Between the late 19th and 20th centuries, labor unions came and went at Copper Country mines. When the area's copper mines organized in the early 1940s, they were organized under the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, CIO. The IUMMSW was an outgrowth of the former ...
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just ...
I fell in love with audiobooks when my kids were young. We would stop at the library before a road trip and choose a few for our drive. I still love audiobooks. Many times it's a good audiobook that gets the chores done and the house clean. These days I use Audible or the library's Libby ...
“Well I was born in a small town, and I can breathe in a small town. Gonna die in this small town and that's probably where they'll bury me,” – John Mellencamp Just inside the Ontonagon-Houghton county line, situated along Mill Pond Road, is a small dam across Trout Creek — a ...
News broke recently that former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of metastatic prostate cancer. The disease, which has now spread to his bones, is life-threatening and deeply serious. Let me say this clearly: Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted ...
Patriotism and sacrifice have a long history in the United States of America. They are abstract ideals, but how does our current American culture view them? Patriotism is the love of your country, the place you call home, but so many today find home is a place that can be very movable, and so ...