Opinion

Prosecutors in the recent Michigan school shooting by a 15-year-old student that left four dead also have filed manslaughter charges against the shooter’s parents, whose gun he used.

Thanksgiving at my home was a delightful affair. We enjoyed a large family gathering, well-seasoned with old and new friends. Nobody spoke of inflation, which is always a welcomed thing. In fact, my advice to anyone whose Thanksgiving table is despoiled by macroeconomics, is to establish hard fines for such talk next year. Still, there’s no way to avoid noticing a change in prices this season, and it is helpful to try to make some sense of the data.

Last week, Indiana lawmakers failed to reach a consensus in an effort to rush through legislation enacting a statewide ban on vaccine mandates.

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t seem himself.

Normally, I wait until mid-December.

President Joe Biden got it right: The new coronavirus variant omicron is “a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.”

Instead of reading the newspaper this morning, imagine this local newspaper didn’t come to your house.

Refugees from Afghanistan are making their way to their new homes in America, including many of the roughly 7,200 who have come to Camp Atterbury after fleeing their home country.

Mary Ellen and I have a standing argument — literally, a standing argument.

A government professor at Skidmore College in upstate New York recently wrote an op-ed that was carried in my local newspaper. My wife recommended the column to me since it was about one of my favorite subjects — the United States Constitution.