WELL, HERE IT is, the end of August, the supposed deadline for a decision on the relocation of Marquette General Hospital, so it should happen this week, right?Don't count on it, if the city's Roundhouse location is one of the two final candidates, which we hear it is.The thing is, the City Commission's subcommittee ... Continue Reading

LOOKS LIKE WE can cross one of Duke LifePoint's options off the list.The Marquette Golf Club Board Wednesday morning voted to cut off all negotiations with DLP regarding a possible location for the new Marquette General Hospital.Duke LifePoint, at last word, had been considering half of the Heritage course as one of its ... Continue Reading

IT'S NOT A sure thing yet, but it's getting there.The long awaited Nestledown Bed and Breakfast on Lakeshore Boulevard, across from Picnic Rocks, may be just a few weeks away from groundbreaking.Ken and Sue Schauland bought the property two and a half years ago and tore down the existing building with the expectation ... Continue Reading

STEVE ASPLUND AND Greg Trick will soon have a female co-anchor sitting across from them at the TV6 anchor desk.Her name is Sophie Erber, fresh out of a Masters program at the University of South Florida. She'd previously graduated from University of Tampa in the honors program.A co-anchor? We haven't seen that since the ... Continue Reading

 NO COMMENT. That's the official word coming out of Cliffs Natural Resources following the apparent...and shocking...takeover of the Cliffs board by Casablanca Capital, the activist hedge fund, on Tuesday. Final results of the voting won't be tabulated for a couple more days but Casablanca is declaring ... Continue Reading

THE DECISION IS is getting close.Duke LifePoint  has been dealing directly with the city of Marquette and Marquette Township for the last couple of weeks regarding the three possible sites for the new hospital.The township says they've now supplied Duke LifePoint with everything they need on the site behind the ... Continue Reading

CLIFFS NATURAL RESOURCES is preparing for a potentially nasty and climactic shareholders meeting and vote on July 29th.Casablanca Capital, the activist hedge fund which owns about 5% of Cliffs, is essentially attempting a coup of the company. It's putting up its own, hostile slate of candidates for the Cliffs board of ... Continue Reading

IF YOU'RE ROOTING for the city of Marquette to get the new Marquette General Hospital, you can't like this: a Duke LifePoint helicopter was observed last week conducting an aerial survey of the Township's proposed site for the new hospital.And then consider this: Duke LifePoint CEO Ed Banos recently provided an update ... Continue Reading

So now Duke LifePoint is down to the nitty-gritty of wheeling and dealing with the city, the township and the property owners over the future location of Marquette General Hospital.It's been down to three possible locations for at least a month--the Heritage Golf Course site, the so-called Roundhouse property, and ... Continue Reading