Local Opinion

From: Nancy Ray

After a harrowing escape from their home nation last summer, some 7,200 Afghan allies of American forces passed through Camp Atterbury on their way to new homes in the United States.

From: Mark Duwe

This month I read “The Splendid and the Vile,” a recent book about the lives of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his family during “the blitz” — the ceaseless bombing of English civilians by Germany’s air corps during World War II.

Three recent Republic stories about local individuals’ charitable efforts are inspiring and worth celebrating.

I’ve written it before, so to my loyal following, I apologize for how familiar this mantra of mine may sound. However, given the recent passage in the Indiana House of what certainly would be a popular $1 billion tax cut, I felt the time was appropriate to dust this discussion off and move it back to the top of Hoosiers’ collective inbox.

Can Indiana’s COVID data be trusted? Most definitely.

Angry about COVID vaccine mandates, most of the Republican supermajority in the Indiana House passed a mandate of their own: They’ve advanced a bill that tells employers they cannot require employees to get COVID vaccines.

A criminal whose guilt is obvious gets off on a technicality, and the great debate begins. You’ve undoubtedly heard it, in real life on the news or in detective fiction in print or on the screen.

Ever since the beginning of the pandemic, there’s been a disturbing caveat to the casualty reports. Many of the dead, the reports say, had “comorbidities” — other conditions that left them especially vulnerable to the virus.