The Undeniable End Everything has a life span. Living organisms, and even inanimate objects, have an expiration date. There’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. In that order. Some time ago, as I was being released from an assignment, the guy doing the releasing told me, “Nothing ever ends well.” Was that supposed ... Continue Reading
Just BeCause • Other Words of Interest
The Evolution of a Cause Long before most of us were around, in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio. After funding Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine, and essentially eradicating that disease, the organization closed up shop and everybody went ... Continue Reading
Defamation Lawsuit Unresolved, News Media Squeezed, and Hope for New COVID Financial Aid
Negotiations continue STILL NO RESOLUTION in the local Black Lives Matter/defamation legal case. And now a fourth business, Lake Superior Pizza, has joined the suit, charging that a local man, Raymond Little, defamed them by describing them on Facebook as racist and calling for a boycott of their businesses. The other ... 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
Mining Journal to Eliminate Sunday Newspaper
IN TWO MORE weeks, the Sunday edition of the Mining Journal will disappear. Marquette's hometown newspaper, more than 150 years old, will be published only six days a week. The new Saturday paper, called Morning U.P., will be essentially a combined Saturday-Sunday edition, including the advertising inserts and specials ... Continue Reading