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Going against the green
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LANSING — Last week, Michigan House Republicans announced their commitment to repealing the 2023 law requiring utility providers to run 100% on “clean energy” by 2040. In 2023, Michigan lawmakers passed legislation, along party lines, requiring the state to achieve net-zero carbon ...
Life after radio
Life
ONTONAGON — Ontonagon resident and Upper Peninsula radio legend, Jan Tucker is approaching five years since her final broadcast in April 2021. Tucker a fixture in the western Upper Peninsula airwaves for 52 years. Her broadcasts were aired on WJMS and WIMI in Ironwood, WMPL in Hancock and ...
A tough act to follow
Life
HOUGHTON — Most people live their lives day-to-day not stopping to recognize their accomplishments have reached historic proportions until it is brought to their attention. Among those people who have become historic in their lifetimes is Betty Chavis. In 1989, while she was working in the ...
Why we celebrate
Life
On this page of today's Daily Mining Gazette, we finish a task we started Saturday in honoring several amazing Copper Country women, both past and present. Space did not allow for all stories to be contained in one issue, which explains the additional page today. Each March, communities around ...
Dear Annie
Features
Dear Annie: I'm having a problem that feels small, but it's starting to make me dread seeing someone I care about. One of my closest friends has gotten into the habit of "correcting" me in public. If I tell a story, she interrupts to adjust a detail. If I mention a restaurant, she jumps in ...