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It’s probably sacrilegious for a Hoosier to admit this, but I find auto racing the dullest of spectator sports.
Watching cars go around and around a track endlessly, lap after lap, until a …
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5/18/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — This “trend” bubbled up in the homestretch leading into the May 3 Indiana primary in several media quarters: A slate of “Liberty Defense” candidates was …
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5/16/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — This “trend” bubbled up in the homestretch leading into the May 3 Indiana primary in several media quarters: A slate of “Liberty Defense” candidates was …
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5/16/22
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While sniffing about for story ideas recently, this writer dug up a gem on the Montgomery County website, a listing names of famous natives.
Some of these gems need cleaned, cut and polished. For …
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5/13/22
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All the pro-choice advocates in my circle are in a “mad as hell and won’t take it anymore” mood, nearly apoplectic with rage at the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting an …
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5/11/22
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A woman pondered an elderly neighbor’s cluttered living room: “Our parents’ generation carried the past memorialized in paint, porcelain and wood; we cast it off. Even our national …
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5/11/22
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Having just watched a Supreme Court nominee supported by a comfortable majority of Americans draw just three Republican votes in the Senate, you could be forgiven for thinking bipartisanship in …
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5/9/22
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Tied to a board and put on a human back, laid in a box, locked in a parked car, left to run the docks with a warning “to stay away from the water!” — these were just a few childcare …
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5/6/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — On Monday, Politico broke the story of a leaked SCOTUS draft opinion that had by a 5-4 margin the termination of Roe v. Wade which has legalized abortion over the past 49 …
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5/6/22
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My heartfelt congratulations to President Biden. He is proposing an idea so bad that it replaces the No. 1 choice of worst federal government scheme of my lifetime.
My guideline in judging federal …
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5/4/22
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I was feeling a bit under the weather this past week, so I ended up spending time at home in front of the television.
The thing that really mesmerized me was the Johnny Depp trial on Court TV. I …
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5/2/22
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The May primary is here and if national and local trends predict anything, too few people eligible to vote will go to the polls, especially to the primaries in non-Presidential election years.
The …
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4/29/22
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Res ipsa loquitur.
That’s a useful Latin phrase meaning, “The thing speaks for itself.”
It’s a legal tactic commonly used in negligence cases. It claims that the guilt …
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4/27/22
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The Drug Free Montgomery County Coalition met March 10 to discuss plans for moving forward with the 2022 Comprehensive Community Plan.
A comprehensive community plan uses input from the entire …
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4/27/22
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Res ipsa loquitur.
That’s a useful Latin phrase meaning, “The thing speaks for itself.”
It’s a legal tactic commonly used in negligence cases. It claims that the guilt …
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4/27/22
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Dave Gerard was Crawfordsville mayor in the 1970s and a Wabash alumnus. He was also a successful political cartoonist. One popular cartoon series was Will-Yum, and another featured Citizen Smith as …
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4/27/22
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INDIANAPOLIS — When the 2012 gubernatorial debate turned to the topic of marijuana reform, Libertarian nominee Rupert Boneham decried decades of prohibition that resulted in the jailing of …
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4/25/22
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Polls are open in Montgomery County for early voting, and once again it’s time to educate ourselves about voting in the primaries and choosing among the candidates.
First a quick reminder …
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4/22/22
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Reports of landmines strewn across landscapes saturate our media. Images of soldiers and civilians crippled by exploded mines fill screens and break hearts. Montgomery County is blessedly free from …
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4/20/22
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I’m so old that I remember when the Establishment set the rules and rebels tried to break them. Now, we seem to be embarked on a great experiment in which the former rebels are in charge and …
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4/20/22
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