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Feb. 14
Orchids to
Eayon Madden, a junior in the C4 Precision Machine program, who took first place in his national scoring hub for the Project MFG National Machine League, one of only 15 to advance to nationals.
the Brown County gentleman who is part of a group suing big tech for taking down, under the administration’s threats, apps monitoring ICE behavior.
Chase and Tom Bannister for helping us with our lake and ice project.
Onions to
the governor’s executive order banning any change to sex at birth on driver’s licenses, which creates huge problems for thousands of transgender people.
the Big Beautiful Bill that had billions to fund ICE mayhem, but cut funding to rural hospitals, leading to cuts like Johnson Memorial’s elimination of childbirth services.
costing $291.24 a day to keep an alleged illegal migrant in an Indiana correctional facility, what a waste of taxpayers’ money!
the latest version of the Indiana House environmental bill, which could compromise the control of industrial manufacturing pollution.
the current administration spending at least $40 million to deport about 300 migrants to third world countries, another example of wasting our money.
over $40 million being paid to other countries for deportations made by the current administration, when it could make huge differences to so much here at home.
