by mcl | Sep 2, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Whose ‘wisdom’ are you following? “You’ve got to stand for something Or you’re gonna fall for anything” -“You’ve Got to Stand for Somethin’,” John Cougar Mellencamp This song popped into my head after I wrote our cover story on former...
by mcl | Aug 3, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Why you should stop going it alone On a recent Sunday afternoon, a friend and I visited Jackson’s Buddy Butts Park — where the U.S. Corps of Engineers worked on a scale model of the Mississippi River watershed using POW labor during...
by mcl | Jul 1, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
David, Goliath and honoring our heroes As my pastor would say, I’m going to call my shot: This editor’s note is partially a stolen sermon. And yes, it’s from that same pastor. David Hederman of Grace City Church recently...
by mcl | Jun 2, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
To a dad who has stacked the deck I was 3 or 4 years old, wearing a baseball cap and wielding a giant plastic bat that would make me think I was a good hitter (once Dad quit filming me and tossed the ball). The guy holding the camcorder would...
by mcl | May 1, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
Following 4 generations of faith My mom grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. But in the summers, she and Uncle Rob would visit their boy cousins on Aunt Linda’s chicken farm in Perry, Arkansas. Linda’s home still holds stories: The boy...
by mcl | Mar 30, 2019 | Columns, Editor's Letter
God is with us in the dark I stared straight forward at my computer screen and tried not to cry. The Northside Sun newspaper had an open office with no cubicle walls, and anyone might see. On the monitor, an email appeared. It was from my coworker Holly,...
