Columns
Bills protect fair hunting practices, hunters’ rights
With an abundance of game animals and birds, Michigan attracts more hunters than any other state because our ...
Columns
Seniors beware of Medicare tactics
When the Clinton Administration began its quest for national health reform back in 1993, I had a front-row ...
Columns
Working together
Niles Community Schools benefits from having a community that is passionate and dedicated to the success of its ...
Leader Columnists
Horizons offers glimpse into why area is so special
Hopefully, by the time you read these words, you’ve already been drawn into our 34th annual Horizons edition ...
Leader Columnists
Something of which to be proud
This week, a Brandywine student made school history. The seventh-grader out-spelled 65 other students in a countywide spelling ...
Columns
Creating a strong community
In September I wrote about my beliefs as an educator and school administrator and my philosophy that we ...
Leader Columnists
Why free Internet matters
“Newspapers are dead, and the Internet killed them.” For years now, this has been the refrain spouted by ...
Columns
Integrity and extraordinary Fred
I first saw the extraordinary “Fred” practiced by my father, as a tool and die maker for one ...
Columns
Pencils and sharpeners disappearing too
Continuing from last week, the next object or set of objects disappearing from elementary schools is the hand-cranked ...
Leader Columnists
Relay for Life making difference one dollar, one person at a time
There are always lots of things going on across southwest Michigan. Communities from the Lake Michigan shore to ...
Leader Columnists
Heroes and heritage in our backyards
Who is your hero? I’ve been asked this question more times than I can count, and I’ve always ...
Columns
Looking for a job or considering a career change?
The Pure Michigan Talent Connect website offers a variety of tools to help connect jobs seekers with employers. ...
Columns
Big John and the break-up
“It’s time for a break up,” Big John Hudson burst through the front door, threw his ball cap ...
Columns
Blackboards have place in classroom
Recently I read an article about 10 things disappearing from elementary schools.
Letters to the Editor
Income inequality a priority
President Obama has presented a series of tax proposals that would reduce the federal income taxes of middle ...
Columns
And that’s the way it is
For those of us old enough to remember Walter Cronkite, we heard him say “And that’s the way ...
Columns
Snow removal in southwest Michigan
Snow has fallen — and fallen — and fallen. This is not an uncommon sight, in the middle ...
Columns
Enjoy Michigan’s free fishing weekend Feb. 14-15
With more than 3,000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, 36,000 miles of rivers and 11,000 inland lakes, Michigan ...
Columns
How to prevent identity theft at tax time
Identity theft happens when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission. It is a ...
Leader Columnists
Don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone
As I’m sure most of the community’s culinary mavens already know and lamented, downtown’s Foodies Fresh Café and ...
Leader Columnists
Integrity is everything
A couple of days ago a fellow alum who worked at my college paper about 20 years before me ...
Leader Columnists
Perspective on winter continues to melt away
I am not sure that growing up in eastern Kentucky exactly constitutes being from the south — those who ...
Letters to the Editor
College plan problematic
I want you to know that I am against amnesty and Obama’s college plan. First, who pays for ...
Letters to the Editor
Why the need to hunt squirrels?
“It’s a good wintertime activity…bring the youngsters out” and let’s murder some squirrels. Are you kidding? What are ...
Columns
What stops us from listening better?
I read a recent blog post from an education writer named Paul LaRue. He talked about impediments to ...
