Opinion

At about the 1:45 mark of President Biden’s recent marathon press, the pool camera panned from a questioner to the president, and in the sweep were Biden staffers in an adjacent hallway. In this fleeting image, more than one of them was fixated on their wristwatches. Later, Biden would do the same himself.

The passage of the “no surprises” legislation in Congress and its implementation Jan. 1 has been a cause for celebration. Consumer protection legislation is hard to pass these days for a lot of reasons, including heavy opposition from the business community and indifference from the politicians. But sustained media coverage and public outrage over the growing number of patients who were getting unexpected large medical bills pushed the law over the finish line.

New York Daily News

To the editor:

To the editor:

I’ve written it before, so to my loyal following, I apologize for how familiar this mantra of mine may sound. However, given the recent passage in the Indiana House of what certainly would be a popular $1 billion tax cut, I felt the time was appropriate to dust this discussion off and move it back to the top of Hoosiers’ collective inbox.

The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

After a harrowing escape from their home nation last summer, some 7,200 Afghan allies of American forces passed through Camp Atterbury on their way to new homes in the United States.

With a $1 trillion infrastructure package on the books and the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillion “Build Back Better” measure preoccupying the Senate after passing the House, government spending is very much on Americans’ minds.

Attorney General Todd Rokita casts doubt on the validity of any state COVID data insinuating that the reporting has been politicized by government officials, hospitals and the “left-wing” media by inflating the numbers.