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Gov. Bowen’s two terms led to Washington

Otis Bowen, who became the first physician to lead the federal government’s largest department, Health and Human Services, lived a long and rich life that included service as the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and two terms as one of the state’s most popular governors. Bowen was born in 1918 near Rochester, where […]

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HOLT: Freight railroads grow economy

Indiana is home to one of the largest rail infrastructures in the nation. Not only do freight railroads deliver the things we depend on each day, but they are also an economic development engine.

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ROKITA: Feds to blame for ITT collapse

Neither ITT, nor any business, could bear the crushing weight of the decrees issued by unelected activists holed up in some of the federal bureaucracies that have taken over our lives, both corporately and individually.

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KENNEDY: Too many Americans don’t vote ‘correctly’

What constitutes a “correct” vote has nothing to do with voting for an objectively superior candidate; instead, casting a “correct” vote means, for purposes of this research, voting for the candidate whose positions are most closely aligned with those of the voter.

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Police violence: American epidemic, American consent

Another set of black men killed by the police—one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another in Charlotte, North Carolina. Another television cycle in which the pornography of black death, pain and anguish are exploited for visual sensation and ratings gold. And yes, another moment of mistakenly focusing on individual cases and individual motives and individual protests instead […]

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Our presidential predicament this election season

There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the debates may enable voters to decide which is the “less insufferable” candidate to be […]

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