News From Terre Haute, Indiana Mark Bennett B-Sides

MARK BENNETT: Proposed trail would give river development momentum, reacquaint community with Wabash

2012-02-12T05:02:00-05:00

Terre Haute and the Wabash River were like strangers living next door to each other.

MARK BENNETT: Super Bowl luck? His is mostly bad

2012-02-02T05:03:00-05:00

I’ve learned to take a Seinfeld approach to Super Bowls.
In a flash of clairvoyance, Jerry excitedly reminded buddy George Costanza that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.”

MARK BENNETT: Not-so-casual observers

2012-01-29T05:02:00-05:00

In the minds of many adults, the most upstanding generation of young people was, ironically, their own.

MARK BENNETT: On the banks of the Wabash, a sculpture

2012-01-26T05:00:05-05:00

Paul Dresser remembered his hometown at its best. Terre Haute should remember him the same way.

MARK BENNETT: A reminder for electorate: You get what you vote for

2012-01-19T05:03:00-05:00

In the rear-view mirror of our lives, some days loom larger than we expected.
For many Hoosiers, the date Nov. 2, 2010, probably fits that category.

MARK BENNETT: Keys to the future

2012-01-15T05:02:00-05:00

Steve Witt fielded a jarring phone call in October 2007.

MARK BENNETT: Hall-of-Famer Larkin delivered more than clutch hits

2012-01-12T05:00:02-05:00

A logjam of kids swelled behind the first-base dugout in Riverfront Stadium.

MARK BENNETT: Polian, Colts and Terre Haute were good for one another

2012-01-05T05:02:00-05:00

Sentimentality seems alien in a discussion of Bill Polian.
That emotion rarely influenced his decisions in 14 seasons as the day-to-day boss of the Indianapolis Colts. He surely felt it, but seldom submitted to it. The NFL is a business, after all, with winning as its bottom line. Polian knew how to make that happen, and did. Anyone or anything threatening to divert the Colts from title contention could not linger. When it came to that mission, Polian functioned with all of the sentimentality of Joe Friday.

MARK BENNETT: In this day and age, pure quiet is hard to find

2011-12-18T05:02:00-05:00

It’s hard to emulate JFK — this JFK, at least.

MARK BENNETT: Rose professor’s bit part in classic holiday movie leaves a major memory

2011-12-15T05:08:00-05:00

Most of us see a bit of ourselves in “A Christmas Story.” Mike Kukral does so, literally. The 1983 movie grew into a holiday classic because so many of its poignant, awkward and hilarious moments seem to have been pulled straight from our childhood memories.