ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: Examining the COVID ‘lab-leak’ theory
New York Daily News
We don’t yet know where the virus that causes COVID-19, the disease that’s killed nearly 600,000 Americans and 3.5 million globally,...
Mark Franke: Pondering our post-pandemic selves
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
These haunting words of poet William Butler Yeats were written in 1919. His poem “The Second Coming” was...
Michael Hicks: Thoughts on the infrastructure plan
President Biden has laid out his infrastructure plan. The American Jobs Plan contains spending priorities that go well beyond traditional roads and bridges. It...
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: In the Indiana Legislature, money talks
Anderson Herald Bulletin
The report from the Hoosier Action Resource Center is titled “Corporate Captive: Big Business at the Indiana General Assembly.”
“Corporate Captive” is a...
John Krull: Rokita continues Indiana AG tradition
There must be something about the office of Indiana attorney general that attracts people who are, as my late grandfather used to say, “half...
Morton Marcus: The minimum wage quagmire
The minimum wage discussion is remarkably complex.
The Biden administration has proposed a gradual increase from the current federal minimum of $7.25 an hour to...
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT: Don’t bring back congressional earmarks
Chicago Tribune
For a long time, pork barrel legislation and corruption have been close companions. Politicians had ways of bringing federally funded projects to their...
Letter to the editor: Merit board is ignoring bipartisan protocols
To the editor:Did you know the Hancock County Sheriff’s Merit Board is supposed to consist of Republicans and Democrats? State statute says not more...
Letter to the editor: County council hands out easy money
To the editor:On May 12, the county council voted 6-0 to give $195,000 to the Hancock County 4-H Agricultural Association, a private group. Evidently,...
Leo Morris: Are mere citizens trustworthy?
Who’s in charge here?
In a constitutional republic, the answer should be obvious. The people are. We have inalienable rights merely by our existence as...
