GUEST COMMENTARY: Medicaid’s willful waste brings woeful want
Every year, Medicaid loses more money to waste and fraud than the GDP of a small country.
Month: January 2021
BRIAN HOWEY: GOP Divide: Trump chaos v. Pence constitutionalists
INDIANAPOLIS – The fissure snaking through the Republican Party comes down to what appears to be Donald Trump’s chaos wing, and Mike Pence’s constitutional GOP. And in Pence’s hometown of Columbus, Indiana, the party loyalty appears to be divided.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Human resilience offers hope for the post-COVID future
Are we resilient or emotionally fragile? Our society wrestles endlessly with this question. A new government has assumed power and our economic future will be determined by whether the Biden administration and investors view us as psychologically damag…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Vaccination protocol
We remember reading in the Scripture that the Father has his sun rise on the just and the unjust. The light and warmth emanate immediately and without hesitation over the whole of Creation. This is the model that we need…
GUEST COMMENTARY: Ethics in government: Work in progress
The pandemic has forced all of us to limit or at least modify our activities. The Shared Ethics Advisory Commission has been similarly impacted.
SCOTT SHELLADY: Crazy reigns, election was just the beginning
I am not sure there has been a crazier time in my life. The election was just the beginning. The markets have now taken over as the new crazy family on the street. Hear me out.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Hank Aaron’s unlikely link to a Hall of Famer
When Hank Aaron died suddenly on Jan. 22, he took with him the last chance to tell one of the meatiest intergenerational of racial baseball stories.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Joe Biden broke a barrier that stood for centuries
On Jan. 20, 2021 President Joe Biden became the 46th president after repeatedly tearing up during his campaign. No previous presidential candidate would have been elected if they had shown even modest signs of such “female behavior,” actions that the……
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Too many people look out for No. 1
Pandemics and politics may or may not make strange bedfellows, but if my tuning into more cable TV news time than I care to admit is any indication, the unprecedented finger-pointing, fact-checking, divisiveness, pettiness and downright craziness we ha…
‘Your mama’s here’: Evansville teen’s death after long battle with COVID shocks his family
Isaiah Mays was on the verge of getting his diploma when he contracted COVID-19 in December. He died Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 19.