LAW – Opinion
The unraveling of normal right before our eyes
Well sometimes the unexpected twist in a story is just too far fetched to believe. As events stretch the limits of what is possible, our sense of what’s right is dragged away from its stake of beliefs. It can be a good thing. Slavery was an accepted practice way too long because it had Biblical justifications and was a pillar […]
Trusted and reliable: local newspapers still matter
If you are reading this newspaper, you probably appreciate the importance journalism plays in our community. And if you’re reading this, you are fortunate enough to still have a local news source. Many communities don’t and it almost happened here. Crawford County came within a hair’s breadth of joining the growing ranks of communities that have lost their local papers. […]
What’s in a name? Maybe a target on your back
At my first teaching job, there was a refrigerator in the teacher’s lounge. Since I had bus duty before classes and lunchroom supervision at noon and football or basketball or track afterward I had no need for it. I looked in it once and saw a chaos of brown bags, tupperware, and lunch boxes all with lables of some sort […]
There are two groups state shouldn’t turn its back on
Two press conferences held after Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget address last week didn’t receive much news media attention. As the saying goes, coverage follows conflict, and the two pressers were far more subtle and polite in their criticisms of the governor’s plan than those held by Republicans, so they were mostly overlooked. But clear undercurrents were visible during both events, […]
What’s happening to the trees?
Dear Editor, When riding with a friend to Vincennes, we noticed over 130 trees were cut down by Robertson Hills and the Wabash River by the Rt. 33 highway crew. A lot of them were good trees, no rotting seen. Many of them were young trees and several were perfectly good trees and several were perfectly good older trees. Their […]
Alabama ruling will have far reaching consequences
The long view of short sighted decisions – Alabama is 27% Black. Their Supreme Court is 100% White. Since reconstruction the established powers that be have done their best to see to it that things stay that way. Now they’ve made a mistake. They probably don’t see themselves as racist, but prefer to think in other, more righteous terms. White […]