Opinion

Actually, money does grow on trees

By BILL SCHMIDT Guest Columnist In today’s challenging economic climate, many cities and developers are seeking innovative strategies to increase revenue and stimulate economic development while attracting residents and businesses….

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Dear diary

Anyone else have a diary with a lock on it in your early school days? Where you kept your deepest secrets and privately wrote about your childhood crushes? Under NO…


Mother was a drop-out, part 2

Freshmen took whatever subjects they were assigned. I took Algebra I, English I, Biology, Home Ec, and Physical Education. After that year, students chose their “course” and took whatever subjects…





Indiana leads on energy innovation

By RYAN CRNARICH Guest Columnist It’s an exciting time to live and work in Indiana, as a spate of new clean energy and technology manufacturing projects are promising 21st century…


Degrees of love

As Chuck, my perpetual thermostat adversary, walked through the living room, I could see he realized that I had tampered with the thermostat setting. He quickly glanced at the Honeywell…