What investors can – and can’t – control
By COREY SYLVESTER Cicero Edward Jones As an investor, you can easily feel frustrated to see short-term drops in your investment statements. But while you cannot control the market, you…
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For him, a little kudos can go a wrong way
By SCOTT SAALMAN Scaramouch I was walking in my neighborhood when a bicyclist shouted, “I liked your last two columns.” A rarity. An unsolicited compliment from an uncloseted reader for…
Hope and happiness
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched It’s been three weeks since my mom’s funeral, and I’m surprised that most of my memories of the day are happy ones. This was completely unexpected,…
Hope & Recovery comes to Noblesville
By ROCKY SHANEHSAZ Guest Columnist Drug overdoses kill more than 100,000 Americans per year – more than vehicle crashes and gun deaths combined. Fentanyl, a legal prescription pain medication, is…
Fairgrounds makeover plans become public
By FRED SWIFT The County Line A proposed multi-million-dollar upgrade for the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds was presented to county commissioners this week. Plans to improve the 40-acre fairgrounds have…
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,…
Low voter turnout likely as primary election nears
By FRED SWIFT The County Line Primary elections do not often bring voters to the polls in record numbers, but with less than a week until this year’s May 3…
To boost U.S. manufacturing & energy, GOP should advance conservative solution
By CHRIS ELMORE Hamilton County Young Republicans Chair Guest Columnist For many in my generation, the emerging energy crisis has cast doubt on the preferred climate strategies of the environmental…
Hamilton County, Indiana: Living the dream
By SUZIE JAWOROWSKI Guest Columnist I was brought up in the hustle, bustle burbs of Washington, D.C. in Annandale, Va. It was a great place to grow up with the…
My favorite gal authors
By JANET HART LEONARD From the Hart I wish I could write like her. Erma Bombeck or Fannie Flagg or Shauna Niequest or Ann Voskamp. They are my mentors. These…