This is an election year.

This is where each of us, as citizens of a great country, owes it to ourselves and to our neighbors to begin the candidate review process now, today. We must take the time to find out who each of these announced candidates are, go and meet them in the various meetings they hold and question them carefully about the policies they intend to promote

Yes, it is going to take time, effort and even some of our hard-earned money.

However, to wait until shortly before the primary election day in August could easily prove to be far more costly. Costly, both in money and in personal satisfaction, because you made a choice at the polls that later proves most unsatisfactory.

Be prepared.

(Submitted for publication to the Lansing State Journal on March 16, 2010)
(Published on March 30, 2010)