Letters to the Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thank you from the Four Flags Garden Club

Members of the Four Flags Garden Club of Niles want to thank the community for supporting its recent ...

Letters to the Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Do not support voter suppression

Michigan voters need to speak now and let their legislators know that we do not support the voter ...

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 ...

Leader Columnists

CULTON: The fight against COVID is not over

My great-uncle never liked having his picture taken. Whenever anyone brought out a camera, he would scowl, duck ...

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 ...

Letters to the Editor

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Snow is freedom

Students want their snow days back at Dowagiac Middle School instead of the distance learning days the schools ...

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 ...

Leader Columnists

NELDON: Looking back on a year of togetherness

One year ago, Leader Publications published its 39th edition of Horizons. Packed with stories about progress, innovation, forward-thinking ...

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 ...

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