Feb 19, 2014 | Curt Comments
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...
Feb 12, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Perhaps Thanksgiving is at the wrong part of the year. After last Tuesday’s town council meeting, we slushed and mushed my way back to my old Howard Street address. Helping Mother up the steps I thought about shoveling the walk to get a leg up on...
Feb 5, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Here is some trivia, facts and bits of information which may be of no use but will make you a more informed human. •It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times. •Gold is...
Jan 29, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Like many of my baby booming colleagues, I have had a cell phone for a time that is now numbered in decades. It started out as the small shoebox size bag phone in my vehicle which I justified in case I had car trouble on the road. Then I upgraded to a...
Jan 22, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener In case you have been snowed in or snowed under by the focus on House Joint Resolution-3 that would make same sex marriage and civil unions banned by the Indiana Constitution, Gov. Mike Pence also wants to give businesses a tax break…a big tax break....
Jan 15, 2014 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The instant gratification tell-all of tweeting, facebooking, texting, and some emailing has eroded our use of proper grammar. Mrs. Lewis, my junior and senior class English teacher, would purse her lips and shake her head with dismay, if she were with...