Columns
SYTSMA: The new Friend of the Court parenting guidelines
If you have a custody and parenting time order in Cass County, you may be required to follow ...
Columns
APPLEGATE: Summer programming for Niles children
Learning is a year-round and lifetime commitment, and while the summer months are often filled with relaxation, spending ...
Columns
WILLIAMS: Pandemic has taken toll on Americans’ mental health
In the U.S., almost half of all adults will experience mental illness during their lifetime. These are rates ...
Newsletter Opinion
KAUFMANN: Caring for our mental health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Perhaps the first thing to be aware of is that we all ...
Opinion
BEALOR: Talking to our co-parent: We can all do better!
Talking together when you are not a couple can be hard. We know it is frustrating to be ...
Columns
LASATA: April is Financial Literacy Month
Financial literacy is a learned skill that can diminish without practice. Financial Literacy Month was established in 2004 ...
Columns
HAVLICEK: State small business relief trapped in gridlock
When Michigan received $5 billion in federal COVID funds last December, it represented crucial relief for our members ...
Columns
KAUFMANN: Choose to take one for the team
Major League Baseball is underway across the nation amid hype and high hopes. Twenty-six of the 30 teams ...
Columns
LASATA: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Each year in Michigan, tens of thousands of children are abused or neglected — about 90 per day. ...
Newsletter Opinion
COLUMN: Decreasing transition blues with co-parent visitations
If you have been to court to obtain a parenting time order, you have probably had a judge, ...
Opinion
APPLEGATE: Reflecting on the past year and a bright future
One year ago, schools across the country scrambled to create new learning plans for what was, at the ...
Columns
LASATA: Have a safe and happy Easter
For Christians, Easter Sunday is one of the most important holidays of the year as we celebrate the ...
Opinion
PUCKETT: Have you gone the second mile yet?
It is easy for the teaching and the examples of Christ to get lost in the midst of ...
Opinion
PUTNAM: Time to promote open government
Transparency in government might sound like a yawn of a topic in usual times. But these are not ...
Newsletter Opinion
LASATA: Ag Day a tribute to southwest Michigan’s farming heritage
March 23 is Ag Day in Michigan. It’s a time we set aside each year to recognize our ...
Columns
APPLEGATE: Building a family-school relationship
There has never been a more important time for school districts — including teachers, principals, counseling staff and ...
Columns
LASATA: Beware of COVID-19 vaccine scams
More people are becoming eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination ahead of schedule with the availability of a ...
Columns
KAUFMANN: Tapping into the unexpected power of play
Imagine that an organization offered to put your name in a prize drawing, with one stipulation: you had ...
Opinion
LASATA: Calls for investigation into nursing home coronavirus-related deaths intensifying
The governor of New York is currently embroiled in multiple controversies, one of which is for the state’s ...
Columns
WILSON: Trying something different
At 10 minutes after 3 p.m. on a sunny spring afternoon, Big John Hudson stepped from the Amtrak ...
Columns
MCKEE: Failure to pay child support could result in revoked DNR license
There is no way around it — the pandemic has put our way of living as we knew ...
Columns
WILSON: Good fences make great neighbors
W alter Rego is a Master Wall Builder, specializing in International Perimeter Enhancement Technology. Recently, this reporter had ...
Columns
LASATA: Michigan Taxpayer’s Guide a helpful resource that could save time, money
Tax season is upon us and, as southwest Michigan residents are preparing to file their taxes, questions may ...
Columns
PUCKETT: What to do when you do not know what to do?
Have you listened to the news lately? Are you confused, discouraged, outraged? Maybe all of these, but regardless ...
Newsletter Opinion
WILSON: Leverage made simple
Somewhere, deep within the depths of the Never-Ending Forest, an easily agitated demigod and an equally easily agitated ...
