Patagium Archives - Word on the Street

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

By Brian Cabell on October 31, 2018 at 5:00 am

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

Questions for Substance Abuse Patients, Hope for the Nordic Theater, Zero Degrees Progress, a Sailing Entrepreneur, NMU on NBC, and a Man with Class Leaves Us

By Brian Cabell on December 28, 2017 at 5:45 am

MURMURINGS FROM INSIDE the UP Health System Marquette. We're hearing that the new $300 million hospital being built out on the highway won't offer inpatient substance abuse services. The current hospital, on the other hand, we're told, has been offering those services. Seems a little strange, given the opioid ... Continue Reading