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NASH: Holiday greetings from the Nash family
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GESENHUES: Where did extra hour go?
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ROKITA: Rebutting the redistricting naysayers
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CLERE: Grant will boost entire community
I got behind Georgetown’s project because I saw it as a good way to leverage stimulus money for maximum benefit to my entire district, which includes most of Floyd County and a small part of Clark County.
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CURRAN: Responding to slightly insane letter writer
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DODD: The Dodds take Manhattan
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CUMMINS: How to keep the family in their seats
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STANCZYKIEWICZ: Health insurance and Indiana children
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STAWAR: Man's worst friend
I recently read with admiration about the local animal shelters and all the wonderful volunteers who work there. The animals are all so appealing. I wish I could feel as positive about our own dog, but I just finished burying the wire for the containment system for the fourth time.
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JOHNSON: Self-love run riot
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HOWEY: Obama weighs the Afghan abyss
INDIANAPOLIS — President Obama took a midnight trip to Dover Air Force Base and solemnly watched, then saluted, as the flag-draped coffin of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute was marched off the C-17. Griffin was one of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan earlier in the week.
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NASH: Will justice ever be served in Camm case?
Nine years ago last month an unimaginable tragedy struck a family in Georgetown.
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STAWAR: Candy, costumes and self-control
Tomorrow is officially Halloween, the holiday when Americans typically buy the most candy. Like a lot of kids, a major part of much of my childhood was essentially a quest to acquire as much candy as I could get my hands on, and Halloween was the Holy Grail.
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HAMILTON: It’s time to govern the flow of political
There was a time when I believed that the best way to curtail the impact of money flowing into our political system was to monitor it. Make sure that campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures were reported quickly and accurately, I reasoned, and journalists and the American public could determine for themselves what they could tolerate.
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BAYLOR: Someone’s in the kitchen with Chloe
A common house fly of the species Musca domestica wearily hugged the wall by the cracked window next to Councilman Cappuccino’s cluttered kitchen sink. Winter was coming, and the fly was feeling profoundly sluggish.
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CLERE: Not all my important meetings are in Indianapolis
The General Assembly is scheduled to convene Jan. 5. In the meantime, I’m around here most of the time.
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HARBESON: The drive to impede
Driver’s education was the only class I took in high school that I can remember being enthused about. Finally, the chance to take a class that had an immediate benefit.
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McDONALD: Leadership in flight
Last week I traveled to upstate New York on business. With no nonstops to Albany from Louisville, I had to take a flight to Washington, D.C., with a connection to Albany.
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GESENHUES: Tales from a tattler
My daughter is a tattletale. We knew this going into kindergarten, but were unaware of her full capacity to tattle. Like her mom, if she enjoys something, she doesn’t do it halfway; she’s a really, really good tattletale.
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CURRAN: Farewell to the mess!
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DODD: Spreading the words of 2009
Miriam-Webster has added some new words/phrases for 2009 to include the following;
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LOCKHART: Investigation of Camm was flawed from beginning
In the nine years that our family has fought the conviction of my nephew David Camm, we’ve heard a lot of questions and a lot of criticism.
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JOHNSON: Power corrupts, manipulation stinks
Power is the ability to act or to produce an effect; it is also defined as possessing control, authority, or influence over others. Its cousin, manipulation, is the ability to control or play upon others by artful, unfair, or sneaky means to one’s own advantage or to serve one’s own purpose.
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CUMMINS: When Google replaced the family meal
One hundred years ago the small country newspaper we read to keep informed printed this editorial comment: “The Wright brothers continue to put it over on the American people with their flying machine. This aeroplane business is getting to be a practical joke.”
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EDITORIAL: Woman of the Year award carries history
From 1986 through 1995, The Evening News sponsored a Clark County Woman of the Year Award.
This was a good thing and is a tradition we will start again, in partnership with Kye’s, at 6 p.m. Friday at Kye’s II in Jeffersonville.
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HOWEY: FSSA, IBM: Gov. Mitch Daniels’ darkest hour
INDIANAPOLIS — Every presidential and gubernatorial administration finds itself in one of those dark moments when the world crowds in, the policy and political prospects dim and enemies seem to abound.
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STAWAR: Mascot Madness
Our identities easily get wrapped up in things like the autos we drive, our hometowns, and the schools we attend. Over time we develop intense, even irrational, loyalties to the various symbols of these ego extensions. As the fall football season gears up, nowhere is this seen more clearly than the attachment to mascots for schools and athletic teams.
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NASH: Trying to avoid being the biggest loser
The leaves are beginning to change and the days are getting cooler. The hours of daylight are getting shorter, so naturally the time spent outside is starting to dwindle. In the next few weeks getting on my bike and just going for a ride will be a thing of the past. The chilled wind makes it hard to maneuver when the tears form around your eyes and kind of freeze there on your face. As winter quickly approaches, it is important to find alternatives to exercise so you do not pack on that winter flab.
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BAYLOR: Corner of Mulholland Drive and Pearl Street
When last we looked with appropriately ironic detachment upon the fictional antics of Councilman Cappuccino and his faithful sidekick, Li’l Stevie, they had been joined on a nocturnal downtown street corner by CM Ceesaw, and were making barbecued bologna hash out of Robert’s Rules of Order as is their twice-monthly custom.
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HARBESON: It’s update time on a couple of issues
The Jeffersonville City Council still doesn’t get it. They still pretend that a law banning known sex offenders from parks will protect your kids.
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GESENHUES: Warning: Kids in the limelight may be soured
The Gap has a sign in their window that reads, “Your Kid Could Be Our Next Star.” “Ugh,” I thought when I saw it on my way in to shop for jeans. Is that even a selling point?
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TRIBUNE CHEERS & JEERS: Oct. 21, 2009
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McDONALD: The best teachers show a lot of heart
I am primarily a teacher. It was what I trained to do and is where my heart lies. While I have been involved in business for many years and am involved in business endeavors and board work, I still consider myself a teacher.
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MARCUS: Today’s data tell yesterday's story
Most economists are of the opinion that we have seen the bottom of the recession and are in recovery mode. However, the evidence is scarce to support that position.
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CLERE: Legislation can start with you
It is difficult to recommend any particular major. Indiana is fortunate to have citizen legislators who come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including — among those legislators who are college educated — many different majors.
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Indiana revenue forecast: 'Close enough for government work'
Yes, we feel like ticket holders on the Titanic, assured that the deck chairs will be kept properly aligned no matter what. It is why we stand a pathetic 49th in the category, “Growth Prospects,” in this year’s Forbes ranking.
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CURRAN: Why don’t you just ask?
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CUMMINS: Who’s going to protest the protesters?
Since there have been tea-party groups, healthcare crazies and homosexuals march on Washington, I’m organizing a large group of irate citizens to do the same. My group will be known as AAPP — Americans Against P-brain Politicians. We’ll dress in clown suits and carry blank placards, which signifies nothing. Not counting the automotive and bank bailouts, that’s what we’ve been getting from the government lately.
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DODD: Picture this, Clark County
I took a trip by time traveling last week and thought I would share some of my local Clark County travel photos from 20 years in the future.
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MOD MOM: Liar, liar, the dog’s on fire
My adorable, doe-eyed daughter — the same sweat pea that greets me every morning with, “Good morning mommy! I missed you!” and every night stretches her arms wide open and says, “I love you THIS much” — has recently picked up a new, less charming habit.
Lying.
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JOHNSON: Contempt for the law
To have contempt means to look down on, or have little regard for; to belittle, minimize, dehumanize or hate. Contempt for the law is another of those criminal attitudes commonly shared by those who are prone to break the law.
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HUTSELL: A night we all knew was coming
NEW WASHINGTON — The surprise to some is that it just happened officially on Saturday night.
Jim Matthews may have made a name for himself because of the things that happened on the basketball court on Saturday nights in New Washington.
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VOLLEYBALL: No. 3 Floyd ends regular season with East Invite title
The Floyd Central volleyball team closed out the regular season on a high note on Saturday, winning the Columbus East Invitational.
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HOWEY: The GOP’s health political calculation
“It’s all been about politics.” The day after she became the only Republican in Congress to vote for a health care reform bill, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine made that comment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
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EVENING NEWS CHEERS & JEERS: Oct. 17, 2009
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STAWAR: Parading around
I have to admit that I am not a parade person. Parades tend to have a lot of things that I usually try to avoid — such as noise, crowds, traffic jams and Porta Potties.
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NASH: Patiently dealing with impatience
I should have seen the sign earlier last spring when my girlfriend (I will call her Amy) planted a Topsy Turvy, the upside down tomato plant. After only a few days, she became upset and disenchanted that there were no fresh tomatoes to harvest. I should have known then, maybe Amy wasn’t the most patient of people.
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BAYLOR: A New Albanist’s dictionary
Building vocabulary is a vital step toward mastering any language. As one’s vocabulary grows, his or her reading, writing, speaking and listening skills are enhanced, and there are direct correlations between these improvements and greater academic attainment and social confidence.
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HARBESON: You should stop counting on government
A perplexing pattern popped out at me recently as I analyzed some recent news reports which really has me worried about the government’s ability to count.
