One killed in double shooting on north east side of Indianapolis early Sunday morning
Indianapolis police are investigating after a fatal shooting on the city’s north east side early Saturday morning.
Month: May 2020
Indiana 5th District: Christina Hale enters election week with ‘incredible advantage’
Christina Hale had raised 16 times the amount of money that her fellow Democratic opponents had in the race for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District.
Republicans try to stand out in crowded Indiana 5th District race
In the final weeks, candidates have used controversial statements, loaned themselves money and turned to attacks in order to give themselves a leg up.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Privileged few show they can’t abide crisis discomforts
Americans has proven only one thing — that they are spoiled to momentary gratifications. Absent the pandemic and reckless behavior that persists; transmitting the terrible virus by breaths of destruction while people like me try to dodge these intrusio…
BRIAN HOWEY: Congressional seat rivals generating media blitz
CARMEL — Primary voting will be completed on Tuesday in the congressional seats that opened up with the retirements of Democrat U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky and Republican U.S. Rep. Susan Brooks. They are leaving Indiana’s two urban districts that mirror……
LAURA HOLLIS: Lack of vote-integrity measures disenfranchises voters
The political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be as unpredictable as the virus itself, and as potentially monumental as the financial losses it has caused. Although the November election is still almost five months away, House Speaker Nancy…
GUEST COMMENTARY: How the lockdown looks depends on how you get your bread
My wife and I have found silver linings in the COVID-19 lockdown. We’ve baked bread, ordered gourmet foods online, watched movies, taken walks, shared socially distant drinks with neighbors. I’m a musician and decided that, in case the virus sweeps…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Dems ‘softening up’ the public to accept radical restructuring
In April, my Times letter informed the public of the D.C. Democrats’ plan for using the pandemic “to restructure things to fit our vision” (James Clyburn, S.C.), that is, to prolong fear, anxiety and financial distress through the shutdown in…
GUEST COMMENTARY: We rise or fall together — and we are determined to rise
This is a solemn and challenging time in the life of our nation and world. A remorseless, invisible enemy threatens the elderly and vulnerable among us — and some of the healthiest, too. It challenges our sense of safety, security…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: George Floyd-tied rioting gives voice to those unheard
Why riot, tear up, and destroy stores, cars, banks and property? Because a riot is the language of the unheard. King knew and he was prescient. Former police officer Derek Chauvin asphyxiated, tortured, lynched and homicidally humiliated George Floyd, …