Local Opinion

From: Tom Vujovich

Mike Pence will not appeal a judge’s order that he testify before a federal grand jury scrutinizing attempts by former President Donald Trump and his supporters to subvert President Joe Biden’s victory before the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a spokesman for Pence said last week.

From: A. Jack Heaton

I have a sister named Peggy. But because “Peggy” is not a saint’s name, my grandmother objected to my parents naming her that. So, the name they gave her was “Margaret,” and only to satisfy grandma and an outdated, dumb, Catholic rule. Peggy legally changed her name when she was old enough to do it herself, and to eliminate that dumbness once and for all. Whew!

One of these things is not like the others,

Indiana Policy Review book reviewer Mark Franke recently asked one of the most important questions of the modern political era: “Where is the red line between reasonable compromise and dying on the hill of principle?”

Jeff Smulyan delivered the line almost as a throwaway, but it had a sting.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that beginning in April it will provide approximately $123 million in additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying farm loan program borrowers who are facing financial risk. The relief is part of the $3.1 billion to help distressed farm loan borrowers that was provided through Section 22006 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

You can’t get much for 50 cents these days, but if everyone were to pitch in 50 cents for a cause, well, that’s a different story.

From: Sheryl Nulph