competing on the fields and courts, it seems like a good time to revisit the MSHS mascot/branding issue. We hoped this wouldn’t still be a topic of discussion… but it is. The Indian Chief image has been scrubbed from the scene, but apparently no official decision ... Continue Reading
Hotel- DENIED Restaurants- CLOSED
IN A DECISION THAT may have surprised some, but not many, the Marquette Planning commission has denied a local developer’s application for a Special Land Use Permit to build a 4-story hotel, just off Lakeshore Boulevard, across from Picnic Rocks. The action took place before a packed house Tuesday night in the ... Continue Reading
Attorney General’s Office Offers (No) Opinion
In what seems like a surprisingly quick response to State Representative Sara Cambensy’s request for an investigation into the former hospital property project being engineered by the NMU Foundation, the Attorney General’s office has weighed in with a letter to Cambensy in which they indicate they aren’t going to ... Continue Reading
Things that make you go… grrr! And another restaurant?
UPDATING LAST WEEK'S ARTICLE about the proposed hotel project near Picnic Rocks on Lakeshore Boulevard... Apparently the mechanism by which such projects are approved or denied does not include our city commission. The Planning Commission, an appointed board, is the governing body that will rule on a developer’s ... Continue Reading
Under the Influence… Hotels and Spaceports
THE IDEA THAT YOU CAN'T fight city hall might be put to the test with a couple upcoming projects, notably the proposed hotel on Lakeshore Boulevard, and the more deliberative Spaceport project at Granot Loma. First, we should acknowledge that we don’t actually know how “city hall” feels about either of these ... Continue Reading
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