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- Assembly should reform lobbying
- Dwindling income from state taxes as the weakened economy lingers. Expanding gambling and cutting gambling taxes. Calling for a constitutional vote on property tax caps. Shoring up — again — the state’s unemployment coffers.... Full story
- 20 agencies need us to Live United
- At one time, it was “People Helping People.” Nowadays, it’s “Live United.”The slogans change, but the mission of the United Way remains consistent — and worthy. This mission has graced Jackson County with its... Full story
- Economy can’t stand the cost
- Three area doctors recently sat down with reporter Brandy Emily of The Tribune to discuss their views of the ongoing national debate over health care and health care reform. They represent a voice — three voices, really — of those in... Full story
- Weekly rewards
- Thumbs up to area high school students who carve time from their busy lives to learn lines, run through their rehearsals and stage theater productions such as “Once Upon a Matress” (Trinity Lutheran High School) and “South... Full story
- Chief achieved officer’s dismissal
- Seymour officials have been criticized over how the filing of chief’s charges against Jennifer Johnson was resvolved. In the end, the charges were dismissed and Johnson left the ranks of Seymour Police Department after three years on the job.... Full story
- We salute our veterans today
- In 1968, the federal government approved the Uniform Holiday Act, which was designed to provide three-day weekends for government workers in conjunction with four holidays: George Washington’s birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and Columbus... Full story
- Chops and bacon safe to consume
- Jackson County residents can continue to eat pork should they choose to do so following reports last week of an Indiana swine herd infected by the H1N1 flu virus. The reason for that is simple — you can’t contract the flu by eating... Full story
- Weekly Rewards
- Thumbs up to Seymour Lions Club and Seymour Main Street for staging their Halloween events Oct. 26 on the streets of downtown Seymour. The Lions Club parade is always a fun event for children of all ages and their families. Teaming the Downtown... Full story
- About all those ‘saved’ U.S. jobs
- Washington claims 640,000 to 1.5 million jobs have been created or saved by the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. With only about 15 percent of the money spent so far by those intended to receive it, at this rate America might implausibly end up... Full story
- President’s pay limits ominous
- He who pays the piper calls the tune. This should be a lesson to companies tempted to get in bed with the government or to plead for taxpayer bailouts because they are “too big to fail” after they have experienced a run of bad luck or... Full story
- Stay calm and take precautions
- Jackson County Health Department reported Monday the community had seen its first death related to the H1N1 flu. Statistically, it could well be the last, although no one really knows how many Americans will succumb to H1N1 this winter. Estimates... Full story
- Hatch’s bomb is incomplete pass
- Republicans have attacked President Barack Obama mercilessly for his involvement in virtually every issue from Chicago’s bid to serve as host of the Olympics, to the minutiae of health care reform to his harmless but ridiculously overhyped... Full story
- WEEKLY REWARDS
- Thumbs up to the people honored this month for their support of Turning Point and their efforts to help victims of domestic violence. October has been designated as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.————Thumbs up to... Full story
- Keep eyes open for little goblins and princesses
- Just a reminder to keep your eyes out for children as they go about their trick-or-treat rounds Friday and Saturday nights. Many children will be walking area streets in communities across Jackson County both nights, depending upon where you live.... Full story
- Watch out for a big new tax grab at the local level
- Grab your wallets and purses. The Indiana Association of Cities and Towns plans to push for the Indiana General Assembly to give more taxing power to Hoosier municipalities next year. The association, which represents 470 cities and towns around... Full story
- Victims’ needs go beyond a month
- October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, although of course the scourge of domestic violence occurs each month, each day, of the year. That’s something to keep in mind as attention is paid to Turning Point and other... Full story
- Politicians should not sell votes, nor should voters
- Political corruption remains a perennial concern for the voting public, and with good reason. Still, this particular brand of dishonesty has something in common with other human failings: People tend to see it clearly in others but not so clearly in... Full story
- The Senate mugs the U.S. military
- This country would be much safer, with its core national interests better served, if the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan were ended immediately. While U.S troops are in the field, however, it is difficult to express just how utterly unconscionable... Full story
- Let us punt but not quit the effort
- OK. Gov. Mitch Daniels called an audible last week, finally, recognizing that attempts to update Indiana’s inefficient welfare system through what became a $1.34 billion privatization deal headed by IBM failed. But that doesn’t mean... Full story
- VA should trust its own doctors
- Most folks would agree that going to war is of itself a stressful prospect for any rational person. Just ask any of the hundreds of Jackson County veterans and their families who have fought in wars from Normandy to Takrit over the past half-century... Full story
- Hoosiers rightly proud of Nobel laureate
- With the hoopla over the fellow who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize in Economic Science for 2009 has received less attention than usual. The recipients, Elinor “Lin” Ostrom of Indiana University and Oliver Williamson of... Full story
- Weekly rewards
- Thumbs up to the folks who turned out to give blood at the donor center organized by Jackson County Chapter of the American Red Cross during this year’s Seymour Oktoberfest. Another opportunity to donate blood is coming up — 11 a.m. to 3... Full story
- Jackson County shares its wealth
- As politicians and commentators make blithe references to the 10-digit sums they want to see applied to this problem or that, consider the following figure: $306 billion. Not chump change by any means, or an amount pried loose from taxpayers’... Full story
- FTC is bullying the blogosphere with new regs
- Rules on disclosing financial ties aren’t needed and discriminate against online media.In a major blow to freedom on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4-0 to establish new rules in an attempt to regulate freedom of speech on the... Full story
- President is truly curious selection for peace prize
- Well, President Barack Obama is not the first, shall we say, nonobvious and, indeed, rather eccentric choice by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody knows exactly what guided the five-member committee selected by... Full story
- Senate needs to pass shield law
- We praised the U.S. House of Representatives when it approved Indiana 6th District Mike Pence’s so-called media shield law, which aims to protect reporters from prosecution and imprisonment should they refuse to identify confidential sources.... Full story
- A strong case for mutual assistance
- Area firefighters deserve a thumbs up for efforts in controlling and knocking down Monday’s fire on the courthouse square in downtown Brownstown. It was the second major fire in the county seat in about two months. And once again firefighters... Full story
- Judicial fireworks return to court
- A year after its landmark ruling that the Second Amendment secures an individual, not collective, right to possess firearms, the Supreme Court signaled last week that it will accompany it with another historic decision — whether that right... Full story
- Help us celebrate Newspaper Week
- Positive news is good news — and we’ve got a little to share. Newspapers have been in our community for more than 100 years, dating back to the mid-1800s. Since that time, Jackson County has always had a regular newspaper, and in the... Full story
- Net neutrality isn’t so neutral
- The phrase “net neutrality” has an ingratiating appeal. Net neutrality rules proposed by the Federal Communications Commission would “prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information”... Full story
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