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Editorials

A week to recognize those who practice family medicine

Most families have a specific physician or nurse practitioner they’ve perhaps seen for generations. Family medicine is a specialty practiced by physicians with extensive training to provide care for people of all ages, from birth through end of life. Practitioners have expertise in treating ...

Way should be cleared for FDA OK of Paxlovid

We urge the Food and Drug Administration to do whatever is necessary to expedite full regulatory approval for Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid. The medication has been used by millions of Americans — including many right here in the Upper Peninsula — since the FDA granted it emergency ...

Tornado drill set for Severe Weather Week

While we in the Upper Peninsula still have snow and ice very much in place, spring technically arrives at 4:24 p.m. Central time today. So it’s worth thinking about being prepared for the storms of spring to come, even if for this region they might be weeks away. Especially when it’s been ...

Thanks to those who keep community safe

Bouquet: Reading Thursday’s Daily News, I was amazed to see how many different issues the Dickinson County Sheriff's Department has handled in the month of February: 102 complaints, 20 accidents, 26 citations, 70 warnings, 12 arrests, and 186 property checks. Besides all of this, the dispatch ...

Rewrite needed for literacy help in state

The story of Michigan’s third-grade reading retention law was destined to be a beach read — short, gritty and perhaps soon forgotten, as a bill for repeal heads to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk, where it will likely be signed. The law itself, passed in 2016’s Republican Legislature ...

SWP expanding influence in the UP

They’ve done it again. The folks at the Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Conservancy, based in Marquette, recently announced the purchase and protection of more than 4 miles of waterfront property on the Sturgeon River in Dickinson County. The project was completed in partnership with ...