Become a mentor: Efforts of volunteers help low-income students stay in college
Increased economic opportunity resulting in less poverty is within reach thanks to a statewide mentoring program helping low-income students stay in college.
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Time to focus on growing economy
Recent economic news has been broadly reassuring. Retail sales are strong, November saw the best job gains in three years, the federal deficit is...
Who or what lit fire under President Obama?
Many who voted against President Barack Obama are angry right now. Obama’s Democratic Party took a beating in the November elections, and many expected...
You only need six minutes to have a relaxing new year
I couldn’t help noticing that it took only six minutes.
Just enough time for the second hand to make six laps around...
Painter Steele traveled world to learn, then put Indiana on national art map
He was educated in Europe and trained to emulate the brushstrokes of the Great Masters, yet Theodore Clement Steele’s greatest gift was in depicting...
Private practitioner: A lost medical trust
The family doctor is romanticized in art and literature. We can see the Norman Rockwell painting now — a kindly, plump old fellow, stethoscope...
Coughs, sneezes familiar holiday refrain
The entire family has endured a one-two punch this flu season.
First it was the “Lose 4 Pounds in 24 Hours” bug...
What’s the true market value of work?
Economic theorists have long wrestled with the idea of value. What is it and how can it be measured has occupied dismal scientists for...
‘Rational’ ignorance costly to our economic health
The use of government for economic “development” and economic “stimulus” is quite popular. Unfortunately, its popularity greatly exceeds what it deserves, given both theory...
Face uncertain future with determination, positivity
While wrapping Christmas presents, baking cookies and watching Netflix and during the cousin craft day, I’ve listened to an array of stories about my...