UP200 IT'S BEEN A ROUGH DECADE SO FAR for our beloved UP200 Sled Dog Race. Between the effects of Covid 19 and weather unexpected in a U.P. February, the race has seen three cancellations in six years. Yet, with the support of sponsors and the community, the race survives. Since its inception in 1990, the ... Continue Reading
Last Call? • You’ve Got Mail
Last Call? Been to Palmer lately? No? Well, that might be one reason The Cade, Palmer’s only bar, and one of the last businesses still open, might be closing down for good. I say, “might be,” because, according to current owner Taylor Nellist, a sale is pending. But here's what I know about pending sales… ... Continue Reading
Villa Gone for Good • Mahaney Speaks • The E-bike Dilemma
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