Many businesses have some combination of a mission, a vision, and values (core values). Some have developed all three, while others have one or two of the three. A mission statement explains what the company does and why it exists. Ideally, it is what the business delivers every day. For ...

We know it’ll be hard for those of us who have to work, but we urge as many Alpena County residents as can make it to attend the Alpena County Board of Commissioners’ interviews with three finalists for the open county administrator position. The interviews begin at noon Friday at the ...

Growth is incredibly uncomfortable, and so worth the effort. If you’ve been reading my columns, over time you’ve come to know, when I face a new dilemma, I take a deep dive into available information. I need to sort it all out. Reading and listening to a wide variety of experts, ...

The Joe Biden administration recently announced $8.5 billion in subsidies to build Intel’s new semiconductor plants. It sounds like a terrific deal, as subsidies often do if you only listen to what politicians say when they are writing big checks to big companies. It secures good-paying ...

Anne Gentry, executive director of the Alpena Downtown Development Authority, floated an interesting possibility to News staff writer Steve Schulwitz when she said the city might want to consider closing the now-shuttered Decorative Panels International plant. The plant along the shores of ...

If you give two hoots about the quality of education for your children or grandkids, as they say in the biz, this ones for you. It’s difficult to use the phrase “silver lining” in the same sentence with the term “COVID-19,” but, if there was one, at least on the education front, it ...