Opinion

I intended to write something pithy about the just-concluded General Assembly session since it was full of portentous news: a whopping $44 billion budget; new public health initiatives; an enormous expansion of school choice; last-minute, eye-popping raises for the governor and other top elected state officials; a deep dive into the morass of contentious social issues.

To the Editor:

Ah, spring cleaning. The time when we all come together to shed the laziness of winter and re-organize our lives. And I can’t get enough of this craze of the spring season.

This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day.

Inflation is the decline in the value of currency caused by an increase in the supply of money. The supply of money is increased by excessive government deficit spending or excessively loose monetary policy, typically low interest rates. We measure this decline in the value of currency through an increase in the price of goods and services. That’s it. That is inflation.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita seems to have just two problems with being a public servant.

“Good day!”

Did you know that when you prepare asparagus you probably make 12 mistakes? Hold on a few minutes while I explain why I am asking this question.

When the calendar turned to May, our whole family breathed a sigh of relief.

I will pick on my own ethnic background to offer the following example. If 95% of violent crime in this country — murders, gun violence, sexual assaults, trafficking of minors, school bullying, hate crimes and road rage — were committed by Swedish-Americans, wouldn’t we demand to know what’s terribly wrong with Americans of Swedish ancestry? Wouldn’t we investigate every factor we could think of, from genetics, to how Swedish-Americans raise their children, to diet, to anti-social tendencies in order to address and treat this disturbing trend?