The state board of education is expected to vote today on guidelines for schools to create a comfortable environment for LGBT students. Part of those recommendations will include recommending that schools let transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms with the gender they identify with. It’s generated a lot of …
Read More »EPA Taps Michigan Tech For New Region 5 Environmental Finance Center
Michigan Tech is known for both its engineering and environmental know-how and its resources. Add to that the School of Business and Economics, the Great Lakes Research Center and a campus-wide commitment to multidisciplinary work, and you have just what the US Environmental Protection Agency is looking for. The EPA …
Read More »More Events Surrounding Parade of Nations
Parade of Nations week continues with events leading up to Saturday’s annual parade and Multicultural Festival. On Wednesday, the Keweenaw Roller Girls will host a free Open Skate for all ages at the Houghton County Arena in Hancock. The event runs from 6:30pm to 7:30pm and participants must bring their own …
Read More »Donated Bikes Destroyed By Vandal
Authorities are looking for those responsible for vandalizing a group of donated bicycles in Hubbell over the weekend. Local resident Fran Monville says he has carried on the work at Ernie’s Service Station of restoring the bicycles so someone else could enjoy them. So it’s a mystery why someone would …
Read More »Breakthrough Treatment May Help Local Woman With MS
A relatively new treatment may offer hope for those living with multiple sclerosis. 59-year-old Laura Erkkila of Tamarack Location is one of those individuals. Laura has been suffering from MS for over 20 years. She has been confined to a wheelchair for the last 12. But that may no longer …
Read More »Schools Report Over 4,400 Concussions
An average of six student athletes at every high school suffered a concussion during the last school year. For the first time, the Michigan High School Athletic Association ordered every high school to report concussions in it’s athletes. The results–over 4,400 reported concussions, says spokesman John Johnson.
Read More »Underpaid Workers Protest In Lansing
As part of a National Day of Action, hundreds of low-wage workers gathered in Lansing to express the fact that over 64 million workers in America are underpaid. That’s health care worker Manilla Freeman. The march was to highlight what they call the moral imperative for racial and economic justice, …
Read More »Eyes On Clinton’s Health As First Debate Nears
We’ll see a showdown between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump in their first debate in less than two weeks. This as Clinton is battling pneumonia and Trump says he’ll release information about his latest physical. That’s chair of Western Michigan University’s political science department, Professor …
Read More »Ford Demonstrates Self-Driving Car
Ford working to demonstrate today why it believes it can have a self driving car in fleets by 2021. AutoBeat Reporter Jeff Gilbert takes us for a ride.
Read More »Watch Out For Sugar Too
You’re told to watch your fat intake to protect your heart, but has that advice been influenced by the sugar industry? Here’s Health Reporter Dr. Deanna Lites.
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