Civic - Services - The Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
Support for human needs and infrastructure
- Transport: the Upper Peninsula offers a variety of transit options
- UP Transit: Outlines options for Upper Peninsula transit via land, water, and air; bus, UP transit authorities, ship, boat, ferry, rail, and air
- MDOT: Michigan Department of Transportation
- Car Sharing: Avoid owning a car; be car-free as much as possible, but keep the idea that you can rent or borrow a car only when you need it--for a big project or trip to far-out areas, for example
- Facilities: Institutions, units, organizations, or systems that build, distribute, plan, or and keep area resources or infrastructure working
- DTE Energy: MichCon; delivers natural gas to communities throughout Michigan; MichCon is a subsidiary of DTE Energy headquartered in Detroit
- Cloverland: Cloverland Electric Cooperative; serves eastern UP
- UPPCO Power: Upper Peninula Power Company; electric utility which serves approximately customers in two-thirds of the UP; corporate headquarters Houghton; a WPS Resources Com
- WPS Energy: Wisconsin Public Service Corporation; a natural gas and electric utility serving northeastern and central Wisconsin and an adjacent portion of Upper Michigan
- We Energies: We Energies; trade name for Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas Company; provides gas and electric service to customers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; unit of Wisconsin Energy Corporation
- Human: Health and human services; you can call 211 in the UP to locate health and human service information
- Employment: Michigan Department of Career Development; statewide network of Michigan Works! Service Centers for job seekers
- Hospitals: List of Michigan Hospitals
- Iron Mtn VA: Iron Mountain Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Veterans Affairs Great Lakes Health Care System, Iron Mountain; primary care in Iron Mountain, and clinics at towns throughout the UP: Hancock, Menominee, Ironwood, Sault Saint Marie, and Marquette; and Rhinelander, Wisconsin
- Jacobetti Vets: D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans; Marquette
- UPCAP Services: The Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress Services, Inc.; works to serve the 15 Upper Peninsula counties as a regional economic and human resource development and planning organization; established in 1961 by the County Boards of Commissioners of the 15 counties of Michigan's Upper Peninsula; operates 211 health and human service information phone line
- Bay Cliff: therapy and wellness center for children and adults with physical disabilities; near Big Bay
- -USA Human-: National Health and Human services; you can use these directories to find doctors, hospitals, dentists, and other health and human services
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