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KOKOMO — A year after U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly played an advocacy role with President Obama in preventing the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler, he ended up at a plant gate in the final …
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1/27/24
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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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Possibly no one had more influence on American foreign policy in the late 20th century than Henry Kissinger, who died last month at age 100. In his long and active career, he advised presidents, …
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12/27/23
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Eastertide is a hopeful season. Two previous columns describe our culture of pessimism and despair; both ended with glimmers of hope. Perhaps Lent is a fitting time for descriptions of despair. A …
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3/27/24
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In 1998, children’s songwriter Tom Chapin wrote a lovely song, “My town is a salad bowl,” a lovely metaphor for the U.S., — arguably better than the weary “melting …
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2/9/24
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CARMEL — Indiana is not a referendum state. Hoosier voters cannot gather signatures to qualify an issue to appear for an up or down vote on the ballot.
That wasn’t the case in …
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3/16/24
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Ronald Reagan may be one of the most beloved presidents in modern history, but he spurred distrust in the government with soundbites like “The nine most terrifying words in the English language …
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12/8/23
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Americans seem to be more interested in foreign policy than usual. Four in 10 U.S. adults named it as an important issue to address in 2024, according to a recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC …
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2/3/24
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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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Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself, who were born between 1965 and 1980.
We …
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1/3/24
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Okay, maybe I’m approaching this from a position of privilege.
One of my earliest memories is of tagging along to my mother’s former grammar school when she voted. Social Studies was …
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1/3/24
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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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INDIANAPOLIS — On Tuesday evening, Fox News host Sean Hannity lobbed a softball question at Donald J. Trump. He tried to get Trump to tamp down fears he would install an authoritarian …
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12/9/23
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By the time a child is three, they will go through 5,000 to 6,000 diapers, a huge cost for low-income parents, about which Montgomery Health Department staff heard at a local event. Ever perceptive …
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2/2/24
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The hero of a Tom Clancy novel remarked, ‘Conscience is the cost of morality, and morality is the cost of civilization.’ That profound and wise insight deserves contemplation. Cost is …
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1/24/24
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Here’s one thing we can count on in the upcoming election year: American politicians will find ways to criticize China, even if they’re running for jobs that have little to do with U.S. …
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1/24/24
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One favorite holiday tradition across the U.S. is Christmas cookie baking and decorating, something we’ll do here in another two weeks. A small crowd of kids will gather in the kitchen to cut …
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12/15/23
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