Opinion

“Everything is hard before it is easy.”  – Goethe When I read/hear/view about all the wonderful “weight loss” programs that abound in our Western society today, I am saddened by…

Public transportation, sometimes called mass transit, has become an issue of interest for Hamilton County. Advocates of the service are gearing up for the start of new bus routes in…

The County Line For folks interested in local history there is a great source of interesting stories of people, places and events written by Hamilton County Historian David Heighway, staff…

It was one year ago this month that my mom – at the age of 68 – finally quit smoking after 54 years of lighting up, a habit she started…

Dear Editor: Indiana is consistently ranked near the bottom of the 50 states for health, a statistic made worse because too many Hoosiers smoke. The Institute of Medicine says the…

Dear Editor: The Indiana Transportation Museum is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization that I have volunteered with for almost a decade. The organization, founded in 1960, has safely transported more…

When I left off last week, I talked about falling and breaking my arm in San Francisco.  I broke my arm and then was very sick on the long plane…

The Indiana Transportation Museum, longtime operator of the excursion trains on the Nickel Plate Railroad, has a petition drive in progress designed to encourage local officials to keep the railroad…

What do we know?  Not much after the joint announcements by Noblesville and Fishers Mayor’s to convert the Nickel Plate rail line into trails between the two cities.  The announcement…