IT OFFICIALLY OPENED four years ago--Innovate Marquette, Marquette's brand new smartzone. It was this city's attempt to attract high tech entrepreneurs, nurture them, and enable them to become income-producing, job-creating businesses. It had happened all over the country--Silicon Valley, Boston, Boulder, Austin, even up ... Continue Reading
Discovering New Perspectives
TEDX RETURNS TO Marquette on Saturday. Specifically, the Forest Roberts Theater. And this year, unlike last year, everyone in the community is welcome. "Last year was frustrating," Allison Opheim, the event chairperson. "We were limited in seating and it was only for students. A lot of community members told us they ... Continue Reading
Cyber Jobs Look Promising, Unemployment Rate Drops, Angel Investors Alter Strategy, Lake Superior Level Rising, Questions Raised About Bike Path, Vollwerth Gets Write-Up, An Artist Entrepreneur, and a Family with 11 Kids
THIS STORY ISN'T drawing big headlines but it has the potential to provide a major boost to the economy in the Upper Peninsula. NMU has just been designated a cyber security hub, meaning it's going to be a center for training high school and college grads for jobs in the high-paying cyber security industry. Good jobs. ... Continue Reading
The Preserve Is Coming, the Moose Is Gone, Babycakes Is Red, the Chiropractor Is Out, Insurance Is In, Upfront Is…Busy, Cyber Security May Be Coming to Town, and Woman Confronts Bear in the Wilderness
CHANGES, CHANGES EVERYWHERE. People moving in, people moving out. Rumors swirling about. Let's start with The Preserve. It's the brainchild and business of the young men pictured above--Devin Mahoney, Tim Piirala, and Jeremy Johnson. All three of them locals, none of them older than 30. They're moving into the ... Continue Reading