When Republican Rep. Eric Leutheuser talks political philosophy, he uses a trinity of institutions as his guiding principles in Michigan’s House of Representatives. “Family, church, and local community support American civil life when they are successful,” Leutheuser said. “When those institutions are under attack, our society wobbles. Local communities are weakened all the time when...
Sheri Ingles has driven 70 miles round trip every day for the last 16 years to her human resources job in Jackson County because Hillsdale jobs don’t pay enough for her position. She’s lived in Hillsdale County for 35 years, but when the auto industry began to decline in the late 90s, Ingles started...
“It’s not easy being a Democrat in this area.” Jan Hill, 76, stood behind the Hillsdale County Democratic Party booth at the county fair on a drizzly Friday night. He and his wife, Mary Hill, 74, have been involved with the HCDP since her retirement 10 years ago. With an open grin, Jan stands to...
Hiding behind a thick line of pines off of a Hillsdale County backroad, a 140-year-old house peeks out between fat shrubs and a cluster of brick-red barns. A soft murmur passing between chirping birds fills the natural hush of the countryside, and a couple cats yawn as they loll about on the front porch. Welcome...
Although law enforcement has found nearly 70 credit card skimmers—small devices that capture credit and debit card information—at gas station pumps across the state of Michigan, none were in Hillsdale County. Gas stations in Coldwater were the closest locations at which law enforcement found skimmers in a recent Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural...