You can choose your friends and your employees, but you can’t choose your family. Yet often the best employees you can choose are family. Several area businesses have been launched and passed down to the next generation. The following are profiles of a few local...
By Malcom Gladwell Little, Brown, and Company: (September 19, 2016) 400 pages; hardcover $30; e-read version $16; audio version $15 Reviewed by Chris Wendel In a nutshell: In his latest book, writer Malcom Gladwell combines social science with his unique storytelling to explain why all of us are poor...
Munson Medical Center's $80 million expansion remains on schedule. The hospital's largest-ever expansion features the $36 million Family Birth and Children's Center (FBC), which will stretch across Sixth Street between the main hospital and the Cowell Family Cancer Center. To accommodate the new center, Sixth Street...
Is solar power the future of electricity generation? Or is it a costly fad unlikely to yield true return on investment for consumers? The answer, it proves, is more difficult to come by than most might realize. On the one hand, most metrics show that solar...
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, there has been a surge in the number of sexual harassment charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In October 2019, the EEOC reported its fiscal year 2018 statistics showing that sexual harassment charge filings increased by...
The use of drones by northern Michigan public utilities is taking off. “We have two now and would like to add one or two more over the next year,” said Frank Siepker, engineering and operations manager at Cherryland Electric Cooperative. “They're especially useful in the difficult-to-access...
When Schmuckal Oil Company was sold in August to Ohio-based True North Energy LLC, it marked the end of a well-known Traverse City business that Art Schmuckal and George Slane started 64 years ago with little more than a contract to sell home heating oil. “They...
Matt Wille was named the new president and CEO of Munson Medical Center in September, replacing the role held by Al Pilong, who left for a position at a Virginia health system. It's a big job by any measure – but one Wille says he’s...
Thanks to a series of grants received by Munson Healthcare over the past year, northern Michigan will soon have a new set of options available for individuals struggling with opioid abuse and addiction. The first grant comes from the Michigan Opioid Partnership, a new public-private collaborative...
Tourism is here to stay, and the yearly number of visitors to our area continues to climb. It’s no wonder. Those of us who live here year round know the value of what tourists come for: thriving towns, culture and recreation, beautiful land and fresh...
