Bud Herron: Boys and girls and stomping frogs
I spent a considerable amount of time in my childhood trying hard not to be a girl.
Michael Hicks: Money, illusion and the Indiana state budget
Indiana’s legislative session addressed some of the most vexing public problems the state faces: Hospital monopolies, housing, collapse in college attendance and a slew of social issues.
Another viewpoint: GOP lawmakers transfer $212 million in utility costs to ratepayers
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Alan Winslow: ‘It’s close to sinful … it’s terrible … it’s cruel’
“What’s going on in Florida is … close to sinful. It’s just terrible what they’re doing … It just, to me, is, I dunno, it’s cruel,” says President Biden.
Michael Leppert: The blessing of our national debt has made us great
Alexander Hamilton, America’s first secretary of the treasury said, “A national debt, if it is not excessive, to us will be a national blessing.”
A deficit of attention
According to a limited Google search I just conducted (which, I confess, an expert does not make), between 3% and 5% of the U.S. population has some form of attention deficit disorder.
Don Hill: Have a seat, sit a spell
Speaking of chairs … Oh, I thought we were.
Leo Morris: Property: Imagine it anew
Imagine no possessions
Mark Franke: The black hole of genealogy
Allen County, where I live, is known for several things but perhaps the genealogy department at the public library is one of the best-known outside God’s country. I am told it has one of the largest collections of official and family documents in the nation. Serious researchers know its reputation and use its expansive digital and paper resources.
Memorial Day provokes many memories of Indianapolis 500
The Memorial Day weekend has always been an exciting one for me.