Aug 10, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Indiana has been ranked No. 1 for infrastructure in CNBC’s 2022 Top States for Business annual rankings. This marks the sixth consecutive year Indiana has been ranked in the top five, including No. 1 rankings in 2016 and 2019, according to a news...
Jul 6, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (Since we enjoyed some outdoor grilling… and maybe an adult beverage or two… over the July 4 weekend, here is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) Back in the 1960’s, pop-rock singer Melanie charted a Top 10 song “I’ve Got A Brand New...
Jun 29, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener With the 4th of July approaching on Monday, the personal-finance website WalletHub released a report on 2022’s Most Patriotic States in America. Flag Day and Crothersville’s Red, White & Blue Festival just recently past, readers are not going...
Jun 1, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Many of we children of the 1950’s & 60’s started out to school writing with a fat pencil. I guess it was supposed to fit unskilled, chubby hands better. It’s how we learned our ABC’s, how to write and to show we knew how to read and write would...
May 25, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The late Corean Lewis, my high school English teacher, was the classic teacher in my concept of education. She had a thorough knowledge of English and literature and was able to convey her knowledge so that teenagers could understand. And she was a...
May 4, 2022 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Today nearly every state has laws enacted by their legislatures on what teachers can and cannot teach. This is nothing new. A much covered trial (and heretofore taught in school history classes) took place in 1925 on the same cultural matter. Tennessee...
