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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana became a state 207 years ago. All of our governors and U.S. senators have been white guys. So have all our House speakers, Senate presidents, House Ways & Means and …
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12/2/23
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Welcome mats have been spread at academic and public libraries around the world, from Crawfordsville to Madras, India to Cambridge, England to Bergen, Norway and many places in between. A life in the …
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11/30/23
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In 2016, the science podcast Radiolab ran an episode called “From Tree to Shining Tree” about the mysterious, secret world of trees. With a jeweler’s magnifying glass, Roy Halling, …
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11/28/23
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Americans are fed up with politics. That’s the obvious conclusion of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, which found many of us have “unrelentingly negative” views of …
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11/28/23
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JASPER, Ind. — About a week after U.S. Sen. Mike Braun picked up former president Donald Trump’s endorsement of his bid for Indiana’s Republican gubernatorial …
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11/25/23
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Two maples along Dry Branch Drive scream, “Red in the morning” for anyone up and driving or walking nearby. Their blood red leaves cling to branches when autumn’s wind and rain have …
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11/22/23
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JASPER, Ind. — About a week after U.S. Sen. Mike Braun picked up former president Donald Trump’s endorsement of his bid for Indiana’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, I asked …
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11/18/23
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Fun fact for this week’s cheap hook. Charles Ingalls, “Pa” in Little House on the Prairie, was in real life, a justice of the peace. ln Pioneer Girl, the account upon which the …
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11/17/23
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EVANSVILLE — Across the Hoosier prairies, hills and hollers, as the cornfields morphed into city limits and neighborhoods, something beautiful occurred Tuesday night.
There were elections …
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11/11/23
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As noted in the first LWVMC column of October, the petroleum industry knew in 1959 that oil and coal were radically altering the environment. The effect on the climate came clear in the mid-sixties …
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11/10/23
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NOTRE DAME — Our world is on fire. Our leaders are warning of a coming cataclysm.
Purdue University President Mung Chiang told the U.S. Global Leadership forum in Indianapolis that the …
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11/4/23
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Though we speak of healthcare in the U.S. as a system, it’s less a system, per se, more a situation. We have mega-industries sewn into a patchwork by (sometimes the same) mega-insurance …
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11/3/23
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Our daughter gave me a coffee mug used every morning. It has this bit of doggerel baked onto the side.
Because of your lectures,
I never change horses in the middle of a job worth doing,
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11/3/23
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INDIANAPOLIS — Last week all seven of Indiana’s congressional Republicans voted for an insurrectionist to become Speaker of the House and second in the presidential line of succession. On …
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10/28/23
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Voting is the most patriotic act Americans can do. No other act of service differentiates U.S. citizens than when we vote because a vote reinforces our nation’s unique leadership as a democracy …
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10/27/23
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INDIANAPOLIS — And so it goes.
That’s how Kurt Vonnegut cryptically dealt with apocalyptic events of his life, like that night on Feb. 13, 1945, when the British Royal Air Force …
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10/21/23
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Scores of churches in Crawfordsville are served by pastors. Some serve part-time; some full-time; some congregations have more than one pastor. Rarely is their good work recognized. Pastors serving …
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10/20/23
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On Sept. 30, our local League of Women Voters of Montgomery County hosted presidents from other Leagues statewide, during which one president shared that some non-League people believe the League of …
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10/20/23
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INDIANAPOLIS — The last two American presidential assassinations — coming about 60 years apart — set in motion different yields when it comes to trust in government. When bullets …
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10/14/23
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A report from Northwestern University’s Medill School puts it bluntly: The loss of local journalism that we’re seeing in the United States is “a crisis for our democracy and our …
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10/13/23
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