DEAR DR. ROACH: You’ve argued against veterinary ivermectin. It’s the same ivermectin that’s safely used for adults. Work out dose per kilo weight of patient. Why pretend that it’s not safe, when it’s a drug safely used for 70 years? It is better than remdesivir and other drugs that ...

I hated college history. The textbooks were mostly about dead white men, Abigail Adams excepted. The lectures were boring. I didn’t see how any of it related to my young life and future plans. Historian David McCullough, who died this week at age 89, helped change my attitude toward history ...

By 1900, the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company had become one of the most complex non-ferrous metal mining plants in the United States. It had been built upon the single richest copper lode in the United States, east of the Mississippi River and was wealthy enough to satisfy its stockholders, ...

It’s a saying we have all heard throughout our lives, “you don’t know how good you have it, till it’s gone.”  Some use it as a reference to a parent or family member.  Some use that phrase for material possessions and some employers use it when they lose an employee. In the Copper ...

Last week, we talked about the significance of the diamond drill in re-initiating mining production on copper properties previously thought to be worthless or mined out. Not only was diamond drilling instrumental in 20th century ventures in the Ontonagon region, as we talked about last week, ...

WASHINGTON -- The old lament that everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it was never more appropriate than now. The summer heat that is currently torching Europe and and North America has come to President Biden’s doorstep in a way that demands much more than ...