Dickinson County residents had no choice when the Michigan State University Extension and 4-H, both more-than-100-year-old programs, were stripped away by the four new Dickinson County Board members in their very first meeting in January. Since that meeting, county residents have ...

As the son of a Purdue University County Extension Agent and a former member of 4-H, I have more than a passing interest in the $81,000 defunding of the Michigan State University Extension and the 4-H coordinator after Dickinson County Board Chair Dan Harrington called 4-H "a woke, crazy ...

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 ...