On Tuesday, Dickinson County voters will have the opportunity to renew the Bay College Iron Mountain Campus millage — a renewal, not a new tax — that has supported local students, families and businesses for nearly 20 years. Bay College is more than a campus; it’s an economic engine and ...

Why is there this continuous assault on education? It is being applied at all levels, with President Donald Trump attacking Harvard and Columbia universities, Congress clawing back money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and our own Dickinson Country Board defunding the MSU Extension ...

The Dickinson Area Chamber of Commerce proudly supports the renewal of the 0.9987-mill property tax for Bay College’s Iron Mountain Campus, which will appear on Tuesday's ballot. This is not a new tax, but the continuation of vital funding that has sustained our local campus since 2007 and ...

Does anyone else feel like our federal and local governments are run by emotional, adolescent, white cis gender boys? If you have raised a boy or spent years in the classroom with that age, you know they exhibit the following traits: a feeling of indestructability, underdeveloped critical ...

You've seen me. I'm the lady in a power wheelchair with a yellow Labrador at her side. He's a service dog (extraordinaire), and I’m his imperfect handler. In my life, I have many roles — mom, friend, attorney, and volunteer. My dog, on the other hand, has one job: To pay attention to ...

EDITOR: Thank you, Dickinson County residents. Twenty years ago, my parents, Ted and Eleanor Fornetti, donated family land in the hope that Bay College could have an Iron Mountain campus. Thanks to you, a millage was passed supporting the need to have access to affordable education and the ...