November

---

I will agree, the Ski hill can be a boon to the Keweenaw and to the business's that cater to the skiers, however, I doubt that they will spend the $$$$$ that the snomobilers do. It is time for change but I think that the changes ought to be in compliance with all applicable rules, laws, and regualtions. Jobs will be created, however, probably will not be able to sustain much of a lifestyle.
I too would like to know which restaurants have closed. Is that because the locals don't support them?

Yooper,

I followed this as closely as possible - from downstate Ypsilanti - and it sounded to me that Black Bear has had noting but contempt for the locals.

Paul will probably agrue about that. I can only form opinions by what I have read in postings and the DMG.

Paul, for those of us that don't live there - what restruants closed?

Sorry about the post below. I thought I was on the "anonymous" message board.

This is incredibly sad and certainly puts the "problems" of the Keweenaw into perspective:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,185954,00.html

Thanks for the Keweenaw GenWeb link, Alicia. There is a wealth of information for local history buffs here including late 19th-early 20th century Daily Mining Gazette transcripts. The Ross Collection in particular was very interesting. I visited the cemeteries link and tried out the data base search for a few names I know from the Lakeview but came up empty so I guess the listings there are still incomplete.

Genealogy available at this site , Keweenaw is
linked to it. The Ahmeek Cemetery is now on line
and Lakeview is Calumet is being added to daily.

http://www.mifamilyhistory.net/houghton/index.html
Alicia

DOES BLACK BEAR THINK THAT THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT WHEN AND HOW THEY PLEASE. LETS NOT ALLOW THEM TO RUIN LAC LA BELLE WITH THEIR RUNOFF. IT IS TIME FOR THE STATE TO LAY DOWN THE LAW OF THE LAND.

Let’s not forget that people can be profoundly religious(and/or ethical) at the personal level(in either a particular faith or in a more ecumenical sense) while still largely supporting both Gay Rights and Abortion Choice in the public sphere. In fact, I’d guess this is where the majority of Americans currently stand. Back in the 1980’s when the Religious Right(and the Southern Baptists in particular) christened tactical crusades against homosexuality and abortion as the rudder and sails of their political flagship, they reduced “Christianity” to a special-interest caricature of it’s much much larger self. In so doing, I believe they’ve alienated many good people from the cause they claimed(and still claim) to represent.
Just as an aside, everytime a newspaper headline couples the words Eco(or Islam) and Terrorist, those individuals who claim to be “environmentalists” but use violence as a means in supporting their cause are not only doing grave harm to others, they are undercutting public support for the very thing they seem to be so passionate about. A bomb is a bomb is a bomb, and violent techniques such as these have absolutely no purpose in the American political debate except provoking intimidation and fear.
Great News about 7 Mile Point(it is indeed a place well worth preserving in it’s natural form)!

Congratulations to NWC on the purchase of seven mile point! And thanks to LSLC and to the neighboring landowners for working with NWC to make this happen! It's heartening to see the good citizenship of the people of Keweenaw County.

The opposition to Planned Parenthood and the attack on the Twin Towers are not unrelated. Both feature the expression of fundamental religious beliefs at the expense of human life (although, ironically, such beliefs contradict the teachings of the religious prophets Jesus and Mohammed).

How crazy is it that "right to lifers" are willing to kill doctors or mothers to make their point?

The point at which a fetus becomes a human being is a moral and religious opinion, not a discernable legal fact. Therefore, it would be wrong to grant full rights to a fetus. However, there is nothing more precious than a wanted pregnancy, and there should be a penalty for killing what is inarguably a separate living thing, which has at least the potential to become fully human.

Mr. Sachs correctly points out that the problem is not abortion per se, but a lack of either abstinence or birth control. Let Mr. Snyder and the others address the former, and Planned Parenthood address the latter.

If one truly believes, as do the protestors, that from the moment of fertilization, an egg-blastopore-embryo-fetus is a fully human being, then abortion is murder. However, such a belief is just that -- a belief based on personal moral and religious values -- and as such cannot and should not be thrust upon others of differing beliefs.

Freedom, which we all have been recently reminded must be held near and dear, includes freedom of religion and freedom of CHOICE.

Protestors, I respect your beliefs, but they aren't necessarily mine, and your attempt to legislate you beliefs tramples our hard won freedom.

Here’s a pair of links to two good columns on why Islamic moderates and American officials need to step-up, strengthen and further craft the PR campaign which will define this War on Terrorism for both ourselves and the over 1 billion Muslims worldwide: