Opinion

We just got back from Washington, D.C. I was there for a reunion with old college friends who I worked with on The Hatchet, our award-winning newspaper back in the ’60s at George Washington University. I was a humor columnist and that’s where I got my start in journalism.

The gifts my mother has given me are impossible to count.

Indiana’s part-time legislature could work less under a provision inserted into the state budget giving flexibility on the length of future sessions.

Mourning the death of someone whom one has loved can take many forms. Take the recent passing of the songwriter and singer Gordon Lightfoot. Some of us who love Lightfoot’s many songs and the unique quality of his voice will find it too painful to listen for a while to even one of his creations. Others will pay tribute to Lightfoot by playing his songs, one after another.

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.