Oct 18, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener If there are not naturally occurring weather crisis, wildfires, hurricane damage assistance, nuclear finger pointing, computer hacking then there are conjured up crisis du jour since January 20. Now there are a bunch of Washington types, led by the...
Oct 11, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Now that I am a member of the gray hair and Medicare Club, I have been around long enough to compile some perplexing and confounding questions on the world in which we live. I’m not talking about ‘What’s the meaning of life?’ or ‘Does the Universe have...
Oct 4, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Vocabulary was a sub-subject of high school English that Mrs. Lewis always stressed. There was a very thick dictionary in her room that we were encouraged to use. Today, there is online Wikopedia for word definitions since we all seem to be wired to...
Sep 27, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Fall officially began across Hoosier land last Thursday with the Autumnal Equinox but the thermometer remained near 90°. While the calendar says it is officially fall, the wilderness has been giving signs of the changing seasons for several weeks. Some...
Sep 13, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Harvey hammered Houston now as of this writing Irma is trying to blow Florida away. Who knows as we go down the alphabet what additional national disasters may befall us. Old Testament believers might say that God is smiting this nation. But...
Sep 6, 2017 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The opinion piece below this column was penned by a well-respected Ball State University economist. He proposes that to keep small schools in their community in Indiana, communities need to merge school corporations, boards and administration. So let’s...