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WestSouthwest September 11, 2014

Credit: Gryphon Place

On this edition of WestSouthwest, examining how communities can use liberal arts college for economic benefit. And the first ever suicide prevention walk in Kalamazoo. 

  

Author and journalist Richard Longworth has reported extensively on how the Midwest can reinvent itself economically. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Longworth is part of a panel discussion at Albion College on Thursday about communities and liberal arts colleges collaborating on economic development.

Gryphon Place is hosting the first ever Suicide Prevention Walk in Kalamazoo this weekend.  Assistant Director Lacee Lyons talks with WMUK's Earlene McMichael about the issue of suicide, and finding help. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.
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