Monday, January 6, 2025

Inflation is a policy and political problem

The Consumer Price Index was released this week, showing inflation at 8.3 percent, year over year. The...

In memory of ‘Decoration Day’

I don’t recall my parents ever using the term “Memorial Day,” except when referring to the Indianapolis 500-mile race.

A cautionary tale for gun owners

The tense and chaotic episode that unfolded at a Terre Haute shopping center last month was ripe...

Are you deserving? Or just eligible?

This will be a departure — a digression, if you will — from our normally local topics...

Do you like what you’re hearing on TV?

“I can’t heeaarr you!” – Sgt. Vincent Carter on “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” You may...

A very human U.S. Supreme Court

All the pro-choice advocates in my circle are in a “mad as hell and won’t take it...

Angelkeep regulars by m.p.h. standards

The Wright Flyer, piloted by Orville Wright in 1903, accomplished airborne status for twelve seconds achieving the...

We need to take the fentanyl crisis more seriously

The United States is in the grips of a fentanyl crisis that doesn’t get nearly the attention...

The power of music: A time capsule that fits in a pocket

I found a time capsule in an old box I recently dug out of my storage unit....

The court has shifted on abortion over the past 50 years. I have, too.

The explosive leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion suggesting the imminent reversal of Roe v. Wade...