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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1/17/25
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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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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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1/8/25
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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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1/3/25
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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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