Private Equity (PE) firms are circling like vultures around major college athletic programs who – despite revenue exceeding expenses in football or basketball – operate completely in the red after all sports are funded, staffed, and effectively managed.

We have been blessed here in Kosciusko County with a pretty good economy.  Even so, we’ve had a few plant closings and layoffs over the past years. The backbone of our local economy is the orthopedic industry, and for the most part it’s been a rather stable industry. Still, there are always changes: in technology, in the economy, in management and in the business environment. 

Even though it’s summer in Indiana, the IHSAA has a lot of work to do, and the end of June is the deadline to get it done.

Homer Rodeheaver, beginning in 1910, was the music director, choir conductor, and platform manager for the Billy Sunday evangelistic crusades for 20 years.

There is so much going on in June this year in local, national, and global sports.

When our clients retire, they often spend the first few weeks or months feeling like they are on vacation. However, as Americans are living longer, retirement, while the end of your working career, is also the beginning of a new phase of your life.

I realize that Father’s Day is still a couple weeks away, but my dad popped into my head this week.

Mostly unknown to many of today’s Winona Lake residents is the one-time high visibility, huge influence and nationally prominent best-known citizen, Billy Sunday.

I am glad the College Football Playoff (CFP) expanded to the 12-team field, but I hear national sports pundits say the job isn’t finished. I completely agree with them.

We are often asked for our thoughts on “The Market.”  Do you think The Market is too high? Do you think The Market will crash? Where will The Market go from here?  I’m sure all financial professionals are asked similar questions all the time.

Last Thursday, the breaking news alert that NASCAR champion Kyle Busch had died in a non-racing related incident was quite jarring.

The Free Methodist denomination was founded in 1860 in Pekin, New York, with Benjamin T. Roberts as the first general superintendent. In 1868 the first issue of its magazine, now named “Light and Life,” was published and the Free Methodist Publishing House was founded in 1886 at 104-106 Franklin St., Chicago.

Editor, Times-Union: It’s me again coming to you from Parent Drive speedway in beautiful Warsaw Indiana.

Editor, Times-Union: On June 11 of 2024, voters in North Dakota approved a referendum barring residents of North Dakota 80 or older from running or serving in Congress, thereby creating a mandatory retirement age for the North Dakota congressional delegation. The text of that North Dakota amendment is listed below.

Editor, Times-Union: The evolution of the Democrat Party’s identity has morphed drastically over the years. Thought of as “liberals” for decades, it was around the time Barack Obama exploded onto the political scene that they then started calling themselves “Progressives.” Webster dictionary defines progress as “to move forward” or to “reform,” which begs the question, what is it the Democrats want to reform?

Editor, Times-Union: We would like to thank Rural King and Runnings for allowing us to pass out poppies. Also to the public for their donations that go to support our local veterans.

Editor, Times-Union: I am writing today to ask my fellow delegates to reelect Diego Morales for Indiana Secretary of State.

In late 2024 I worked two different events at high school sports venues outside of our reading area, closer to or in Fort Wayne.

Qualified Charitable Distribution (“QCD”) is a financial strategy that can potentially offer significant benefits to holders of Individual Retirement Accounts (“IRAs”) who are over the age of 70.5. Unlike other distributions, which are taxed at ordinary income tax rates, QCD allows for a tax-free distribution from the IRA, provided that the distribution goes directly to a qualified charity.

New things usually don’t work perfectly, but I think baseball has gotten the Automated Ball-Strike system (ABS) just right.

The Brethren Church frequently held its national denominational conferences in Winona Lake.

There is a more profane term easily interchangeable with “jerk” and there is also a cute, little book titled, “No [Jerks].”

In financial planning, we spend a lot of time thinking about, talking about and working toward long-term goals that are integral to attaining the life we want to live. An important aspect that sometimes gets overlooked is protecting your assets - and all that you’ve worked for - from unexpected events.

The IHSAA executive board met last week, and there were two headline-making items on their agenda.

It was the water gushing out of the hillsides that first attracted the three Beyer brothers to the property on the eastern shore of what is now Winona Lake. They purchased a large tract of land containing those springs in 1881, planning to build springhouses over the natural springs and artesian wells to provide natural refrigeration for their egg and dairy business.