The correct word for loophole when discussing critical data is “blind spot.”
To District Health Department No. 10 Clinical Supervisor George Davis-Williams, who earned the Nursing Section Award for Public Health Nursing Practice.
With so many things in government, we tend to take an “everybody else is doing it” approach.
Apparently silence isn’t priceless.
Some words we could live without hearing again this year, words like “unprecedented.”
Eight months.
To Treetops Resort in Gaylord, which secured a Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (CPACE) loan. Treetops worked with Lean & Green Michigan to secure the funding.
Michiganders simply don’t view numbers the same way they did one year ago.
Most of us walk past the concrete slab wall that separates the Boardman River from the alley north of Front Street without giving it a thought. It’s been there so long that it is stained with the patina of age. It is far from glamorous. It’s one of those local features few of us think about …
News that Nestlé Waters North America would have new owners — One Rock Capital Partners and Metropoulos & Co. — made waves, at first.
There is no perfect answer.
To Traverse City’s Katherine DeYoung, who is set to perform in the “Sole e Amore” concert through the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. DeYoung is a mezzo soprano in her first year with the Ryan Opera Center, an artist-development program.To Blake Rowe and Isaac Hin…
Taxpayers simply aren’t getting what they’re paying for from Grand Traverse County commissioners.
All ice isn’t created equal.
So much of plumbing — especially when it comes to the unpleasant business of our bathroom waste, dirty dishwater and stinky sock residue — is thankfully out of sight, out of mind for most of us.
Money doesn’t solve problems, but it can accelerate solutions.
To Bob Giles. The National Writers Series presented Giles with this year’s Bill Montgomery Literary Service Award. Giles, of Traverse City, most recently penned the book “When Truth Mattered: The Kent State Shootings 50 Years Later.”
Few scenes are more beautiful than a frigid February morning in the woods of northern Michigan.
Sometimes we humans need to hear things repeated. Not because we’re hard of hearing (though many of us are) but because it takes awhile to abide a call to action.
Traverse City Area Public Schools students this week received report cards — the first some parents have seen since March 2020. Those reports, along with periodic testing data, tells the story of 11 months of difficult times for teachers and students.
To the United Way of Northwest Michigan, the Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan and their volunteers, who distributed free KN95 masks outside Turtle Creek Stadium on Thursday morning in Traverse City. United Way President Seth Johnson said the line reached from the stadium parking lo…
We’ve had fun. We sledded when we would’ve been chipping ice. We skied when we would’ve shoveled. We turned our faces to the sun multiple days in a row.
Recently Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican Senate leader Mike Shirkey acknowledged they haven’t spoken with each other since March. Eleven months ago. Or, maybe they spoke once.
The more cynical among us didn’t get their hopes up.
To the greater northwest Lower Michigan community for its generosity during a difficult time. The Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation celebrated one of its most successful years in 2020, bringing in a whopping $15.6 million.
Calling it an “act of God” sounds about right.
More than 400,000 Michiganders are employed in food and agriculture, according Michigan State University’s Center for Regional Health Systems. Or at least that’s how many of our neighbors, friends and family members earned their paychecks feeding us before the pandemic hit. The number certai…
Here comes you and your family down the sidewalk, enjoying a northern Michigan winter’s walk.
At a moment when discourse in our nation seems to have reached an all-time low, along came Ron Clous and his rifle.
To Boyne City’s Kaila Kuhn, who took third at last weekend’s International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup stop in Russia while representing the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team.
The journey toward the football state championship game is a grueling uphill slog every fall.
It’s time for a fresh start, the kind of beginning rooted in unified purpose.
Several shoulders sagged in our older population this weekend.
It’s the effect, not the name, that matters.
To the six Traverse City area football teams that have made the deepest playoff run in northern Michigan history: TC Central, St. Francis, Grayling, Suttons Bay, Cadillac and Johannesburg-Lewiston. All teams will play for a state semifinal position, except for the Suttons Bay Norsemen (10-0)…
It’s an understatement to say Michigan’s government transparency record is dismal.
It’s a long road to 70 percent.
Funding for the Great Lakes is not unlike its levels.
If President Donald Trump loves this country as he professes, he will resign, now.
To northwest Michigan’s Conservation Resource Alliance for its Wild Roots program, which began in 2019 with a bold goal — to plant 100,000 native seedlings in five years. The initiative now launches year three with 32,000 in the ground and 68,000 to go.
The concept isn’t the hard sell — most agree that allowing invasive Asian carp into the Great Lakes would devastate them.
Not in our lifetime.
Because, reasons.
No good deed will go unpunished.
To Larry and Ted Fleis. Both are successful business owners and founders of the Ed & Irene Fleis Education Fund, which in 2021 will give out $71,500 in scholarships to 65 students.
Today starts the beginning of scribble-out season, the short, tender transition of writing the wrong dates on things, and crossing them out.
Nothing about the past year has been particularly easy for anyone.
Google is, and should be, under a microscope.
To Munson Healthcare, which got its first shipment of nearly 3,000 Pfizer vaccines last week and began immunizing frontline health care workers on Dec. 18.