Thursday, April 3, 2025

Are college costs getting too high?

State Rep. Ed DeLaney suggests he knows the problem facing Indiana’s institutions of higher learning. “I understand math,” the...

Human capital is the source of prosperity

The economic view of growth is pretty simple. People and businesses are attracted to places based on three factors — local productivity,...

Angelkeep Journals: The amazing ‘water fishing spider’

Not in a million years would anyone at Angelkeep have guessed Angelpond held spiders that swam underwater without scuba gear, outmaneuvered and...

Major League Baseball, if you can afford it

Now that the patriotic observances are past, it’s time to turn to another pillar of Americanism — baseball. Despite...

State politics increasingly fought in courtrooms

To cover government and politics these days you almost need a law degree. That’s because virtually every controversial issue ends up in...

Hoosier consumers need right to repair

Farmers in Indiana and all across the country scored a hard-won victory this year. As outlined in a CNHI...

Flooded with a variety of emotional memories

Whenever anyone mentions The Flood of 2003, my first thought is of one particular photo. When I...

Letters to the Editor: Time to get serious about a trail along Ind....

Back on Sept. 30, 2022, the News-Banner published an article on a new trail along Ind. 124. I wrote about this issue...

It’s a small, small world. After all.

Last Friday I spent the day at a funeral for my aunt, Dozzy Coburn, who was the former first lady of Butler,...

Angelkeep Journals: What ‘May’ you name a June bug in July?

Do you remember when you had to “spring forward” by an hour on all of your clocks a few months ago? It...