Franke: We Can Be Thankful Even Now
by Mark Franke I listened in the other day while my wife read a Thanksgiving story to our grandchildren. It was the traditional story with Pilgrims and Squanto and a shared dinner. Then, the book was published in 1973 before political correctness was running amok. This book, “The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving” by Ann McGovern, paints an idyllic Read the full article…
Morris: Giving Thanks for our Choices
by Leo Morris Her name was Judy – no point in making up a protect-her-privacy name for her at this point. She was a year behind me in high school – a junior when I was a senior – so our paths did not cross that often. But a few subjects were taught without regard Read the full article…
Half Past the Month
“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” — the character Jackie Brown in the 1971 novel “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George Higgins. IF YOU WANT your Indiana city to prosper these next few years, there is something you can do. Write your councilman, your party chairman, the prosecuting attorney or anyone else Read the full article…
Franke: ‘Splitting’ Off
by Mark Franke When did we as Americans plunge into the abyss of demonizing everyone with whom we disagree? It wasn’t this way for the first 30 years of my life. Some of the most fulfilling times of my undergraduate days were spent debating philosophy, religion and politics with friends of what was then the left Read the full article…
Menge: Who Owns Indiana’s Voting Machines?
by Margaret Menge The question of who owns voting machines and the software they run on has resurfaced since the Nov. 3 election with the Trump campaign pointing fingers at Smartmatic, which was started by three Venezuelans. One company that has escaped scrutiny thus far is Hart InterCivic, the third-largest maker of voting machines in the Read the full article…
Morris: It’s 2020 — What’s Next?
by Leo Morris It’s such a perfect little story to illustrate this awful, awful year of the pandemic, cities overtaken by anarchy and an election from hell. A deer jumped through a window into an empty classroom at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne. After trashing the room for 45 minutes, the deer jumped back Read the full article…
