Futures File: Soy surges as crop size shrinks
Wednesday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture report sent soybeans sailing higher as estimates of this year’s stockpile of beans came in under expectations.
Month: October 2020
3 people killed in Massachusetts Avenue shooting are identified
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 5400 block of Massachusetts Avenue shortly after 2:30 a.m.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Muting microphones, isolating candidates could improve debate
Wow! What a chaotic performance on the Tuesday night debate stage. Our friends around the world must be wondering how we could have possibly elected such a person to the office of president.
COUNTERPOINT: Only adult talking policies carries Dems’ standard
It took all of 10 seconds for the first of three presidential debates between Joe Biden and President Trump to devolve into yet another Trump temper tantrum.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Threat of dictatorship means Republicans should reject Trump
The presidential election is clearly Trump vs. democracy. While American democracy is far from perfect, the alternative is a Trump dictatorship.
POINT: As bad as it can get
Well, at least it wasn’t boring, because we needed a little more rancor and yelling to round out 2020. Perhaps a cable news segment of Boomers interrupting one another to the extent that no clear message can be heard, extended…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Four factors that lead to coronavirus spread
The United States recently passed the grim benchmarks of 200,000 COVID deaths and 7,000,000 cases — both of which are the highest figures in the world by significant margins, although if current trends continue, India will pass the U.S. in…
GUEST COMMENTARY: A U.S. debt crisis: From denial to reality
On Sept. 21, the Congressional Budget Office released a long-term outlook on government debt. In a dire warning the CBO projects that in 2050 the debt will equal 195 percent of GDP.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Dancing to billionaires’ tune puts U.S. in debt, uncooperative mood
Earth to Sen. Braun: To cooperate does not mean to capitulate. You and your ilk in the Senate should stop dancing to Trump’s music long enough to listen to what the American people need. Stop telling us that what we…
WALTER WILLIAMS: Supreme Court and rules of the game
The United States Constitution’s Article 2, Sec. 2, cl. 2, provides that the president of the United States “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges…