Valarie Holbrook: Creating playful summer memories
Some of my favorite memories growing up were getting together with my extended family.
The reason for the get-togethers and the food options changed, but...
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: Elderly public figures making a difference
This editorial was originally published June 7 in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What do Queen Elizabeth (95), Janet Yellen (74), our president (78) and the pope...
Michael Hicks: Some early Census results for Indiana
The Census Bureau is now rolling out their population estimates from the 2020 counts. We have state and now local municipal counts. These figures...
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: The Great American labor shortage
This editorial was originally published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.
Businesses nearly everywhere in America say they’re desperate for workers, and the latest statistical...
Morton Marcus: Just the facts, please
Here are the facts about Hoosier earnings, with comparisons to the nation, in the years of 1999 and 2019.
These years were chosen to bracket...
Dick Wolfsie: Food battles helped build America
There is an awesome new show on the History channel called "The Food That Built America."
Each episode takes an edible item like pizza, burgers...
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: Dialing back vaccination clinics makes sense
This editorial was originally published June 4 in our sister paper The (Columbus) Republic.
The concept of supply and demand can be applied to Columbus...
David Carlson: Like poison ivy in a garden
How would you like to be considered three-fifths of an American?
From our nation’s beginning until the end of the Civil War, that was the...
Thinking about a longtime family member
I was thinking about my eldest daughter’s college buddies when I was wiping down the legs of my kitchen stools today.
I remember meeting Nikki...
‘A Quiet Place Part II’ is unrelenting in its intensity
Like many, I didn’t get to go to a movie theater in 2020. For a movie reviewer, that really stinks. I appreciated movie studios...