Around Town – Oct. 4

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Oct. 4

Orchids to

the valet parking service at CRH, for all you do.

Notre Dame Law School’s exoneration project revealing uncomfortable truths.

the article by Whitney Downard about the Indiana Economic Development Corp. forensic analysis showing rather questionable spending of taxpayer money.

Jane Goodall, an absolutely great woman, we shall miss her!

First United Methodist Church for their help with the sound system for the Hoosier Action Committee.

school board members Nicole Wheeldon, Whittney Loyd, Dale Nowlin and Logan Schulz for attending the Support Our Schools Hoosier Action Committee meeting, as well as administrators Chad Phillips and Brett Boezeman.

Onions to

Indiana Medicaid requiring a prior authorization on a $12 antibiotic for a sick child.

pushing the idea that wanting health care for the poor and elderly is putting the party over the people.

the political party that says they are looking out for the people, but at the same time are taking away their health care.

the pharmacy that never has my prescription and has to order it from somewhere else, from someone not well.

grave injustice when flimsy evidence fuels rush to judgment.

the representative who must think that by donating his pay during the shutdown to a Franklin nonprofit, it would excuse his failure to vote on the stopgap measure to avert the shutdown.

the country that provides the biggest government subsidizing world trade, unfairly disrupting markets.

the draft dodger and talk show host who made clowns of themselves lecturing generals and admirals about how the U.S. military should be run.

the people unhappy a U.S. citizen (Bad Bunny) was chosen to perform at the Super Bowl.

the would-be dictator’s hypocritical dictate to tell universities what they can say and do in the name of antidiscrimination.

the very idea of even nominating somebody who has done nothing but spreading chaos and divisiveness for the Nobel Peace Prize.

the spiteful convicted felon for freezing the funds already approved for infrastructure projects in Democratic cities like Chicago and New York.

the voters for putting in a senile elected leader who only wants to help autocrats and himself, when a very capable woman who would have put in capable people could have had the job.

politicians who held a 24-hour-long internet broadcast, which drew a paltry 1,000 viewers.