Mark Franke: Trump Cast as Shakespeare’s Richard III
A recent conversation with my editor over future writing assignments inevitably led to Donald Trump. I don’t like writing about him, or about Joe Biden for that matter. That whole situation seems to me to be a surreal collision of “Citizen Kane” and “The Wizard of Oz.” My editor, with his feet more firmly grounded in good literature, called it “Shakespearean.”
Brian Howey: GOP Chairman Hupfer’s historic tenure at the helm
Kyle Hupfer has been, arguably, the most successful major party chairman in Indiana history. His Democrat counterpart, Mike Schmuhl, is attempting to get his party back in the game.
John Krull: Trump mugs to the wrong crowd
So … the mug shot.
Michael Leppert: A year without permits, guns still cost us too much
A racially motivated mass shooting occurred recently in Jacksonville, Florida. Three Black people were murdered before the white gunman turned one of his guns on himself. The 21-year-old legally purchased both the handgun and AR-15 style rifle he used.
Editorial: Voters will have no reason to keep Jim Lucas
The Republic abstains from endorsing candidates for political office. We trust voters to choose wisely based on unbiased information in our news coverage. But we have stated on our Opinion page that we believe Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, is unfit to continue to serve residents in this region as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. We have repeatedly called on Lucas to resign, thus far to no avail.
Michael Hicks: Indiana’s hospital monopolies worsening
I gave testimony last week in front of the state’s new Health Care Cost Oversight Task Force. The commitee had asked me to speak about Indiana’s astonishingly high healthcare costs, particularly in reference to hospitals, and I was happy to do so. I followed folks from the state’s Department of Insurance and an IUPUI professor who’d recently been paid by IU Health to provide a study on healthcare costs in Indiana.
Letter: Reader feels loss as paper reduces to twice weekly
From: Wilford Lutes
Bud Herron: Greeting change, like Scooby’d do
Human beings are an habitual species.
Editorial: College conference realignment is a mess
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Niki Kelly: Newspaper raid an ominous threat that can’t be swept away
As a longtime reporter, I can only imagine the scene of police busting into a newspaper office — and a private home — confiscating computers and cell phones. It is a threat to the First Amendment that can’t be overstated.
