Category: Indiana Writers Group

by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. Charging $700 per hour for routine physical therapy — my first thought was to switch professions. I love my job, but for the standard 2,000 hours of work per year, $700 an hour equates to $1.4 million for services that are professional but relatively modest and routine. I could live with…

by Leo Morris No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. – Aristotle I’ve always resisted the temptation to comment on mass shootings, partly because it is difficult to add anything new or useful to the discussion, and partly because I don’t want to contribute to the…

HAVE YOU NOTICED that your elected representatives only pretend to care what you think? That your newspaper heralds one new economic development “investment” after another but nobody can find a better job? The annual seminar is set for Sept. 12 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Sycamore Country Club in Terre Haute. We…

by Eric Schansberg, Ph.D. Bernie Sanders has been fun to watch the last few weeks as he struggles to run a campaign under the principles he claims to believe. Either you’re a hypocrite (as Sanders has often been on socialism) or you try to live out its principles and it costs you a ton (as…

by Richard McGowan Years ago, I asked my wife to watch a women’s basketball game at Butler. She declined the invitation even though the games were free to attend. I took my oldest son and several of his friends to the game. At the time, we held season tickets, for $500, to watch the Butler…

Are We all Baltimore Now? “Whew, Jesus. Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.” — Then-Mayor Catherine Pugh touring an east Baltimore neighborhood in September 2018 MY CITY, PERHAPS FOR THE FIRST TIME in its history, is facing serious problems with orderly trash disposal, not comparable with Baltimore as yet but nonetheless alarming…

by Leo Morris I’m a little late in commenting on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, deliberately. I wanted to think about it a bit, see what I could find beyond my immediate, visceral reaction: It was the greatest achievement in human history, and I have trouble understanding people who won’t acknowledge that. I’ve…

“I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.” — Rep. Ilhan Omar quoted by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio ARE COLLEGE ‘EDUCATED’ PERSONS IMPORTANT? That is in scare quotes because the meaning is to be questioned here;…

by David Penticuff Those of us with a conservative bent carried a vague image in the back of our minds of how sweet life might be with Republicans in power and able to do all they campaigned about doing. Common sense would mean something, trains and buses would run on time, divorce and child abuse…

by Leo Morris The census-citizenship-question sideshow seems to have ended, and thank goodness. Now, we can concentrate on what is really important about our decennial body count. That’s not to say citizenship – particularly the illegal-immigrant component – is not an important issue. It is, but the federal government has ducked it for decades. If…