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Ask Amy: College student worries about racism at home
Dear Readers: To mark my final week writing this column, I’ve fired up the “Ask Amy” Wayback machine and am re-running some memorable Q&As culled from the last 21 years of “Ask Amy.” Continue...
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Brian Howey: Will Beckwith be a Braun team player or a wild card?
After his second unsuccessful congressional run, Mike Pence launched his radio and TV shows where he and his bipartisan guests weighed in on the issues of the day throughout the 1990s. Continue reading...
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Michael Hicks: Some good reasons for partisan perceptions about the economy
Several readers objected to my recent column about economic illiteracy colliding with feelings about today’s booming economy. I was tempted to quote a pithy bumper sticker about the relevance of...
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Ask Amy: Married couples share wedding mishaps
Dear Readers: With wedding season upon us, I’m re-running a favorite column from 2021 devoted to wedding mishaps — all sent in by readers. Continue reading at The Republic News.
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Mark Franke: The violently selfish campus
“People talk about the divide in this country as though we were standing on opposite sides of a chasm. When the reality is that we are standing over the chasm, as if on a bridge. You’re never going to...
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Letter: Help conserve vanishing Hoosier, US old-growth forests
From: Julie Lowe, Conservation Committee chair of the Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter Continue reading at The Republic News.
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Editorial: United Way’s local effort stands out
United Way is perhaps America’s best known umbrella organization that does well by doing good in communities nationwide, just as it has since its humble beginnings in the 1880s. Importantly, United Way...
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Ask Amy: Exiting with some well-worn wisdom
Dear Readers: Since announcing my departure from writing this syndicated column, I have heard from scores of people across various platforms, thanking me for more than two decades of offering advice...
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Jay Ambrose: Don’t waste time pondering poll results
It bugs me, it really bugs me, that too often when you tune into a TV discussion about the Biden-Trump presidential race, you hear too little about issues and endless, totally pointless gab about who...
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Michael Leppert: When McCormick picked Goodin, the hope of a meaningful...
Life in Stephen King’s Shawshank State Prison is, at its best, mundane, repetitive and stagnant. As is the state of politics in Indiana. Surviving either or both, doesn’t require lightning to strike....
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Editorial: Excel Center adult high school will meet big needs
We’re soon getting a new high school in Columbus — one that is both nontraditional and very much needed. Continue reading at The Republic News.
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Asking Eric: Mom struggles to get over son’s breakup
Dear Eric: My youngest son (my baby!) had a horrible breakup last year. I still hate her and sob-yelled during an Alanis Morrissette concert to “You Oughta Know”. Yes, I sob-yelled in public. Cue...
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Asking Eric: Couple struggles with different life purposes
Dear Eric: I’ve been seeing my partner for more than a year. They’re over 40, noncommittal and “don’t know what [they] want out of life”. I’m in my late 30s and definitely want to cohabitate and...
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Asking Eric: Friends act like moving away is disappearing
Dear Eric: I’m 33 years old and my parents are in their 60s, close to retirement age. They are also full-time caregivers to my disabled younger brother. They have asked that I move back into their...
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Michael Hicks: Silly Indiana tax cut proposals
We are well into election season, so we are bombarded with talk of slashing taxes. Nearly all of this is electioneering nonsense that won’t come to pass. Continue reading at The Republic News.
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Emmy Hildebrand: Supreme Court homeless decision will harm veterans
On Friday, the United States Supreme Court made it illegal to be homeless in the United States in the ruling on City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. We at Helping Veterans and Families Inc. (HVAF) of...
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