ABC 10 HAS a new news director, its fourth in the last year or so. The station's not exactly a model of stability. Greg Peterson was fired from the job a few days ago and Sports Director Jerry Taylor took over as interim ND on Monday. He's hoping and expecting it'll become a permanent gig. He's only 26, a three and a half ... Continue Reading
Cliffs’ Latest Cut
THE LATEST NEWS out of Cliffs Natural Resources is bad and it might get worse. Cliffs Public Affairs Director Dale Hemmila, who served the company for 36 years, is out. He was informed that his job was being eliminated last Thursday morning. He was gone by Thursday afternoon. Thank you and goodbye. Hemmila, a supremely ... Continue Reading
Co-op/Farmer Partnership Frays, Marq and Cognition Delays, Cliffs Still in a Haze, and Winter’s Unpredictable Ways
A DISPUTE HAS has broken out between the Marquette Food Co-op and some of the local farmers who sell their produce to the Co-op. The Co-op is insisting that all its local farmers take part in a federal food safety program known as Good Agricultural Practices or GAP. If they don't start preparing for the GAP ... Continue Reading
FOIA Request Foiled
Remember that Kumbaya moment last week when NMU President Fritz Erickson said, "Give the North Wind all the emails they want in their FOIA request and let's not charge them a doggone dime! Can't we all just get along here?" Well, that moment has passed. On Monday, NMU did in fact forward a reported 1100 emails to Emma ... Continue Reading
Union Grill, Johnny Dogs, Hydroponics And Boathouse Battle
The For Sale sign remains in front of the Union Grill but Steinhaus owner Justin Fairbanks is, in fact, leasing the property and will convert it into his own, new restaurant within four months. No name for the restaurant yet, and they're still working on getting a conditional liquor license, but Fairbanks expects to open ... Continue Reading
Green Room Is Gone, FOIA’s Are Forthcoming
NO CHARGES FILED in the Green Room bust last week. At least, not yet. Prosecutor Matt Wiese says he still needs to review a report on what the UPSET officers came up with in the bust which, strangely, has drawn virtually no attention from other media in town. The Green Room, on West Washington, was apparently ... Continue Reading
Road Commission to Sue EPA
No more speculation. No more official denials. The Marquette County Road Commission is taking the EPA to court. The Road Commission has voted unanimously to authorize a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. Two years ago, the EPA refused to allow the Road Commission and the Rio Tinto/Lundin mine in ... Continue Reading
NMU Drops FOIA Fees for The North Wind
NMU released a statement earlier today announcing that President Fritz Erickson has asked that the FOIA fees be dropped, and that the materials requested by The North Wind be provided as soon as possible. The statement comes after two days of growing outcry over the situation, in which the student newspaper was being ... Continue Reading
FOIA FLAP, FUNDING, AND FACULTY ADVISOR FEEDBACK
UPDATE 2:45 PM: NMU President Fritz Erickson has requested that the FOIA fees be waived and that the requested materials be provided to The North Wind as soon as possible. You can read the full statement from NMU here: http://www.nmu.edu/communicationsandmarketing/node/90. -- The FOIA controversy at NMU heated up ... Continue Reading
STRAIGHTtalk: Kathleen Heideman
Brian Cabell interviews poet and painter Kathleen Heideman, who’s also the president of Save the Wild UP, and the daughter-in-law of Fred and June Rydholm. Kathleen explains how a Wisconsin farm girl ended up in Antarctica for two months and now finds herself enchanted by the Yellow Dog Plains. BC: What were you like as ... Continue Reading
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