Great Challenges Facing The Great Lakes

Water is the lifeblood of our region, defining our culture, economy and way of life. The health of the Great Lakes, however, is at risk. Systemic ecosystem threats include microbead plastics, invasive species, urban and rural runoff, shoreline development, oil transport and production, and water diversions and exports. And global …

TELEMEDICINE BRINGS SPECIALTY CARE TO HOMETOWN HEALTH CARE

The term ‘telemedicine’ may summon visions of R2D2 in an intergalactic operating room or Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy scanning Captain Kirk with his medical tricorder. Yet, you don’t have to be watching sci-fi to find many northern Michigan patients already benefitting from telemed – with the potential for much more …

Commentary: “Decline To Sign” Anti-Fracking Petition

You may be approached this summer and asked to sign a petition that seeks to ban the practice of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Michigan. The group Let’s Ban Fracking claims the process used to extract oil and gas is a danger to human health and safety and pollutes the …

TC's Largest Law Firms

Ranked by number of attorneys, based on respondents to a Traverse City Business News email survey.

Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge101 N. Park Street, Ste. 100Traverse City, MI 49684231.929.4878shrr.com

Partners: Robert W. Parker (Managing), Janis L. Adams, George F. Bearup, Andrew J. Blodgett, Peter J. Boyles, Jeffrey E. Gwillim, Scott …

Thanks For A Thankless Job

Proposal 1 Failure – Not Just Roads!

Not Just Any Ol' Attorney

Specialty Practices Show Lawyers' Passion And Personality

TJ Andrews – Public Interest Environmental Attorney

“My nonprofit clients usually want a seat at the table, and sometimes it takes a lawyer to get there.” – TJ Andrews

‪Growing up on a farm in Swaziland – a small, land-locked country in southern …

Making It In Northern Michigan: Shoreline Fruit

What began more than four decades ago as a few acres of leased cherry orchards near Traverse City has grown to become the largest tart cherry operation in North America.

Shoreline Fruit – launched by two sets of brothers, Bob and Don Gregory along with Dean, Gene and Norm Veliquette …

Terminator Salvage: Five Thoughts to Reduce Employment Termination Exposure

Wishing this was the title to the next installment of the "Terminator" franchise? No need to wait for Hollywood producers to get on board. Employers can learn a great deal about terminations from the original "Terminator." In fact, its central and often overlooked message is one that rings true for …

Munson, NMC Launch Paramedic Degree Program

Beginning this month, the first cohort of students will begin coursework in a paramedic associate’s degree program offered as a collaboration between Munson Medical Center and Northwestern Michigan College (NMC).

There has been a relatively longstanding partnership between the two institutions – for example, NMC has allowed Munson to facilitate …

Going Underwater

NMC’s Sonar Training Heralded By Marine Industry Leaders

Traverse City’s greatest attractor is its unparalleled, vibrant views of rich, teal waters. However, not everyone who travels here to the bay spends their time looking above the water.

Recently, more than 20 marine industry professionals from around the country attended a …

Book Review: Bitter Brew, The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer

Harper Business (2012), 416 pages

Paperback $17.99, eBook edition $7.99

In a Nutshell – It took four generations of the Busch family dynasty to make Budweiser “The King of Beers” and only one to squander its fortune.

Who’s it for? – History buffs, beer geeks, anyone involved in a family …

Cowell Cancer Center And Kids Creek – A Natural Partnership

For the last several years, Munson Medical Center has had a special relationship with the creek that meanders through its campus – a creek that is on the Michigan Impaired Waters List because of stormwater runoff.

“A couple years ago we started working with Munson with the specific goal of …

Die-namics: Cremation, personalization and technology are changing the local funeral industry

The traditional funeral hasn’t disappeared from northwest lower Michigan – yet. But funeral practices here, like most of the country, have changed dramatically over the past few decades.

Some still choose the traditional route with a chemically-preserved body, a public viewing of the deceased, a service led by clergy, and …

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ADVANTAGE TURF SOLUTIONS, 1720 Harris Rd, Beulah, Jason Stuart, Paul Emling

ART IS FOR ANYONE, 4757 Scenic Hwy, Arcadia, Aime Merizon

BETSIE BAY HOUSE, 58272, River Manor Blvd, Elkhart, IN, Vicki Lints

Circling Blue

J. Carl Ganter’s first assignment as a budding young journalist for Traverse City’s WCCW radio was to cover the famous French sea explorer, Jacques Cousteau, and his crew’s visit to the Great Lakes. He was 15, in tenth grade at Traverse City Central, and had his first taste of …