2022 food trends: Love them or hate them?

As I write this year-end essay about 2022 trends in food and dining, I must confess that I’m playing catch-up.

Bless the first responders

It was just last week when I announced my intention to embrace the joy of the Christmas season, “wherever I find it,...

Debating Indiana partisan school board elections

In the 2011 session of the General Assembly, the legislature passed (and I supported) HEA 1074 that effectively changed the state’s school...

Indiana lawmakers need to do more listening in 2023

My New Years wish is pretty simple: I would like lawmakers to listen to what Hoosiers want. all Hoosiers, not just the...

How a Russian composer took over American Christmas

It takes some doing in this country to be more than about 25 miles from a production...

What the 2022 election tells us

There’s great uncertainty on Capitol Hill these days, as ambitious politicians maneuver for advantage in the newly reshaped House and the Senate...

Braun, Young and Pence should rebuke Trump

Former President Donald Trump says and does so many outlandish things that it has become tempting to just ignore him. With his...

The bulls in the china shop

Poor Eric Doden. The Fort Wayne businessman has been hugely successful in large part because of his ability to...

Watch out: They’re rethinking high school in Indiana Legislature

No sentence should strike more fear into the hearts of Hoosier parents than this one, variations of which have appeared in numerous...

FTX and our pretend money

“According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,” the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter “is home...