Columns
The pathway to healthiness
Mort Ellingson and Harrison Winkle made a pact to stop being themselves and start being healthier people. Actually, ...
Columns
Celebrating student success
As a district, Niles Community Schools regularly celebrates the achievements of our youth as they travel through their ...
Editorials
Be safe while cruising the open road
With the recent upswing temperatures this week, the weather may have some thinking we’ve skipped over spring and ...
Columns
Stress Awareness Month: can we survive it?
“Stress Awareness Month,” sponsored every April since 1992 by the Health Resource Network, is nearly over. Are you ...
Editorials
Freedom of speech does not have limits
Judging by the insanity seen in recent months in Berkeley, California, the battle for free speech is becoming ...
Letters to the Editor
Our top leadership leaves a lot to be desired
As president, we have a gentleman who has always had money. He expected people to do what he ...
Letters to the Editor
Pokagon Fund supporting hungry Dowagiac families
A.C.T.I.O.N. (Area Churches Together In One Network) Ministries would like to publicly thank The Pokagon Fund for a ...
Columns
Mental health services should remain public
For more than a year, intense review has taken place across Michigan on a critical matter. How it ...
Columns
Law revisions pave way for new treatment programs
As many are aware, Michigan is currently facing an opioid abuse epidemic that is devastating families from every ...
Columns
Dowagiac Union Schools April Starfish Story: Diane Barrett-Curtis, Justus Gage volunteer
Diane Barrett-Curtis has been volunteering with students and teachers at Justus Gage Elementary for quite some time. She ...
Columns
Antlers off to an outstanding year
Many of the parents of our seniors are asking questions about the Buchanan Promise, specifically on when they ...
Columns
White House transparency makes the lobbyist’s job easier
The two editorials that appeared in last Thursday’s edition of the Niles Daily Star regarding White House visitors ...
Columns
Mental health services should remain public
For more than a year, intense review has taken place across Michigan on a critical matter. How it ...
Columns
Walter Rego and the definition of success
Walter Rego was an entrepreneur of extended foresight and diminished tenacity. He was quite capable of coming up ...
Letters to the Editor
We need to protect our state’s water
As a resident of Michigan and a voter, I am deeply disturbed by your current handling of the ...
Editorials
Public has right to White House logs
As you may have noticed by our general manager’s column next to this one, the Leader Publications staff ...
Leader Columnists
Helping government be more transparent
If there is one lesson to be learned about politics, it is that a transparent government makes for ...
Letters to the Editor
Thanks for helping us fight bullying
Our area schools and communities were impacted in an immeasurable way through the cooperative efforts of many within ...
Letters to the Editor
Trump Train is still charging forward
It is certainly entertaining these days to find so many letters in the paper decrying the disaster of ...
Letters to the Editor
Thanks for helping us help the animals
The Animal Service League’s recent fundraiser at the Wounded Minnow Saloon was certainly a success, thanks to Kyle ...
Columns
Giving parents access to critical child abuse information
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is a time to acknowledge the importance of families and communities ...
Columns
Life springing forth is a miracle
Spring and Easter invoke many images. Spring is the emergence of life in the midst of the cold, ...
Columns
Render unto Caesar
It’s tax time once again. I’ve put off computing our federal and state income taxes until early April, ...
Columns
Render unto Caesar
It’s tax time once again. I’ve put off computing our federal and state income taxes until early April, ...
Columns
Life springing forth is a miracle
Spring and Easter invoke many images. Spring is the emergence of life in the midst of the cold, ...
