Our Opinion
Weekly rewards
Thumbs up to poll workers for this week's primary and school board elections in Jackson County. They worked a long day and kept their heads with a higher-than-normal turnout and, for some, the problem of running out of Democratic ballots.----Thumbs down...
Congratulations and a challenge
We offer congratulations to those elected Tuesday as trustees for Seymour Community Schools and Crothersville Community Schools. We also thank those candidates who opposed them in the election. Running for public office is a big commitment. Doing the...
Clinton, Obama both claim progress toward nomination
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton narrowly won Indiana and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won North Carolina in Tuesday's primary elections. Did the balloting resolve the Democratic Party's choice for its presidential nominee? Pundits and supporters have...
Cutting gas tax isn't best option
Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton are off the mark with their plans for a summer gas tax holiday. It's also unlikely such a proposal can even be passed in Washington this spring. The latest twist in Clinton's proposal - perhaps...
Become educated on candidates and issues, then go vote
We encourage Jackson County voters to use the information provided in our election coverage from this spring in print in The Tribune and online at TribTown.com, along with material from elsewhere, to make themselves familiar with the candidates and their...
Weekly rewards
Thumbs up to the people who volunteer to serve on absentee voter boards. Running an election is a difficult, time-consuming process. We should keep that in mind next Tuesday, as well, and maybe thank those who serve their political parties as poll workers.----Thumbs...
Obama shirks debate challenge
Would we really learn anything that might shape our votes next Tuesday should New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama debate again? We don't know, and apparently won't have an opportunity to find out. That's because Obama...
Ruling on voter ID is right one
The Indiana Democratic Party quickly launced a complaint about Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld the state's voter identification law. Six of nine justices agreed Indiana's photo ID requirement represented a valid measure to deter voter...
Change in sheriff pay isn’t enough
Indiana lawmakers did not go far enough this winter in reforming how Indiana's 92 counties pay their sheriffs. Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the measure into law, with an effective date of January 2011. That's when current sheriffs either leave office or...
DNA database poses a threat
Our federal government will widen its policy of collecting DNA samples from people convicted of federal crimes to collect them from all people arrested in connection with a federal crime. This practice is expected to add genetic identifiers from about...
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