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  • 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.”

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Strategies Against Hacking

    Guarding against human intruders is fairly easy. But too often, Internet intruders are invited in. We need strategies to prevent Internet intruders from gaining access to computer in­ formation.

  • Suicide Is From Evil Spirit

    While browsing the Times-Union letters section, I ran across a letter about suicide and felt the need to comment.

  • The Immigration Problem

    ICE and the IRS are similar in many ways. They are both hated and were established by Congress to enforce the law.

  • Adding States To The Union

    Readers of the Times-Union may have heard about the Cal 3 initiative where voters in California will decide this coming November on whether to divide the state of California into three different states of Northern California, Southern California and a coastal California from Monterey County to Los Angeles County.

  • Help Find Missing Blind Dog

    We live near the county line east on Old Road 30. On Saturday our 10-year-old black with white border collie  disappeared or was taken.

  • Trails Liability Law A Problem

    The new Indiana Trails Liability Law only protects landowners from liability when people access the trail from their property, not when people access their property from the trail, and in most areas, that's what the big problem is: people getting off  the trail.

  • Constitution, Not Agenda

    The president and Senate need to select a Supreme Court justice that makes their decisions based on what the Constitution says, not their desire to push an agenda.

  • U.S. Can’t Save The World

    For years there has been a great deal of conversation about the border between the United States and Mexico, and the need to “secure” said border.

    Many nations across the world have had heavy security at their borders; some of them (like Russia, China and the former Eastern Bloc nations) used armed guards to try keeping their own people/citizens from escaping to the freedom of the Western world.

  • Truck Driver Out Of Line

    As I was coming out of Dollar General in Leesburg, I was in my turning lane waiting on a truck slowly coming, only to find out he was turning in but with no turn signal. Just like any safe driver, I waited on truck to finally pull in.

  • Celebs Have Gone Too Far

    I think it is time to lower the boom on these celebrities who make outrageous statements about Trump and his family. For Peter Fonda to say that he hopes Trump’s son would be kidnapped is simply criminal.

  • Officers Doing Their Job

    This letter is about the letter to you about “Police Pursuits Should Stop.”

    First of all, when you are driving on the road and you hear sirens and see flashing lights, you are to pull off to the side and stop.

  • Plenty Of Noise On Winona

    I live a little less than a half mile from peaceful, tranquil Winona Lake. I have to listen to  V-8 power boats with no mufflers and screaming jet skis all day and illegal fire works most of the night, often as late as 1:30 a.m.

  • Crazycrats Ruining America

    Democrats are often like hungry grizzly bears. If you treat them nice, they'll still eat you alive.

  • Illegal? Become A Citizen

    With all the news media reporting about these latest issues with the illegals, I wanted to put my two cents in on this subject.

  • Police Pursuits Should Stop

    Am I the only one that believes that our law enforcement should stop high-speed pursuits?

  • Reject The AMA

    As a physician with over 30 years of post-graduate practice experience, I have had the opportunity to observe, and be a member of, the American Medical Association over a prolonged period of time.

  • Suicide Not Clear-Cut Issue

    Everybody has an opinion on suicide. Suicide is not a black-and-white issue, but gray.

    I would like to see researchers study brains to figure out why some people commit suicide and others don’t.

  • Not The America We Know

    Red alert! The democracy of the United States of America is at a dangerous level of risk.

    The latest new reports with sound bytes of some of the 2,000 or more children crossing our border who are flowing in for asylum.

  • Whose Lies Are Believed?

    To Democrats, often the truth is skillfully crafted lies that are used against those who don't believe them. The recent I.G. document that made many people look bad has been considered no big deal.

  • Solution To Assault Rifles

    Thank you for your article in the weekender paper dated Feb. 24 and 25. Since you are not sure gun laws are the answer to mass shootings like Parkland and Las Vegas, the following is a simple and logical solution.

  • Presidential Term Limits

    In order to further strengthen our democratic constitutional republic, enhanced term limits and other reform measures should be enacted for all three branches of the federal government.

  • U.S.: Stop Playing The Sap

    We are approaching the midterm election cycle, and a lot of people are seeking to stir up an “anti-Trump” faction within the American voting public.

  • Sewer System No Choice

    I read with a great deal of interest the article on the front page of Wednesday's paper dealing with the sewer system going in around Tippecanoe and Chapman lakes.

  • Suicide Isn’t The Answer

    Recent celebrity suicides were unexpected. There are var­ious reasons why people take their lives.

  • Suicide Isn’t The Answer

    Recent celebrity suicides were unexpected. There are var­ious reasons why people take their lives.

  • Racing Comment

    I have been watching, waiting and listening to all the noise about the fairground races and feel like chiming in before they and the fairgrounds are gone forever.

  • Some Violence Justified

    Half a century ago, Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin in California. He most likely would have become president that fall and would have ended our involvement in the Vietnam War by early 1969.

  • Outreach Seeks Donations

    Our church, Healing House Church of God, is asking for donations and any help for our community outreach to be held Aug. 4 at Rarick Park, South Washington Street.

  • Evil Behind Mass Shootings

    Like many people across the nation, I’m sick of all of these mass shootings in public places, especially in schools.

    Even more, I’m fed up with the many media commentators, cops and others who repeatedly spout off after these incidents; most often their opinions are “These incidents of violence are results of a ‘mental  health issue.’”

    Bull!

  • Who Defends Black Lives?

    The NFL has lost viewers and doesn't want players taking a knee to show the opposition for the deaths of black lives at the hands of police. I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about the deaths. Any wrongful death is a travesty. But which political party cares more about black lives?

  • Where Were The Flags?

    Monday, May 28, was Memorial Day. Kosciusko County had a number of opportunities to observe this national day. One was held at the Oakwood Cemetery in Warsaw.

  • Fair Board And Noise

    When I was a young boy my dad would come home from work and first thing that was said was "turn that noise down!”

  • Revised First Amendment

    The following is part of my series of letters on updating and further strengthening the Bill of Rights in order to better protect such rights.

  • Whitko Decision

    On Monday, the Whitko Community School Board made a very foolish and very unwise decision to build an addition at the Larwill campus, under the guise of tech/career school.

  • Racing Noise

    I have read most if not all of the letters to the editor concerning the  “noise” caused when there are motorized events scheduled at the fairgrounds.

  • Bedeviled By Boogeyman

    Many Democrats believe that just because there's no proof something exists doesn't mean it doesn't exist. To them,  Presi­dent Trump is the Boogeyman. Oh no! I just gave Hillary another person to blame for her loss in 2016.

  • Issues With Racing

    I have lived in Warsaw since 1978. Like hundreds of others, I moved my family into the city in 1998 after the fair board and the Winona Lake area property owners documented a formal agreement to prohibit motorized racing except under certain delineated conditions.

  • Nisly Dedicated

    Curt Nisly deserves congratulations for winning the primary earlier this month. However, the overwhelming support he received was not surprising as he has been and remains dedicated to the district he continues to serve.

  • Not Living In The Past

    Did the fair board find a time machine somewhere, because racing is back.

  • Bullying, Forgiveness

    There was an article in the Chicago Tribune today about bullying. What made this article so compelling was that it took place in the 1950s and it was about forgiveness.

  • Remember Heroes

    The month of May reminds me of sunshine; of beautiful spring flowers of all shapes and sizes, each with its own special sweet scented fragrance; of a beautifully cultivated neighborhood of home gardens sprouting with an assortment of vegetables, ornamental shrubs and trees; and of that special time of year for flag waving and a time for families to gather together to pay tribute to those who willingly paid the ultimate sacrifice for their families, friends and country.

  • Big Brother And Leesburg

    Lately Leesburg small business Keg Tavern has been attacked by town board members Tom Moore and Doug Jones. The sheriff’s department is Leesburg’s only police, other than Moore and Jones wannabes.

  • Media, Dems Putin’s Patsies

    Democrats and especially the media are doing what Putin wants them to do. Putin wanted some of our uranium supply and both Hillary and Obama allowed it to happen

  • Choose Ciriello

    When I was a fifth-grade teacher, I was fortunate to have Tony Ciriello as a DARE officer in my classroom for several years. He was one of the best.

  • Nisly Opposed Tax Hike

    Tax season officially ended two weeks ago, but paying them hasn’t stopped. Property taxes, sales taxes, use taxes, etc., they’re everywhere. It seems there isn’t a tax politicians haven’t considered and subsequently hiked.