Perspective

Climate change on Hoosier minds

Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:00 AM

A new poll indicates that a large majority of Hoosiers believe climate change is happening to some extent and are supportive of measures to address its impact on the state.

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Native plants may be at greater risk than non-natives

Saturday, June 15, 2019 9:00 AM

BLOOMINGTON — As spring advances across the Midwest, a new study looking at blooming flowers suggests that non-native plants might outlast native plants in the region due to climate change.

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Why your perception of ‘old’ changes as you age

Thursday, June 13, 2019 3:00 PM

My perception of old age is inextricably linked to my grandmother. When I was a kid, I thought this 65-year-old, white-haired woman whose entire body wobbled when she walked was very old. Now that I’m 66, my personal perception — or perhaps, misperception — of old age has changed. I suspect I’ve got lots of company.

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Making meals free to all students isn’t answer

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 3:00 PM

I can barely keep track of all the shaming going on these days. There is fat shaming. And slut shaming. And stay-at-home-mom shaming and LGBTQ shaming and even religion shaming.

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Overload of ‘expert advice’ only causes confusion

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 2:45 PM

Eggs may make me healthier. Then again, they might kill me.

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Now 95, Madison vet honored for WWII service

Tali Hunt

Thursday, June 6, 2019 2:50 PM

Corporal Arthur Martin, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, received a standing ovation, awards and many thanks for the sacrifices he made as a 19-year-old serving in General Patton’s 3rd Army in the Rhineland area of Germany.

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D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design

Thursday, June 6, 2019 2:21 PM

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Young farmer from Indiana testifies in D.C.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019 2:57 PM

Jackson County farmer Liz Brownlee is in Washington, D.C., to tell a congressional subcommittee that two agencies in the U.S. Department of Agriculture should stay in the capital and not be moved to the Midwest, as has been proposed.

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Advocates still hope to give voters a voice Coalition will be advocating transparency and a chance for real public input

Thursday, May 30, 2019 3:00 PM

Julia Vaughn hasn’t given up on putting Indiana’s once-a-decade redistricting process in the hands of voters.

“We’re going to keep trying,” she said.

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Most Democrats tiptoe past the question

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 3:00 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders in Congress have argued that impeaching President Donald Trump is a political mistake as the 2020 election nears. Most of the candidates running to succeed him seem to agree, for now.

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No chance that Trump will be impeached

Tuesday, May 28, 2019 3:00 PM

President Donald Trump should not be impeached. Not now. Probably never.

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‘An Evening of Cordial Politics’

Saturday, May 25, 2019 9:00 AM

To the editor:

Are you as frustrated as I am that we can’t talk about politics without being afraid of offending someone?

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Thank you to everyone for Colton support

Saturday, May 25, 2019 9:00 AM

To the editor:

On behalf of our entire family we would like to thank everyone for their unbelievable support. We have been overwhelmed by the help of our family, concerned community members, school personnel, and many old and now new friends.

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Thank you for the job-shadowing

Saturday, May 25, 2019 8:57 AM

To the editor:

We recently celebrated our 10th year of Job Shadowing at Switzerland County Middle School and I would like to take the time to personally thank everyone who has supported our students over those years.

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Hidden reports mask scope of harm from faulty heart device

Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:00 PM

Faced with the possibility that a bout of abnormal heartbeats could end his life, in 2006, Dr. Marc Sicklick had a small device implanted in his chest that would shock it back into rhythm. Soon he would struggle with another life-or-death choice: whether to remove the Sprint Fidelis, which was deemed dangerous and recalled in 2007 after it had been implanted in hundreds of thousands of patients.

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FDA to end program that hid millions of reports on faulty medical devices

Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:00 PM

The Food and Drug Administration announced it is shutting down its controversial “alternative summary reporting” program and ending its decades-long practice of allowing medical device makers to conceal millions of reports of harm and malfunctions from the general public.

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Desperation; dibs on my chair

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 3:00 PM

Something happened this week that doesn’t happen very often: I missed a few days of work. Although technically, that’s not quite true. For these days work will track you down, and with a vengeance yank you back into harness.

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Indiana Chamber eyes tariff increases with caution

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 3:00 PM

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce is cautioning that the recent tariff increases on Chinese goods could lead to devastating effects for the Hoosier businesses.

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Driving dreams torpedoed by Mom’s ‘sensible car’

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 3:00 PM

In the summer of 1960, I learned to drive my mother’s green, 1948 Pontiac Torpedo Deluxe Sedan.

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Not the first fire at the Courthouse

Saturday, May 18, 2019 11:58 AM

The cupola, the roof and much of the interior of the Jefferson County Courthouse were destroyed by fire — 150 years and three months ago. “But the building remained standing with enough integrity that it was deemed salvageable,” architectural historian Link Ludington of Madison wrote in a study of the building in 1998.

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