Local Opinion

“I may be old, and I may be young, but I am not done changing,” sings John Mayer in 2017’s “Changing.” Let’s pretend for a few minutes that this song is being sung by America.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From: John Hurley

From: Shirley Holmes

Barely making the year-end, city and county leaders last week gathered in a chilly rain to break ground on a bicentennial-year project that connects Columbus and Bartholomew County’s past with its future.

AS the new year begins, a lot of folks are thinking about their charitable contributions, and there is no better place for your donated dollars than your local food bank or other nutrition programs.

It’s no secret that diabetes is becoming the scourge of America. It plagues 1 in 10 Americans, and every one of us probably knows someone who struggles with the disease. In 2017, the US mortality rate for diabetes was 42% higher than the average among 10 other industrialized countries. That’s a poor showing for America.

Richard Crawford

Indiana’s top lawyer, Attorney General Todd Rokita, who irresponsibly suggested that COVID data was not to be believed, got a well-deserved scolding from Gov. Eric Holcomb last week. Not content to just undermine the governor’s emergency authority in court, Rokita is now pouring salt on the wounds of sick Hoosiers and care providers living through a public health nightmare.

For many years, my family spent New Year’s Day huddled around a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle set up on a card table in the middle of our living room, the Rose Bowl parade lumbering across our television screen in the background and the smell of cabbage rolls hanging in the air like the overripe carcass of a fallen reindeer.