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When Gerald Frendt died, the people of St. Clair Country lost a true warrior. My last conversation with Jerry was last week when he called to gently press me to re-engage in local politics. He spoke to me with a quiet passion about the need to stand up for the right of the people...Read More »

At times it appears that some people do not understand the difference between news and commentary.  In the media we do both.  The news is all about what happened.  Generally, the news is about things out of the ordinary.  Man crosses the street safely is not news; man gets run over by a truck...Read More »

Love him or hate him, Cliff Schrader is St. Clair County’s most listened to radio  commentator and one of the area’s most well read newspaper columnists.  One of the most common complaints against Cliff is that the stories he tells are a big reason we do not have robust economic development.  It should be...Read More »

Sometimes those of us in the media miss the real story. Recently, the county, with advice from the EDA, approved making application to join a number of other communities in becoming one of Michigan’s logistics hubs. The taxpayers would bear the cost. That story received fair coverage in the news. What we did not...Read More »

You might be surprised with how much the news media knows and never reports. On a regular basis we are provided “inside information” that we determine is not newsworthy or sometimes cannot be independently verified. So what kinds of things do we generally consider off limits and not newsworthy? First and foremost are the...Read More »