A pegleg can’t hold you down
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler Grandpa told me that he knew a certain man who had an indominable spirit and refused to acknowledge defeat. He was blind in one eye,…
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Stories from the political front
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler Having lived through several elections, experience has taught me that one cannot always tell jokes during the political season without having the joke misconstrued or…
Friedman’s ideas explain current inflation woes
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Fuel prices, food prices, home prices, oh my! In February of 2022, actual inflation rates reached 7.9 percent,…
Use the whole saw
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler As a young man growing up on a farm, my grandfather taught me how to use tools. He had been a contractor in Fort Wayne…
When there’s a Will, there’s a way
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler We often have the pleasure of meeting with people who have questions about their estate plans. Each situation is unique, of course, and it is…
How to buy corn
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler My father taught me that there are several ways to buy and sell corn: (1) The arm’s length transaction, where each person negotiates from their…
Centralized corporate, state power is antithetical to human liberty
Editor’s note: This column was updated at 5:22 p.m. on Saturday, March 12 to remove a paragraph that referred to statements made by Professor Michael Rectenwald, Chief Academic Officer for…
So, you want to run for office?
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler So, you want to run for office? The Election Board at its last meeting had the difficult task of removing several people from the May…
Finding joy in life’s failures
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler It drove me crazy as a kid when my father used to tell me, “It’s all in your mind.” In a series of previous columns…
How many roads must a man drive down . . .
By RAY ADLER Ask Adler Recently, I accidentally met a man by the name of Rob McCoy. Rob was from out of town and needed a ride from his hotel…