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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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Dr. Mary Holloway Wilhite: Medical pioneer, suffragist
[Photo gallery]
On Aug. 26 — the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment into the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote, the League of Women Voters will have a …
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8/28/20
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