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A Bright Spot Of Winter

A cardinal dines at a Southern Indiana bird feeder. Many homeowners continue to feed birds, not just to attract nature’s show to their back yards, but to also help with the birds’ winter survival due to long term snow cover and sub-freezing weather prevent natural...

Indiana Farmland Assessments Going Up

by: Larry DeBoer             Professor of Ag. Economics at Purdue University At the end of December, Indiana’s Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) calculated the base rate assessment for farmland to be used for taxes in 2015. Predictably, the base rate...

Don’t Blame Me, Life Made Me That Way

by Curt Kovener Many readers of this column may be acquainted with ‘Maxine’ the greeting card and internet character who is plain spoken and cynically pragmatic in her comments. Hmmm… sort of like newspaper people. Such is the genre of life-isms collected for this...