Congressman Banks Honors Dobbins; Pucket Encourages Others To Serve HONORING DOBBINS – Third District Congressman Jim Banks spoke on the House floor Tuesday to honor the life of Warsaw Police …

April Fools Day has a little more significance this year. The United States Census Bureau wants to know exactly where you reside on April 1, 2020. This is no joke. Every 10 years, determining the …

Polston Chooses Not To Run; Dillinger Event This Spring NOT THIS TIME – One of the people who was considering a run for the District 18 state representative position was Combined Community …

As I sit to write my January article, I am again pondering the legacy of a great man who exited this life too soon. In a similar story line to the loss of Coach Hooker at Rochester last year, Coach …

Editor, Times-Union: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make people in our image, to be like ourselves.” So God …

Editor, Times-Union: As I wrote this letter, it is early on the 20th of December. On Nov. 16, I had to call for an ambulance to come help my wife. She is physically very heavy and diabetic. She was …

Editor, Times-Union: We have begun a new year which means that the Indiana General Assembly will be beginning a new session. Over the next several weeks, lawmakers will decide on what new laws will …

Editor, Times-Union: At the recent North Manchester school board meeting, concerned parents, grandparents and citizens were told by the psychiatric experts that “sex” is NOT …

This is a difficult column to write. That’s because it will be the last one I write as a full-time employee of the Times-Union. I have accepted a position as editor of RVBusiness magazine in …

The original Potpourri column – often imitated – was founded by longtime Kosciusko County Republican leader Jean Northenor and Times-Union publisher Reub Williams decades ago. Williams …

2020 is here! As an optometrist, 20/20 has been a part of my professional vocabulary since I began practicing in 1979.   20/20 is a term that signifies clear and precise vision. The City of …

It makes me sad to say this, because I am part of it, but today’s “media” have completely abdicated their role as truth-telling government watchdogs. They are narrative-driving …

Being a center right kind of guy politically, I’m pretty conservative with regard to fiscal matters. Given the current state of affairs with the federal budget, I’m wondering where the …

A couple of weeks ago, I gave Democrats some advice. They’re not taking it. The basic premise was that most people probably care more about issues that affect their daily lives than about …

Here’s something I don’t understand about Democrats today. They desperately want to occupy the White House in January 2021, yet they appear to be overtly and purposely ruining their …

Seems to me the nation is as divided as ever right now over the impeachment stuff. Well, to be fair, that’s probably an overstatement. We were most assuredly more divided in April of 1861. But …

OK, so I want to be clear about this. What President Donald Trump did with regard to the president of the Ukraine was wrong. Using your status as president to ask a foreign leader to investigate a …

The city of Warsaw is currently trying to establish two residential tax increment financing (TIF) districts. Residential TIF district legislation was just authorized this year by the Indiana …

The Foreign Agents Registration Act was enacted in 1938. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, “FARA is a disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals …

It was suggested that I read an article by Nir Eyal in the Atlantic about technology. The author likened the debate over the effects of technology on society to “Reefer Madness” under the …

So there was this story last week about three sixth-grade white boys at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia. A 12-year-old black girl with dreadlocks was about to go down a slide during recess when …

Last month, approximately 800 community members gathered at the Lincoln School gymnasium for a public input session regarding proposed safety solution options for U.S. 30. The long-term solution is a …

This is not a column in defense of President Donald Trump. He called up the Ukrainian president and asked him to do him a favor by investigating his political adversary, Joe Biden, and Biden’s …

Former Texas Democrat Congressman Beto O’Rourke wants to be president of the United States. I’m not a fan. For one thing, my inbox gets spammed by his campaign asking for donations. …

Last week, I wrote about gun laws and that many of them, no matter how well-intentioned, do little or no good. Enter Walmart. They made a big splash this week when they announced they would no longer …