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Oh the summer holidays. Frankly, some things in the news get missed. So I'm glad the folks at Sociological Images were paying attention to recent economic…

I'm in Lake County this week and next working on a series of stories about rural poverty in Michigan. When it comes to child well-being, this part of the…

We're rolling out a few programs and events all about how the American family is changing and how that matters for children who grow up in these…

More than 90% of school children in Lake County qualify for free or reduced price lunch. To make sure they continue to eat healthy meals once school is…

Here are a couple of recent stories that illustrate two sides of the line between purposeful employment of technology and careless use of it.In San…

College is expensive. For some families, it’s prohibitively expensive. Several school districts are trying to follow the Kalamazoo Promise model by…

Terry Gaule is overseeing a rocket mission.His team: a classroom full of 14 and 15 year old kids from Grand Rapids.The mission: to build balloon-powered,…

Today we continue our story about a gun fight in Muskegon that put children’s lives at risk, and the one woman who ran into the gunfire to save the…

This is the final story in our three-part series on a street gun battle in Muskegon last month that put children’s lives at risk.Part one of the series is…