Keeping taxes low is a top priority
By CHRIS JETER State Representative State lawmakers recently wrapped up the 2022 legislative session, and much of the debate within the Statehouse these past few months centered on tax cuts…
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It’s only Wordle and Wordle is all he has
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch The last thing the world really needs right now is another word nerd writing about his or her Wordle experiences, causing readers to suffer through some…
Good health habits will prolong your own personal ‘Route 66’ trip
By SHARON McMAHON Be Well “Get your kicks on Route 66” – Bobby Troup, 1946 (Readers – this is a reprint of an article I wrote a few years ago;…
Basement memories
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched As we sat in our basement last Sunday morning around 3:30 a.m. thanks to tornado warnings, I couldn’t help remembering another basement from long ago. My…
End of an era when Kirk’s closes March 31
By FRED SWIFT The County Line The longest running business on Noblesville’s Courthouse Square is closing its doors March 31. Bill Prater, owner of Kirk Hardware at 848 Logan St.,…
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…
Governor Holcomb can take a stand for Hoosiers with disabilities by signing HB 1242
By JEFFREY MITTMAN Guest Columnist In 1987, President Ronald Reagan officially established March as National Disability Awareness Month. Today, 35 years later, I reflect on the past and look toward…
Goodbye, my heart
By STU CLAMPITT Chasing Wisdom Two weeks ago, I was driving my daughter down some miscellaneous midnight road to deliver stacks and packs of The Reporter. She sat beside me…
Lead me not to be funny turned
By JANET HART LEONARD From the Hart “Well, she is just a bit funny turned,” said my mother. Oh, I knew exactly what my mother meant whenever she said anyone…
The Girl Across The Field Revisited
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch The field just sat there day and night That’s all they said it could do But I know that’s not entirely right For it took me…