The holidays are here, which means getting together with relatives and friends, attending special celebrations, buying gifts and just getting in a festive mood. What will kill a festive mood, though, is becoming a victim of a consumer scam. With the rise in purchasing items in person or ...

Hero is a word that gets tossed around quite a lot this days. It’s applied, inappropriately we believe, to everyone from political leaders to sports personalities. However, actual heroes — people who go above and beyond in service to others — were recognized recently by the Department ...

Today is special — it’s GivingTuesday, a worldwide effort to encourage generosity. As its website, givingtuesday.org, explains, “GivingTuesday reimagines a world built upon shared humanity and generosity.” Potential targets for this generosity, of course, are everwhere. Last year, ...

Merriam-Webster has announced it is adding about 500 new words to its 7th edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. I doubt most people will ever use them in conversation or in writing, but they will be beneficial when playing the board game. Meanwhile, the corruption of the ...

The Salvation Army and The Mining Journal have officially geared up to start the 2022 Christmas Cheer Club. The Salvation Army is in contact with families who lack the resources to buy their kids gifts during the holiday season in Marquette County. All toys donated in the “Cheer Club” ...

If you look back on the formation of the towns and cities in the United States, there was really no distinction between “big business” and “small business.” Business was just business — one person provided goods and services, for which they were compensated by someone else. Whether ...