"I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT the MeToo movement, but sometimes the pendulum swings back too far. It just seems like there's no longer a presumption of innocence." Defense attorney Karl Numinen makes this observation as he sits back, sipping a cup of coffee at Babycakes the day after he won a case in Circuit Court. A case ... Continue Reading
A Jazz Bar in Marquette
FOR A TOWN of 21,000 people located at the far northern reaches of the Midwest, Marquette is starting to act more like a cosmopolitan city of a half million or so. A jazz bar will be opening downtown this summer. That's right, a freaking jazz bar--compliments of Karl Numinen, one of the U.P.'s most prominent ... Continue Reading
Country Village Woes Continue, New Cigar Club Lights Up, Huron Mountain Bakery Offers Something New, Michigan Made Expands, and an Ex Legislator Finds a New Calling–in the Woods
ANOTHER DOMINO HAS fallen at Country Village. The latest one at the sprawling business complex in Ishpeming? The laundromat, which shut down a few days ago. This, after a gas station and a restaurant closed up in the last couple of months. A fitness center also locked their doors earlier in the year. The latest ... Continue Reading
A Tale of Two Pot Stores, a TV Station Swap, and New Life for an Old Building
QUESTION: WHY WOULD two stores three miles apart and selling exactly the same product--marijuana--be treated differently? One was busted by law enforcement and forced to shut down earlier this year, while the other continues to operate and prosper five years after it opened. It's a question that epitomizes the absurdity, ... Continue Reading