An artist with a message IT'S HARD TO miss if you're entering downtown Marquette from the south on Front Street. A bold, beautiful, new mural with the words, "Evolve & Stay Involved" with clasping black and white hands. Huge, on the side of the LoyalTee's building owned by Brandon Sayen. Local artist Chelsea ... Continue Reading
Restaurant Workers Are Served, the Jails Are Empty, the Controversial COVID-19 Treatment Awaits Study Results
More than $17,000 raised THAT GOFUNDME site for restaurant workers has finally closed down. Final tally? More than $17,000 raised from more than 230 donors, benefitting at least 250 local restaurant, bar, and coffee shop workers who were laid off by the governor's shutdown of non-essential businesses. Sixty dollars ... Continue Reading
Servers Getting Paid, Police Changing Procedures, Mining Journal Parent Offering Help, and Norlite Taking Precautions
GoFundMe freed up the money IT TOOK LONGER than anticipated but the money collected for restaurant, bar, and coffee shop servers has been distributed. All but a few of the 200 laid-off workers have received the cash in the last few days. The money was held up for a week by GoFundMe while it did some checking on the ... Continue Reading
GoFundMe Site Delay, Travel Marquette Help, and TV6 Social Distancing
Donors stepped up MORE THAN TWELVE thousand dollars. That's how much has been raised for Marquette's restaurant, tavern, and coffee shop workers in the last four days on a GoFundMe site. But now, this is where the story gets interesting...and frankly, discouraging. The money was raised so quickly that GoFundMe has ... Continue Reading
Help for Our Servers
LAST WEEK THE news was all about the spread of the coronavirus and the plunging of the stock market. Next week and in the weeks ahead, those crises will have to share the headlines with the inevitable and daunting economic challenges facing millions of regular Americans. Folks who've been making daily and weekly ... Continue Reading