Local Opinion

From: Cyrus Robertson

Listen, I don’t want to sound authoritarian, but I hereby announce that the coming week is “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Week,” and that everyone 16 or older is required to sing its lyrics in public at least once a day. After all, the oomph of this delightful ditty has been making millions feel bubbly for decades, and now its Disney owners are banning it from their domain.

A bill in the Indiana General Assembly whose authors and backers said it aimed to protect the rights of parents appears dead this session. There is nothing to mourn in its reported demise.

Mike Pence may have figured things out.

A couple of decades ago, I wrote a book in which I talked about what it takes to be a good citizen in a representative democracy like ours. I thought the principles I laid out were timeless, but I recently reread them and boy, they seem a lot less clear-cut now.

It must be said again and again that 48.2 percent of college graduates in the U.S. were working remotely, according to the February 2023 census survey. That number is up slightly from late 2021, suggesting that remote work is here to stay.

One by one, the members of the House Public Health Committee voted aye to support a program of Dementia Care Specialists in conjunction with the Indiana Division of Aging and the Indiana Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs).

When lawmakers passed a near-total abortion ban last summer in a special session, several key Republicans talked about expanding access to birth control as a companion piece.

Purdue University mathematics professor Clarence Waldo was only at the Indiana Statehouse to lobby for the school during budget talks in February of 1897. That’s when he happened to witness House Bill 246 – to legally change the value of the number pi to 3.2 – pass its third and final reading in the General Assembly’s lower house.

Last week’s shooting of a short film in Columbus — including at the landmark Zaharakos ice cream parlor — was the latest reminder of just how much we have in our community that is unique and makes our city and region a destination.