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Kathy Jennings

Kathy Jennings is the Executive Editor for Issue Media group. She is the founding Managing Editor of Southwest Michigan's Second Wave and a freelance writer and editor.

Kathy's Latest Articles

WMU Medical School hires architects and first new employees
Course teaches entrepreneurs how to plan a business
Vestaron enlisted to fight malaria bearing mosquito
Education reformer challenges community to save its children

Geoffrey Canada has a theory: If you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change their schools, neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents. Second Wave editor Kathy Jennings shares the evidence suggesting nothing short of the nation's future may depend on it.

The Big Event: Soul Rebels Brass Band
Battle Creek offers trolley to help navigate construction
Plans move ahead for downtown development: The Exchange
Learning and growing go together in urban garden

It doesn't take long for a youngster to find the joy in growing something he or she can eat. At the Fair Food Matters Garden on Westnedge programs are tailored to teach them what they need to know.

Kalamazoo’s CeeTox awarded nearly $26 million to test chemicals for risks
Inforum gives women new opportunity to network and more

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