Letter: Health care philosophy like light in darkness
From: Nancy Warren
Columbus
In times of darkness and ridden with a sense of hopelessness regarding a humanity that can...
Letter: Veterans deserve best possible health care
From: Pamela Weiss
Columbus
Patriotic citizens should be alarmed by the Associated Press story “VA’s Problems Mount” in the July...
Letter: Governor’s policies drive Indiana to the bottom
From: Denny Kubal
Nashville
Gov. Mike Pence is fighting to make Indiana No. 1. Indiana is the fifth-worst air polluter...
Congress needs insiders, outsiders
Members of Congress get categorized in all sorts of ways.
They’re liberal or conservative; Republican or Democrat; interested in domestic affairs or...
Letter: Stiffen local ordinance regulating feeding operations
From: Dennis Tibbetts
Columbus
Data collected by members of the CAFO Study Committee compares zoning ordinances of Bartholomew County against...
‘Seriousness of purpose’ left quite an impression
Many young people can’t remember the time when Robert N. Stewart was Columbus’ mayor, but I knew little else during the first half of...
Clifty candy thieves cause sour feeling after damage
The idea of stealing candy from a kid is just wrong. But to essentially do it over and over? That’s low.
That’s...
Hope Solo might be a mess, but she’s America’s mess
Hope Solo has become the most important sports story of 2015.
Solo is not, as many have claimed, the female Ray Rice...
Opinions differ on job force numbers
We were eating breakfast when it happened.
“There are a whole bunch of people in Indiana who have given up looking for...
Letter: Schools deserve breathing room from CAFOs
From: Kate O'Halloran
Columbus
In a recent edition of The Republic, we learned that Rockcreek Elementary School will undergo renovations....





