Around Town – Jan. 17

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Jan. 17

Orchids to

Rust-Unger Monuments for carefully correcting earlier mistakes.

John Krull for a terrific, right-on-target column about the governor’s State of the State speech.

John Krull for his column regarding the current governor and his State of the State speech.

Onions to

the federal elected official who voices concern for the welfare of protesters in Iran at the same time ICE is terrorizing U.S. citizens and is now threatening to use the U.S. military to squash protests.

taking personal doxing for legislators to be aware of the problem, maybe they should do a couple of weeks of grocery shopping to understand the affordability issue.

the utter hypocrisy of criticizing the Iranian regime for the violent repression of peaceful demonstrators while at the same time doubling up on the repression of peaceful protesters in Minneapolis.

the convicted felon trying to do in Greenland what the Russian czar has been doing in Ukraine.

those who talk a lot about defending democracy, yet support anarchists and criminals.

the elected leader who is spending all of the taxpayers’ money on himself, the military and ICE, leaving farmers and low income people without food and medical care.

our elected officials for not putting the reins on the would-be dictator in the White House.

the Indiana elected offical who talks a good game about the legislative branch holding the executive branch accountable, but proved he will always fall in line.