Opinion

I took one year of French in high school where, due to my lack of self-discipline when it came to practice and studying, I did not do well, to put it mildly.

Indiana’s Stellar Community Grants and Regional Cities Program are among the nation’s most innovative and effective place-based economic development efforts. Although it is too early to say for certain, the recent READI grants likely do much the same for local population growth as did the two earlier programs (Stellar Communities and Regional Cities). Indiana has been doing place-based development for a decade and a half. There’s a case to be made that the Hoosier efforts should be a national model for this type of investment.

At last, Donald Trump told the truth.

No sentence should strike more fear into the hearts of Hoosier parents than this one, variations of which have appeared in numerous recent news stories:

This kind of thing could only happen to me. In a way, that’s good, because if things like this happened to you, you’d have your own humor column.

On these cold and short December nights, the routine around our house tends to be the same.

“No man is an island” is a familiar quotation of the poet John Donne. But there was more to Donne’s thought than just that phrase. The reading continues in this way: “No man is an island entire of himself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Perhaps the shortest summary of Donne’s point is that we are all connected and all part of one family — the human family.

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