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 ...

We agree with Alpena Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Anne Gentry, who told News staff writer Steve Schulwitz for a recent story that she believes the city ought to conduct a parking study to find out what the city needs in terms of parking spaces and whether any of those slots ...

It pleased us to read News staff writer Temi Fadayomi’s recent report on Students Leading Students chapters in Alpena, Alcona, Hillman, and Posen school districts. Students Leading Students has chapters all across Michigan. Through the group, high schoolers organize events and other ...