String, pencil & tack marketing

I recently read about ‘low tech marketing’s prince,? postcards. And, I got to pondering that bit of marketing prose, in relations to low-tech marketing’s king — community newspapers. There is no doubt, postcards are a great part of any marketing strategy employed by small businessfolk. Heck, we use them. We send out about 40,000 a […]

Back To The Basics

In case you didn’t know this newspaper hosts a few business networking groups. We call ’em Coffee Clubs and you can find out more about these local business groups by liking and following our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/coffeeclubmi). But that is not what I’m writing about today. Nope. Today I am writing about our theme for […]

Duck Dynasty beards, No Label politicians and Bruno Mars?

I remember there was a time — actually most of my adult life — when I would grow a facial hair. Yep, back before the TV show Duck Dynasty made beards popular, yours truly had a nice, manicured one. I guess that puts me ahead of the curve on the men’s fashion list. Sometimes I […]

SwameeDon proven right. Again!

Every once in a while I like to go back and read old columns, see if any loose ends need to be tied, corrections or updates need to be made. Usually I don’t like reading the old stuff, because — well a lot of it sucks. Writing is an art that takes time. Style and […]

Marijuna’s da bom and hillbilly logic

Is there something wrong with me? Am I a ‘bad? man? I only ask these probing questions of you, because at night, before beddy-bye time, when I reflect upon the day that just was, I sometimes ask myself these same questions. And, these introspections usually follow the reflections of ‘Did I do all I could […]

Silence Dogood, schools and The Leader

In recent weeks a scuttlebutt of sorts has run its course through town . . . be it that as it was, the straw which broke the proverbial camel’s hump, was an e-column your humble scribe penned. (Note to readers, you’ll notice other columns to click onto, two are columns I wrote, Can’t Ride the […]

Can’t ride the pine at election time

As I sit at the computer and stare aimlessly into space, my throat is kinda dry. Through my mind’s eye I see a shriveled up tumbleweed rolling across a dusty street. And, although I feel like Gary Cooper at high noon, I hear the theme song from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, playing. There’s […]

AARP? Really?

This best of the best Don’t Rush Me first appeared Jan. 9, 2013. When I first started typing columns back in 1986, one of the first ‘gems? of journalistic dribble I labeled Don’t Rush Me recorded (lamented) the fact I had found my first gray hair. At that time, when I was about 22, I […]

Camo Out supports ‘Hoops for the Troops?

We are a fickle lot, we humans of American descent. I think we forget sometimes how hard the world can be. We live in an area that is fare to middlin? to high rent and bad things can’t happen here, to us, the privileged. Can it? Of course bad things happen every day, all around […]

Sage advice for 2014:

Yep, it’s official we’ve watched another ball drop, and I am not talking about the disappointing receiving efforts of your Detroit football Lions. I’m talking about that symbolic gizmo that mechanically, ever-so-slowly moves its way down a pole in New York every Dec. 31. Why folks say that ‘ball drops? is beyond me. It ain’t […]

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