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Women’s History Month: TC businesswoman Jan Chapman reflects on 50 years of workplace change
In the late 1960s, at the age of 22, Jan Chapman left her hometown of Traverse City and headed to southeast Michigan to find work. Despite the civil rights progress of the ’60s, she recalls discovering a culture still heavily favoring men, in which opportunities and...
Clean energy siting series: Q/A with Ed Rivet, Executive Director, Michigan Conservative Energy Forum
With this article, we launch a series of interviews with people involved in expanding clean energy infrastructure in Michigan. The topic takes on added relevance these days as the federal administration works to slow or even halt renewable energy projects, while...
Takeaways from the Ice Storm People’s Hearing in Gaylord
By February 26, 2026, nearly a year had passed since northern Lower Michigan’s great ice storm of 2025 brought an estimated $500 million in damages to communities and forests here. At Treetops Resort in Gaylord, operations were largely back to normal. The parking lot...