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• Shootings no reason for panic

  When it comes to homicide and attempted homicide, the year 2012 has been a nightmare for our city. I was shocked to read this article in the Kokomo Tribune:

  February 5, 2012

• Karickhoff: Reason behind my ‘right-to-work’ vote

  There is no doubt the “right-to-work” debate has brought mixed emotions, not only to our state but District 30 as well. There were only a handful of House Republicans who did not vote in support of this legislation. Let me explain why I felt it was necessary for me to vote in opposition to right to work.

  February 2, 2012

• Heinig: ‘Right-to-work’ law to arouse continued resistance

  I wouldn’t call Gov. Mitch Daniels a charismatic leader, but he does possess some leadership skills. If he didn’t, he couldn’t have brought us this far along the happy trail to his economic Valhalla.

  February 2, 2012

• Make your kids follow the rules

  In all sorts of ways, we parents, just like our parents, try to establish rules of conduct for our children, so they can do the same for theirs when that time comes.

  January 29, 2012

• Seaweed: Shiver me timbers

  Our nation – and the Western world – has had a ball and chain around its ankle for some time: dependence upon foreign energy. This dependence has taken a bite from our economies as American dollars and European euros migrate toward foreign powers, some of whom despise us. This dependence keeps us vulnerable to the whims of OPEC and the instabilities of the Middle East. In addition, we (or our allies) indirectly help to finance terrorist states.

  January 29, 2012

• Hayden: ‘RTW’ ready to upstage Super Bowl

  It’s not uncommon to see lawmakers in the Statehouse sporting American flag pins on their coat lapels.

  In recent weeks, many have added a second lapel pin carrying the official logo of the 2012 Super Bowl. The game is set to be played Feb. 5 in a stadium just shoutin’ distance from the Statehouse.

  January 24, 2012

• Climbing that ladder upward

  One Internet chatter shared, “My colleague and I were eating our lunch in the cafeteria, when we overheard one of the administrative assistants talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the shore. She drove down in a convertible, but ‘didn’t think she’d get sunburned because the car was moving.’”

  January 22, 2012

• HAYDEN: Ball State study foils GOP claim

  INDIANAPOLIS – Ball State University economist Michael Hicks describes himself as a fiscal conservative and admirer of much of what Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels has done in his seven years in office.

  January 16, 2012 1 Photo

• Some good news

   

  There is never a shortage of bad news. Today’s column is countering the mainstream by presenting the good news that seems to get buried.

  January 15, 2012

• Smith: No defense for capacity limit rule

  In the wake of the Statehouse occupancy limit fiasco, should we credit Mitch Daniels with saving his own party from itself, or credit him with reversing his own bad decision?

  January 10, 2012

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