http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:03:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_325180339.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_325180339.html Legislation further enhancing ethics in state government will be among proposals authored and considered by state senators during the upcoming 2010 Indiana General Assembly session. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_318231052.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_318231052.html I know it is tempting to portray the Indiana General Assembly as having a deaf ear toward ethical behavior, but I find such opinions do not match the commitment that the men and women in the Indiana House and Senate have toward meeting the public’s trust. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_311230316.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_311230316.html A wise man once warned, “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.” — George Washington, Founding Father, USA Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:36:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_309153703.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_309153703.html The Indianapolis Colts could reach the goal of winning all their football games if it were not for the annoying interference of referees, rules and regulations, unnecessary markers and arbitrary boundaries, those unfair and confounding limits on the number of players the Colts may put on the field at any given time, etc.In recent columns for the Tribune-Star, Arthur Foulkes, (Oct. 16), and Craig Ladwig, (Oct. 11), again make their case for free-market-and-nothing-but-free-market capitalism. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_307162537.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_307162537.html We’ve got another big chance to end Patriot Act abuses — but we have to act fast. The Senate Judiciary Committee had the opportunity to pass legislation to rein in a bill that has become a symbol of out-of-control government invasions of your privacy. They failed — approving a bill that does little to curtail the sweeping powers embedded in the Patriot Act. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:16:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_304131703.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_304131703.html Despite what they may have been told, current teachers who study Indiana’s proposed rules for educator preparation and licensing (REPA) will be very happy with the recommendations. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:13:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_304131400.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_304131400.html This letter is in response to a letter you published as a “Flashpoint” piece in the Oct. 18 Tribune-Star. Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:21:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_303172132.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_303172132.html What is the actual “unfortunate truth?” It is the relentless barrage of lies and twisted, self-serving, short-sighted propaganda we are subjected to by the energy sector, the private health insurance sector and the conservative talking-head sector. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_301191046.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_301191046.html In my nine plus years as Commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, I often have spoken about one of the primary missions of academic-based athletics being to develop “good Americans rather than All-Americans.” Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_299002031.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_299002031.html Our country is facing a crisis in education and in Indiana we are changing the way we think about what higher learning means to our future. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:49:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_297154934.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_297154934.html League of Women Voters of the United States has taken the unusual action of buying media ads in a few key states. Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:48:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_297154824.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_297154824.html “We are no longer a Christian nation.” — Barack Obama. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:25:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_289212620.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_289212620.html I have always been known to be very opinionated … but also very well read and knowledgeable. Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_282164131.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_282164131.html State government and state university officials must “concentrate” on providing world-class institutions while making certain that campuses are affordable for in-state students and taxpaying parents. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:19:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_276181929.html http://www.clintonherald.com/tribstar/flashpoint/local_story_276181929.html Every 26 seconds, another American student drops out of high school; that’s 1.2 million adolescents every year.