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
BATTLE AT NMU
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. An intriguing conflict, fraught with ... Continue Reading
Musical Chairs, Harbor Cruises, Food Trucks, Oil Refineries, and a Meth Epidemic
LISTEN CAREFULLY. YOU hear the music? They're playing musical chairs downtown. Reblossom, which specializes in upscale but gently used women's clothing, is leaving its current address on January 24th and moving a few blocks east to 104 West Washington (the former Moonstone Gallery location). This will be the third move ... Continue Reading
Dunham’s Shutdown, Delft Bistro, CR 595, TV News Ratings, & Root 41
FOUR DAYS. That's how much notice Dunham's Sports employees were given on Tuesday morning. They were told the store would be closing down on Saturday. It was a lease problem, one of the employees said. Big sales the rest of the week? Maybe a few, but you won't find "Everything Must Go!!" signs. Dunham's plans to move its ... Continue Reading
Meijer Inquiries, Marijuana Defiance, Hospital Future, Cliffs Magic Trick, and an Idle Longboat
If you're one of those shoppers desperately hoping for news that Costco is expanding into Marquette, sorry, this ain't it. No Costco sightings yet. However, two property owners on US 41 in Marquette Township report that they were recently approached by a representative of Meijer, the superstore from downstate, to see if ... Continue Reading
595 Revival, Hospital Feedback, Rahoi Settlement, Museum Collaboration, and Taco Mystery
COUNTY ROAD 595 ain't dead yet, not by a long shot. The Marquette County Road Commission is getting ready to sue the Environmental Protection Agency which rejected the proposed 595 cut-through in northern Marquette County in 2013. That's right, a county agency is going to be suing a federal agency Interesting. And what's ... Continue Reading
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