California likes to pass initiatives and "propositions." Matters we folks in Indiana routinely leave to our legislature wind up as ballot measures out in la-la land; the just-concluded March 7 primary…
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Magic of Prayer
Well, I see where someone has stolen a plaque of the Ten Commandments from the Morgan County Courthouse. Reporters have expressed surprise, because one of the Commandments, as we all…
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Sending a Message
By the time you read this column (if we are lucky), the Indiana Legislature will have finished its work and gone home. Watching the legislative process always makes me wonder whether democracy can really last…
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DiverCity
In all of the years I have been attending the Taylor Symposia, I cannot remember confronting a more important topic than the one implicit in the Symposium title, DiverCity…
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Health Policy in America
As a population, we tend to be woefully uninformed about public health matters, even as we become more and more obsessed with our individual health and fitness. That lack of information contributes to our failure to achieve consensus on change: we all know the current system isn’t working very well, but we know very little about where and why.
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