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In the movie “Hoosiers” one of the students, Ollie, is giving a report in class that is a listing of things thought to be progress. He doesn’t seem convinced of the value of progress, although I venture that he thought more highly of indoor plumbing than of school consolidation. Fortunately for Ollie and his classmates, the fictional Hickory High School would escape consolidation long enough to win the state basketball championship.

Aim Media Indiana

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling square peg into an unreceptive round hole.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

Gov. Eric Holcomb is in the final months of his eight years leading the state, and his legacy is coming into focus. So is his popularity.

We have lived with the existential threat of nuclear weapons for almost 80 years. To say we have become complacent would be an understatement. Knowing the devastation a nuclear war would produce, we go about our lives and assume it can never happen.

Leaving a toxic workplace with a long notice period must be a liberating experience. Perhaps that explains Rep. Greg Pence’s recent change of heart. Pence, R-Columbus, who is not seeking re-election, took a long, strange trip to eventually arrive at “yes” on a critical vote to continue our nation’s support of aid to Ukraine. Whatever led him there, it was the right vote.

Today’s editorial cartoon.

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