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Is the United States a model democracy? Not that long ago, I suspect, most Americans would have answered with a resounding yes. But times have changed. We’ve lost confidence in our own system …
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2/1/25
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In 1936 Bing Crosby entertained the nation by crooning “Pennies From Heaven,” but in 2025 it seems that pennies are The Coin From Hell.
It didn’t happen overnight, but …
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2/1/25
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INDIANAPOLIS — The worst-kept secret at the Statehouse is that Secretary of State Diego Morales has employed his brother-in-law in his office with a six-figure salary and a bonus of more than …
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2/1/25
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In last week’s column, the League of Women Voters of Montgmoery County overviewed the new “ Future New Indiana Diploma” requirements and how the new requirements ask kids and their …
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1/31/25
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INDIANAPOLIS — Earlier this month on Jan. 6, members of Congress of both political parties gathered at the U.S. Capitol to certify that Republican Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College …
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1/25/25
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Chip Timmons, Wabash College’s Dean of Enrollment Management, has two sons, “who have, and will likely continue, to follow markedly different academic paths. One pursuing an advanced …
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1/24/25
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INDIANAPOLIS — Anyone who has followed Gov. Mike Braun’s political trajectory over the past seven years knows the story of how he “solved” his company’s health care …
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1/18/25
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Like all League of Women Voters position statements, its Impact on Issues statement about incarceration is the result of national studies. (Read the previous column from the first week of December on …
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1/17/25
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A neighbor quoted a wise friend who regularly assured him, “Everyone needs to be needed!” My neighbor repeats that saying any time we request his assistance to fix things or do tasks that …
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1/15/25
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INDIANAPOLIS — By April 1979, Georgi Vins had spent eight years in a Soviet Union labor prison in Yakutsk, Siberia. Days after he and four other dissidents had been exchanged for two spies, he …
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1/11/25
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In 2024, Joel Weir regularly visited the federal penitentiary to visit an Irishman detained by ICE, Plainfield state prison to see a young man who started catechism some years back, and twice a month …
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1/10/25
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In 2024, Joel Weir regularly visited the federal penitentiary to visit an Irishman detained by ICE, Plainfield state prison to see a young man who started catechism some years back, and twice a month …
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1/10/25
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Remember when parents sternly warned, “Don’t take candy from strangers”?
Today’s trendiest parents cheerfully advise, “Do take life-changing child-rearing advice …
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1/8/25
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INDIANAPOLIS — In 1980, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan posed this blunt question during a debate with President Jimmy Carter: “Are you better off than you were four years …
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1/4/25
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Early in June 2023, police knocked on a door in an upper-class neighborhood in eastern Maryland, the kind of neighborhood where the low-end home is worth more than half a million dollars. They had a …
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1/3/25
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The U.S. Debt Clock says our country is in hock for more than $36 trillion.
How massive is a trillion dollars? Consider this comparison from ThoughtCo — if you earn $45,000 a year, it …
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12/28/24
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INDIANAPOLIS — The year 2024 will go down in history books as a sensational one politically. For just the second time in history, America is sending a former president back to the White House. …
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12/28/24
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Have a book you’re itching to talk about with others?
If only others read this, you might think, as you fan the pages of what? The magical realism of Colson Whitehead’s Underground …
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12/27/24
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Donald Trump will return to office next month, and his plans and policies for his second term are dominating the news. It’s a good time to remind ourselves that we have elected a president, not …
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12/26/24
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INDIANAPOLIS — He is the “Builder Governor.” The lasting impression of Eric Holcomb’s eight-year tenure as governor could be measured on what he built, and how he did so and …
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12/21/24
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