Columns

I notice all the talk lately about a walking, running, and biking trail from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids. Most people encouraging its creation cite more exercise, fresh air, and tourism…

by Lynn Mandaville I was given a wonderful opportunity this past week. The librarian who oversees volunteers for the City of Chandler (AZ) Public Library invited me to accompany her…

"No good deed goes unpunished" — American dramatist Clare Boothe Luce, as well as an oft-quoted proverb. I really did feel like a 197-pound weakling Tuesday when I failed in…

A number of readers of this publication commenting about my assertions President Barack Obama was a Marxist will be addressed in this column. Remember a few nights before Barak Obama…

The Super Bowl has started as I write this, and for the 45th consecutive year, "I'm not going to watch it. I'll just have to miss it." And this has…

by Lynn Mandaville Recently, I had an experience at our local pharmacy that got me pondering the meanings of two seemingly synonymous words. The experience was this: I was filling…

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a guest column written by Pamela Heijerman, a sophomore at Michigan State University and an alumna of Martin High School. by Pamela Heijerman With multiple sexual…