Opinion

(Jeffersonville) News and Tribune

I have always been proud to be a Hoosier, proclaiming it boldly even to coastal snobs who almost think of it as a confession of mental deficiency.

Dear Mr. Governor,

Now that Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Mike Bost (R-Ill.) are appointed as Armed Services chair and Veterans Affairs respectively, they’ve vowed to end “wokeness” in the military. Before they begin, perhaps we should first ask them what they mean by “wokeness.” We’ve heard the word fairly frequently lately but “woke” is being used as a four-letter word and while I concede that it does, indeed, consist of four letters, I do not agree that it is a bad word and that wokeness is harming our military.

South Bend Tribune

Last week, a computer glitch in the Federal Aviation Authority’s system ground commercial air travel to a halt in the United States for several hours.

(Anderson) Herald Bulletin

To the Editor:

To Senator Mike Crider:

Prognosticating is often a foolhardy endeavor. Especially when uttering long-term predictions. In 1913 many predictions were made foreseeing life in 2013. A number were uncannily accurate while others were so off target as to be hilarious. It was believed there would be fewer newspapers and that we would receive most of our information via wireless means. Flights from Chicago to Hamburg would only take 18 hours; in actuality we now can do that in 13. The U.S. population was predicted to reach 300 million and we’ve already passed that mark by over 30 million Americans. One of my favorites was the prediction of wrist-sized radio telephones. Talk about being prescient.