Good, not-so-good news on college enrollment
Indiana hasn’t had much to celebrate in recent years when it comes to the overall academic achievement of its young people, but the state had a faint flicker of good news on that front recently.
Niki Kelly: Missing from the House speaker madness: A woman
Our long national nightmare is over: the U.S. House has a speaker. But one thing’s for sure — it’s not a woman.
Don Hill: Cows and udder stuff
Have you ever milked a cow?
Brian Howey: A Senate lion. No try a House hyena
INDIANAPOLIS — All seven of Indiana’s congressional Republicans voted last week for an insurrectionist to become Speaker of the House and second in the presidential line of succession. On Wednesday, they elected U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, who Rep. Matt Gaetz is calling “MAGA Mike.”
Dan Davis: New fund targets pickleball
The Community Foundation of Jackson County recently joined with the town of Brownstown to establish the Brownstown Pickleball Construction Fund.
Alan Winslow: “Queering the classroom” and “White mob parents”
(This is a sequel to my Oct. 14 column titled “An Inexplicable American” that focused on Emily Drabinski, the new president of the American Library Association.)
