In May, Governor Holcomb’s announced an early end to pandemic unemployment assistance. This decision was a rare policy mistake for an administration that had spent more than a year handling COVID with admirable attention to data and good judgement. The mistake was also unusual in that the pr…

Columnist Primus Mootry looks at the history of voting in the U.S. and why the fight for that right continues today.

Step 1: Show enthusiasm

The note from a California woman seemed earnest enough.

INDIANAPOLIS – The catastrophic events prior to the Sept. 11 foreign terror attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the demise of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania occurred in a time of consequential political instability.

Some problems can’t be anticipated. But some can.

When out of town friends visit, I brag about Kokomo Municipal Stadium. Not only do I brag about its beauty, I also brag about what it replaced. Taking an area that was a relentless flood headache and engineering a sports stadium (that stays dry) in its stead — that was ingenious!

When you hear the word “expert,” what comes to mind?

As you probably heard, Indiana is looking for people. Not just any kind of people, but the right kind of people. Educated, skilled, mobile folks. We may not really know what they want, but maybe we could figure out how to find them.

If you had $100 and were forced to invest it, what types of investments would you consider? Celebrity space programs might be a market ready to explode, or maybe another GameStop will come along. But here’s a wacky thought: let’s pool several billion dollars together and park it in a reserve…

Another school year is about to begin.

Columnist Primus Mootry sees an unknowable future as we face a number of difficult situations.

“Freedom of speech is the air that any thinker breathes; it’s the fuel that ignites the fire of an intellectual’s thoughts.” Raif Badawi dared to write such things in Saudi Arabia. And he exercised his own freedom of speech, asking questions about faith and challenging extremism in that coun…

I so want to be a good Hoosier, an upstanding citizen who will do the right thing.

Earlier this year, Indiana’s General Assembly passed Senate Bill 414, which required universities to survey students about the climate for free speech on campus. Schools must then report these findings to the Commission on Higher Education. Normally I’d be reluctant to weigh in on such a law…

Picture this: a gas-powered vehicle pulling a diesel generator to charge an electric vehicle sitting on the side of the road. That’s like someone who claims they are vegan but secretly eats meat.

Columnist Brian Howey talks baseball and the magic that is the Chicago White Sox this season.

Many technological advances in the world have stumped me over the past couple of decades. In each of the next few weeks, I will revisit some of the columns I wrote in the last 22 years where I shared my frustrations and will update you on how my techy skills have improved — or not.

This week I look back at how I have wrestled with new technology over the past 20 years, and I’ll provide updates on my recent progress.

INDIANAPOLIS — All too often, it’s the blatant hypocrisy that makes politics so entertaining to watch.

It started with a text message containing the trailer of the new documentary, “Summer of Soul” ( … Or, “When the Revolution Could not be Televised”). A couple of days later, a group of friends streamed the entire movie on a projector screen in a neighborhood backyard. The final straw was whe…

What’s the biggest story we can anticipate from the 2020 Census when the final count is released? I’m betting it will be that Marion County alone had 23% of Indiana’s population change between 2010 and 2020. Add in Hamilton County and we’ll have 49% of the state’s 264,000 increase for the decade.

The obnoxious amount of dishes waiting to be cleaned after preparing meals in the Frey household is never ending.

Thank you, Simone Biles, for pulling me out of the funk I’d talked myself into over sports.

As I write, a Franciscan priest I know is in a courtroom in Ohio. Father Fidelis Moscinski was charged with criminal trespass for walking into an abortion facility in Cuyahoga Falls.

For more than a decade, a team of us at Ball State University argued that local economic and population growth was primarily caused by something called “quality of place.” This idea helped motivated the Stellar Communities program, the Regional Cities Initiative and now the READI grants. Thi…

Columnist Primus Mootry urges us to join together and work to keep the American dream alive.

With the first rumbling in the distance, there comes the anxious looks. As the wind picks up and the sunshine becomes night, the eyes widen. When the leaves turn up to meet the first raindrops, a small whimper can be heard. And, when the first flash of lightning and a loud crack fill the air, panic sets in.

We have seen plenty of good and bad news this summer. Summer activities are running full blast: Park Band concerts, the Haynes-Apperson festival, Howard County fireworks, Jackrabbits games — to name a few. But this summer has its share of bad news too. A condominium building collapses in Flo…

Despite an unforeseen learning disruption, Indiana’s Class of 2020 graduated at higher rates than in 2019.

The older I get the less patience I have for politics. Humanity demands that we, as Americans, elect our leaders and do so after we listen, study and vote. I probably am too young to realize when the real breakdown in American politics began. Maybe during Temperance, or the movement to allow women the right to vote, or really honoring the promises allowing the black vote (albeit for men only) after the civil war, but break down it did. We often look at each other as Republicans or Democrats when in actuality we are citizens.