Local Opinion

The vintage train car was packed, so my friend and I had to sit facing a 20s-something man and his female companion as we headed back to Connersville from a tourist trip to Metamora, the historic canal town in southeastern Indiana.

When campaign finance deadlines hit, journalists dig into the reports for the key numbers: who raised the most and how much do they have left in their coffers? But there are tons of smaller interesting details to be found as well.

Child sexual abuse appears to be increasing in our area, or it could be there is greater awareness of this traumatic problem and therefore more cases are being reported.

Todd Rokita sure is a piece of work.

There are many conversations taking place about recent rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States and how those decisions impact the lives of millions of people. But in a surprising vote not predicted by many legal experts, the nation’s highest court ruled in favor of Medicaid recipients in a case involving Indiana’s own Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County (HHC).

From: Sarah Nevins

The Robert D. Garton Veterans Plaza sort of hides in plain sight in downtown Columbus.

Pregnancy can be a dangerous condition in America, especially in Indiana. According to the Commonwealth Fund, the United States has the highest maternal-mortality rate among all the high-income countries despite spending two to four times more on health care. In fact, the U.S. maternal-mortality rate is three times higher than those of other wealthy countries. The rate has progressively increased since 2000, spiking in recent years, partly due to the COVID crisis resulting in reduced health-care access.

I spent my professional career in higher education administration, specifically in the enrollment and finance areas. What that meant was summer was my busiest time with students to enroll, orient and bill, and then there was the fiscal year closing accounting work. Other than a few days over the course of the summer when I got by without wearing a tie, summer was a salt mine.

Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston owes the people of House District 69 some answers about their elected representative, who is on probation and will be during the 2024 session of the Indiana General Assembly.