Indiana at 200 (96): Blue Grass and Bean Blossom
by Andrea Neal Before New York had Woodstock, Indiana had Bean Blossom. It’s just a notch in the road to motorists heading south from Indy on State Road 135 en route to the art colony at Nashville or Brown County State Park. But to folks who know bluegrass, it’s Mecca — home to the nation’s Read the full article…
Neal: Welcome to the New and Populist GOP
by Andrea Neal Mike Pence hit the nail on the head. On Sept. 8, while speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, he declared that the spirit of 1980 was back and that Donald Trump would win the White House. While others jeered, Pence predicted that the same forces that powered the Reagan Read the full article…
Indiana at 200 (95): Our Purdue Astronauts
by Andrea Neal Before they were superheroes of the Space Age, they were students at Purdue. Virgil “Gus” Grissom, native of Mitchell in Lawrence County, Purdue Class of 1950, was one of seven astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury, the United States’ first man-in-space program. Roger Chaffee, Class of ’57, helped develop flight control Read the full article…
Op-Ed: Politics and the Third Commandment
By Donna Volmerding Particularly in this election year, Christians are having discussions about the candidate whom they think is the better one, and the philosophy and ideology that they believe is best for America and shows God’s love the best. In C.S. Lewis’ “Meditation on the Third Commandment,” he discussed the “growing desire for a Read the full article…
Backgrounder: The Problem Is Spending, not Tax Caps
by Ryan Cummins It’s municipal budget season and is anyone else tired of listening to sky-is-falling rhetoric from officeholders unwilling to make hard decisions about spending in a tight economy? Last week, yet another Indiana mayor weighed in on the fiscal “disaster” wrought by property-tax caps. David Kitchell of Logansport, in the always sympathetic Fort Read the full article…
Backgrounder: A Bit of Sympathy for Public Officials
by Maryann O. Keating, Ph.D. At times, one has to sympathize with public officials. Put yourself in the shoes of a member of the South Bend Board of Public Works. On Monday, Nov. 24, a plan to shelter up to 60 homeless men from Dec. 1 to April 1 was submitted to South Bend Common Read the full article…
