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  • Golf Courses Are Money Pits

    The golf and bowling demise. Why you see fewer and fewer golf courses year after year is there are fewer golfers than there were 25 to 30 years ago.

  • Wayne Township: Much To Do

    I want to publicly congratulate Wayne Township trustee-elect Jeannie Stackhouse and her soon-to-be sworn in advisory board consisting of Gordon Nash, Josh Spangle and Bruce Woodward.

  • Grateful For Support

    I’d like to send kudos to the voters of Kosciusko and Wayne Township for taking the time to come out and vote last Tuesday.

  • Election

    I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the voters of Kosciusko County who took time from their busy schedules to cast their ballots last Tuesday.

  • God Will Raise Up Others

    Today I was reading one of Robert E. Lee's letters written just after both the battle of Chancellorsville and the accidental shooting of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, in the dark and by his own men.

  • Solution To Border Issue

    After listening to some of the questions being asked by our liberal news media regarding the caravan of people headed toward our southern border, I'm left scratching my head.

  • Waking The Sleeping Bear

    Hibernating bears look peaceful enough to pet. But if you are there when they wake, you might be their first meal. The voters awoke a sleeping bear called the Democrat Party and it's about to go on a rampage against those it considers its enemy.

  • Veterans Day

    Millions of veterans have served in America's wars, including World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

  • God Will Raise Up Others

    Today I was reading one of Robert E. Lee's letters written just after both the battle of Chancellorsville and the accidental shooting of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, in the dark and by his own men.

  • Appreciates Support

    It is with great appreciation that I would like to thank the entire Tippecanoe Valley family for their support in electing me the next District 4, Henry Township, Tippecanoe Valley School Corporation board member.

  • Ann Coulter’s Opinion Inconsistent

    Ann Coulter's column in the Nov. 2 Times-Union is headlined "The True History of Birthright Citizenship." In it, she points out (correctly) that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, in the wake of the Civil War, was intended to provide citizenship status to people who had been forcibly "imported" from Africa by U.S. citizens, including the Founding Fathers.

  • Mercy Rule

    I enjoy Roger Grossman’s columns. The recent Mercy Rule column was thought-provoking, too.

  • Stackhouse Best Candidate

    After weeks of the liberal Democratic candidates taking turns, writing similar letters to the editor with the same spiel, suggesting that the Wayne Township trustee’s office has accumulated too much money in their accounts, or has been operating improperly, I want to offer an alternative and truthful perspective.

  • Benyousky Seeks Support

     If you’re reading this, thank you for being interested and aware of how local government works. Everyday folks need to step up and get involved at the local level.

  • They’re In It For The Money

    I learned a long time ago,when it comes to politics, follow the money.

    It seems Wayne Township has a positive cash flow. Wow.

  • Nisly Has The Right Priorities

    In case anyone has not noticed, it’s election season again, and we will be going to the polls to decide who will be our next representatives.

  • Make Change At Whitko

    Whitko Community School Corporation is currently the highest taxed school district in the area! How can we change that?

  • WaNee Referendum

    To My friends in the WaNee school district, here’s why I’m voting “No” on the referendum. While I’m not opposed to adding safety measures to the school building itself, my concern is with the mental health counselors that are included in the name of “safety."

  • Tippecanoe Twp. Trustee

    I would like to take this opportunity to reach out to the voters of Tippecanoe Township. I genuinely appreciate the support that I received throughout the primary election process.

  • Supports Bob Conley

    I would like to express my gratitude to Commissioner Bob Conley for his recent leadership in creating a more protective wind ordinance for Kosciusko County.

  • Fire Station #3

    Thank goodness, folks, this election season will soon be over and we can all go back to a normal life and start complaining about the trains and rains here in the Warsaw area.

  • Tritch Is The Real Deal

    I was apolitical for the first two-thirds of my life, but got my first political wake-up call in 1997 after I became a 40-year-old college student.

  • Stackhouse: Real Republican

    Two candidates are running for Wayne Township trustee. One of the candidates has made statements that imply she is a hybrid Republican. Then why didn't she run in the Republican primary?

  • Food-A-Thon

    This coming Friday and Saturday Combined Community Services will be holding its Food-A-thon 2018.

    Over the past year Kosciusko County Farm Bureau has donated, along with help from Maple Leaf Farms and Miller Poultry, over 4,000 pounds of Duck and Chicken to CCS.

  • Get Over It, Democrats

    How can Maxine Waters get away with her incessant attacks on President Trump? She’s black and a woman, which puts Trump at a great disadvantage and she knows it. If he retaliates he is a misogynist and a racist. She incites violence.

  • Glad For 2-Party System

    I’m glad we have a two-party system, because I learned about the concerns with the police and sheriff departments, problems with the jail and how the General Assembly changed jail time.

  • Vote To Retain Or Not Retain

    On Tuesday, Nov. 6, voters in Kosciusko County will get to exercise an option on the ballot that should be expanded, that option being the vote to retain in office or not for Indiana Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Slaughter and Robert Altice, District 2 appeals justice.

  • Trustee Questions

    Mr. Alspaugh is correct that I am two years too late in the discussion of the new fire station.

    I should have been involved and instead left it to people that I believed had our best interests at heart.

  • B For Benyousky As Trustee

    Shari Benyousky has campaigned visibly and vigorously across Warsaw to meet and get input from Wayne Township constituents and the greater Warsaw community about their hopes, dreams, needs and visions.

  • No More Democrat Support

    I was born into a staunch Republican family and raised with conservative values I still believe in. Yet in 50 years of voting I have never voted a straight ticket. I always vote for an individual, not a party. That will change this midterm election.

  • Vote For Balanced Budget

    On Nov. 6, voters have the opportunity to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure Indiana continues to live within its means.

  • City Doesn’t Shop Local

    How many times has the public been asked to shop locally, even though the big box stores came to Warsaw and the downtown stores disappeared. Now only banks, lawyers, custom stores and empty storefronts are downtown.

  • Supports Mike Coon

    My name is Shaé Brown, Founder and Director of Kutoa Project Inc., an Indiana-based organization that works directly with youth in Kenya who has been affected by trauma.

  • Say No To All Incumbents

    I want to remind everyone that all the commissioners, especially Bob Conley, were the ones who strapped us with this ungodly wheel tax that we have to pay every year.

  • Township Race

    Biomet CEO Dane Miller once told me, “You never know what’s under a rock until you turn it over.” I agree, and I believe Wayne Township residents have learned and benefited from the discoveries of the Shari Benyousky for Trustee Campaign Team about the finances of the Wayne Township trustee office. What exactly have we learned?

  • Study The Issues, Then Vote

    Powerful social movements and passions are blowing in the wind, and most of them have dangerous implications for the institution of the family, religious liberty, our children and unborn babies, and the country at large.

  • Trustee Challenger Off Base

    To the man who claims I'm a critic of the Wayne Township trustee's Democratic candidate and that I'm misinformed, I must ask if you took the time to do your homework.

  • Trustee Questions Banned

    I attended the recent Wayne Township trustee meeting. It was an eye-opener in that it was announced at the meeting — and I have the paperwork to show — that they did not allow for questions.

  • Tritch Outstanding Candidate

    Fortunately I have been to hear Courtney Tritch speak on many occasions, and impressive she is. This is a person who truly cares about people — one who is all-inclusive, genuine and compassionate. These admirable qualities clearly stand out in her positive television ads.

  • Mike Coon For School Board

    I am writing this letter in support of Mike Coon’s candidacy for the Warsaw Community Schools Board, representing District 1.

  • Stackhouse For Trustee

    It has come to my attention that there is some confusion about township surplus funds.

  • Trustee: People, Not Politics

    Our national and local politics are increasingly divisive. It seems that most Americans, including many of those whom I speak with as I canvass door to door, are disengaged and even tired of politics in general.

  • Trustees Explain Twp. Role

    Townships have been around since the Northwest Territory was divided into townships in 1787! Currently 13 states still have townships and township trustees.

  • Manchester Referendum: Yes

    Twenty-five years ago, Manchester Community Schools decided to renovate Manchester High School. The original plan was to remodel and add space to the academic areas of the building built in 1960.

  • BZA Out Of Line Over Cabin

     I have been a critic of government overreach for a number of years, but I was shocked to see that government overreach can be found in our own county.

  • Trustee Critic Misinformed

    Thank you, Michael Alspaugh, for your obviously sincere and critical letter to the Times-Union editor.

  • Animal Ag Affects The Climate

    Right on the heels of utter devastation wrought by hurricanes Florence and Michael comes an alarming report in the prestigious journal Nature that mitigation of global climate change will require a massive switch to plant-based eating.

  • Help Should Be Temporary

    After reading a few letters here in the Times-Union about the Wayne Township trustee election and speaking with a few local citizens here in my township, I decided to weigh in with my two cents’ worth. 

  • Mob Mentality

    Redefining a word because you want it to mean what you want it to mean doesn't change it. Take mob, for instance.

  • Helping Others A Choice

    When my husband I sat in our living room in the early ’90s discussing the vision for Our Father's House, we never gave much thought to a funeral. My husband David stood behind me and said, “We can do this."

  • Not For Benyouski

    I find myself in a position with the need rather than desire to write this letter. It has been brought to my attention by others that Shari Benyousky has used my picture in her campaign material.

  • Trustee Is Compassionate

    This letter is in response to Laura Deal-Decker's letter.

    I am an investigative clerk in the Wayne Township trustee's office.

  • Benyousky Team Proactive

    Thank you for taking the time to consider the importance of township trustees in a recent opinion column.

  • Windfarms And CAFOs

    Accolades to the people representing the fight for better wind farm ordinances.

  • Trustee’s Parable Of Talents

    In reading "Trustee Candidate Vows To Be Good Steward," it sounds like the current office and the group I'm running with have two different philosophies.

  • The Roads Less Paved

    I’m wondering who the wheel is that turns on South Barbee Drive to warrant new blacktop when most roads anyplace else need it worse with a h*** of a lot more traffic.

  • Stackhouse Has Experience

    The Wayne Township trustee position is open. After many years of service, Sheila Burner is stepping down.

  • Political Parade Of Clowns

    The protesters I saw on TV made me think of proud clowns following a herd of donkeys, stepping in the donkey doo-doo and spreading it around.

  • Democrats Are Like Jezebel

    Jesus received a fairer trial than the grilling Brett Ka­vanaugh received when a woman accused him of attempted rape and couldn't present evidence it even happened.

  • Judgement Is Coming

    The farce taking place over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh makes me sick!

  • Church Discipline Lacking

    I really enjoyed Ken Locke's article "Churches Need Higher Standard in Age of Sexual Abuse" (Sept 6, 2018, page 5A). I'm glad to see church leaders exhorting us to live up to the teachings of Jesus. Sadly, many churches are more interested in coverup than cleanup.

  • Abortions Hurt Work Force

    I’m sure we’ve all noticed several of our food establishments have had to change their hours due to lack of employees.

  • Letter Overlooks Veterans

    I have read Ms. Moore’s endorsement letter several times, and every time this letter doesn’t list anything about our military veterans.

  • Trustee Candidate Vows To Be Good Steward

    As a steward of the taxpayer's money, I am running for Wayne Township trustee.

  • Trump And Kavanaugh

    I would like to make a few comments in regards to the letter to the editor published in the Tuesday newspaper “Trump And Tears.”

  • GOP?Support For Demo

    Thank you to Republican candidate for Township Board Bruce Woodward for endorsing my Township Trustee candidacy on his website this week.

  • Trump And Tears

    In 2005, Donald Trump said to Tim O'Brien, biographer (Trump?Nation: The Art of Being the Donald), . . . the closest he ever came to shedding tears "was after the deaths of his parents” (his father in 1999 and his mother in 2000).

  • Choosing Monthly Veteran

    I don’t want to criticize the veteran of the month because I have always enjoyed reading their stories.

  • So Sorry For Ruining Lives

    Editor, Times-Union:

    To the families of Josh Nisley and Tara Thornburg:

    It has been 3½ long years, and not a day passes I don’t  think about what happened.

  • Wayne Township Trustee

    Mrs. Bruner recently explained that the levy for Wayne township has gone down. That's great! What I didn't hear was why we still are taking in an excess over what is needed.

  • District 18 Deserves Moore

    I strongly support Dee Moore for Indiana House of Representatives District 18 and encourage every voter in District 18 to vote for her in the Nov. 6 general election.

  • Get To Know Trustee’s Role

    That website for finding out about the Wayne Township trustee (and all other local government info) that Sheila Burner told us about in her letter to the editor is excellent.

  • No Tippy/Chapman Sewer

    This letter is concerning the regional sewer installation in the Tippy Lake/Chapman Lake, Oswego area.

  • Don’t Miss Sewer Meeting

    This coming Saturday, Sept. 29, area property owners of Chapman Lake and Tippecanoe Lake have been notified there is a public meeting at the North Webster Community Center.

  • Swamp Monsters Hate Truth

    There is no such thing as common sense when insanity is considered wisdom.

  • Stop The Sewer

    I have just come from a meeting of Stop The Sewer for Tippy and Chapman lakes. The following are things I have learned at this meeting and other meetings I have attended.

  • Township Trustee History

    Where is the Wayne Township’s office? When are the board meetings? What kind of paperwork should I bring to the Trustee to fill out an application for assistance?

  • More To Wayne Twp. Story

    Recent letters to the editor have questioned the amount of money Wayne Township gets by tax levy. Here is the rest of the story that was left out by the Democrats.

  • Running With Benyousky

    I am Laura Deal-Decker and I am part of the Shari Benyousky's Wayne Township Trustee Team.

  • Third Chamber Of Congress

    In my August 10 letter to the editor, I outlined my constitutional amendment for expanding the U.S Senate for the purpose of better representing residents in each current state plus in future states.

  • Nothing Good From Alcohol

    I?spent nine years drinking and I am working on 25 years of sobriety. I also have five friends that are dead because of alcohol.

  • Dems’ Double Standards

    When you have double standards, you have no standards at all. Democrats are infamous for this.

  • Youth Training Lab Needed

    It is hard to go through the day and not see or hear about the importance of technology in our world.

  • System Is Broken For Good

    I wonder if Congress wears steel-toed shoes, because they keep kicking the can down the road.

  • Supports Benyousky

    I was pleased to read Shari Benyousky’s letter to the editor published in the Times-Union on Sept. 4.

  • Confronting The Crazies

    When you associate with insane people, don't be shocked when people think you're insane

  • Fairchild For School Board

    My name is Wendy Fairchild. I’m running for the Warsaw Community School Board, district 1.

  • City Involved In Multiple Projects, Budget Process

    In this column, I typically examine an issue of current interest and provide perspective from the mayor’s office.

    It’s not going to be that simple this month.

  • Township Taxes

    I am a property owner in Wayne Township. After reading Shari Benyousky's letter the other night, I had to wonder, why in the world is the Wayne township Trustee charging me more in taxes than is needed?

  • Speeding Concerns

    I live at Warsaw retirement (yellow apartments behind Walmart). I am a senior that is very concerned about the safety of all my neighbors in this very fine community.

  • Trusting The Twp. Trustee

    After reading “The Newest Outsider” letter to the editor, I have several concerns. I’m wondering how many other Indiana townships are in the prehistoric days without a website.

  • Need Leadership, Not Fear

    We need to be afraid. Millions of people will come across our borders. Many are rapists and murderers. President Trump likes to remind us whenever he can of how dangerous immigrants are.

  • The Newest Outsider

    Usually when I knock and tell the homeowner why I’m on their doorstep, they look puzzled. Not long ago that would have been my response, too.

  • U.S. Must Respond Strategically To China's Financial Aggression

    Our national security rests on an economic foundation, and predatory economic practices by China have undermined that foundation for years — leaving Hoosiers and all Americans dangerously exposed.

  • Overhyping Dread

    If we feared everything the media feared because the things it warned about were to be feared, this nation would be like the Soviet gulag.

  • Nowhere Is Safe Anymore

    For the past couple of weeks, network news reporters have told of the disappearance of a  young woman who went out at night for a run.

  • Who’s In The Picture?

    Why do people submit pictures to the Times-Union and then do not name the participants?

  • Off With Their Heads!

    When is the last time a president was assassinated or beheaded? Maybe it’s time.

  • The Secret Wars

    The most tragic victims of wars are those that didn't realize they were in the middle of wars. We have been inflicted with wars both clear and secret for decades.

  • Hoffert Welcomes Back Staff And Students

    On behalf of Warsaw Community Schools, allow me to be among the first to say welcome to the 2018-2019 school year.

  • Space Force Will Be Needed

    President Trump wants America to have a space force. It took the Air Force decades to go from the Army Air Corps to a separate branch of the military.

  • Socialism Is Coming

    After reading Mr. Badman’s letter to the editor, “Socialism:?A Sad Joke,” I finally understand why women make less money than men. It is called capitalism.

  • New RR Crossings Rough

    Even though the local railroad redid the crossings, they are really real rough.

  • Everyone Blames St. Paul

    Poor St. Paul! Everyone wants to claim Jesus as an advocate for their cause and blame St. Paul for everything they don't like about Christianity.

  • Maxine Waters, IRS Off Base

    Maxine Waters has now committed the ultimate sin. She says God told her what to do and say. Using religion to justify her abominable behavior is beyond evil, and another example of her depravity.

  • Tobacco Free

    Summer is in full swing.

    Whether you enjoy summer by spending time at the beach, enjoying a family picnic, or walking the trails throughout Kosciusko County it is possible for summer to be more enjoyable by being tobacco free.

  • Socialism: A Sad Joke

    Socialism is like a mud pie. People love pie. But would they eat it if it were mud?

  • Where Are Candidates?

    With the size of our school system, I'm truly baffled as to why we see some school board member elections going uncontested.

  • Missing Wheelbarrow

  • Dems Underestimate Putin

  • Real Enemies Of America

  • The Voice Of God

    The sign said that you don't have to be right, but you have to be kind. Righteousness comes only from God. "Be still and know that I am from God." Avoid the argument and the controversy.

  • Trump Looked Like A Puppet

    Hearing the reporter ask who Trump believed during the press conference, he basically asked whether Trump believed Putin or Dan Coats.