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Cutting DNR stocking program a bad idea

Superiorland residents, indeed residents of the Upper Peninsula in general, who are of a certain age, cringe when the word alewife is mentioned. That’s because even an average memory will vividly recall U.P. beaches in the 1960s and 70s being a foot deep in dead alewives, reeking to high heavens, making swimming all but impossible. Where did they come from? These little invasive fish found their way into the Great Lakes from the ocean in the 19th and 20th centuries via canals. Once here, and facing no natural predators, they ate massive amounts of zooplankton, starving native fish ...

Positive movement in city dog park development

Where are the good ideas for municipal government coming from these days, ideas that address a specific need and the funding to implement it. From where we sit, good ideas along these lines have always come from both the government itself and the people it represents. Get those two elements working in tandem and things start to happen. That seems to be the case with plans to set up a summer off-leash dog park in the city of Marquette, to be located just past the NTN North Trails 550 trailhead. A lot of dog owners support this effort which was identified in the city's 2025 Master Plan ...

War against sea lamprey expensive but worth the money

While it might seem to some that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is throwing good money after bad fighting the invasive sea lamprey, we support continued efforts by this agency and others to rid the Great Lakes and adjacent waters of the nasty invasive species. Sea lamprey are parasitic fish native to the Atlantic Ocean that invaded the Great Lakes via shipping canals in the early 1900s. They attach to fish with a suction-cup mouth lined with sharp teeth, feed on their body fluids, killing up to 40 pounds of fish during their parasitic phase. Many Great Lakes anglers can ruefully ...

Families urged to vaccinate before the school year starts

With Michigan classrooms set to reopen in a matter of weeks, doctors and public health leaders Thursday urged parents to check their children's immunization records and catch up on any missed vaccines before the first day of school. The call comes as the U.S. logs its worst measles year in 35 years, and as vaccine-preventable diseases such as whooping cough and chickenpox continue to circulate in the state, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reports in a news release. As of July 22, the U.S. had recorded 2,321 measles cases nationwide, according to the Johns Hopkins ...

Houston Chronicle: Feds are still blocking an independent investigation into ICE shooting death

More than two weeks after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo dead on a Houston street, the U.S. federal government stands in the way of an independent, transparent investigation. ICE hasn’t cooperated with local law enforcement, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare told a Congressional forum in Houston on Friday. In fact, at the same time that Teare was answering representatives’ questions, his key witness was in a federal hearing about whether or not he’d even get to stay in the country. Salgado’s brother, Victor, is “by all accounts ...

US-Saudi nuclear agreement further erodes international safeguards

Even as he threatened to escalate an unlawful war sold in part as preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon, Donald Trump opened the door to proliferation in the region on Wednesday. The US announced that it had signed a deal with Saudi Arabia which would potentially allow the kingdom to enrich uranium in future and to avoid the fullest inspection rights for the international watchdog. Experts have long warned that a civilian nuclear programme could create a path towards a nuclear-armed Riyadh. Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince and de facto leader, has said that if Tehran ...