Opinion
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READERS' FORUM: Feb. 3, 2012
• Keep pressure on the Pentagon
• Supportive words for Jim Mann
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EDITORIAL: Big ‘kick’ from a native son
Every player in Sunday’s Super Bowl is from somewhere. But not every player remembers where he’s from and reaches out to consistently help those back home. Not like Steve Weatherford. Make that not like Terre Haute’s Steve Weatherford.
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EDITORIAL: Smoking ban good enough
When it comes to getting things done in the Indiana General Assembly, progress is often measured in baby steps. Indeed, it can take years to achieve even meager accomplishments.
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READERS' FORUM: Feb. 2, 2012
• There are reasons unions are needed
• Why so hard to get a tow here?
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EDITORIAL: United Way’s strong reputation helps sustain community trust
It would be foolish in any community to take “positives” for granted, but it’s easy to understand how a casual observer would assume that United Way of the Wabash Valley will always come through with flying colors.
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READERS' FORUM: Feb. 1, 2012
• Better options for Deming Park area
• Tuskegee Airmen had local member
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LIZ CIANCONE: Super Bowl festivities mostly for super rich
I hate being in a minority, but I guess I am. I am considerably less than thrilled over having the Super Bowl altogether too close to my back yard.
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 31, 2012
• Science from the heavens
• Unions exist to aid the worker
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 30, 2012
• Right-to-work bill hurts state’s workers
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MARK BENNETT: Not-so-casual observers
In the minds of many adults, the most upstanding generation of young people was, ironically, their own.
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EDITORIAL: Nothing sexy about human trafficking
When kickoff comes at the 2012 Super Bowl, expectations will be high for a fun, competitive, fanatical contest between the two survivors of the NFL’s regular season.
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FLASHPOINT: Republicans enable war on middle class, unions
About six years ago at the pinnacle of the Bush/GOP Dictatorship, I began telling you that the wealthy and Corporate America were laying the ground work to politically, financially and physically take over America.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Bauer leading Democrats from disaster to catastrophe
In the end, it was the crushing fines set up in the 2011 anti-bolt legislation that caused B. Patrick Bauer and House Democrats to cave on right-to-work Wednesday.
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 29, 2012
• Obama wrong on recess appointments
• Thanks for honoring ‘Soup’ at his passing
• Mercury more danger than coal emission?
• Beware employers who cut corners
• All beliefs need to be respected
• People’s decency becomes evident
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 28, 2012
• Don’t muzzle North’s ‘Woelf Pack’
• The true legacy of coach Paterno
• Bullet holes suggest dangerous gun use
• Union coercion in right-to-work issue
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 27, 2012
• Labor bill would divide unions
• GOP sure to retain Statehouse control
• Internet lies about liberalism and more
• National debt backs job growth numbers
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EDITORIAL: The law’s good ‘Shepard’
Under the radar and against the backdrop of the fractious right-to-work battle going on in Indianapolis, one of state’s leading public servants delivered his valedictory in typical understated, even quiet, style two weeks ago. And before Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard slips away into retirement, his work needs to be acknowledged and praised.
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 26, 2012
• Right-to-work law wrong for workers
• Put labor law on the ballot
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EDITORIAL: Cops at risk
Indiana lawmakers are playing with a loaded gun in a bill that passed the Indiana Senate Monday, 45-5.
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 24, 2012
• Super Bowl raises parking, gas prices
• Obama should OK energy job issue
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LIZ CIANCONE: Catalog this mail as junk
On or about Dec. 1, I picked up the mail to find three Christmas cards along with an unusual spate of catalogs. The cards reminded me that mine were still in the bottom drawer of the desk waiting to be addressed. I appreciated that.
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TRIBUNE-STAR EDITORIAL: Helping your community, a few mouse clicks at a time
When you type WabashValleyGives.org into your web browser, hundreds of opportunities to help your local community will open on the screen before you.
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EDITORIAL: Raves around the town
To begin the week, we are raving about these recent pieces of local news:
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 23, 2012
• Keystone pipeline is needed now
• Great seasons for South Vigo sports
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MARK BENNETT: Indianapolis will be on display for the nation with the Super Bowl coming to town
Someone immersed in a crash diet to make a smashing impression at a class reunion may get the desired effect.
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EDITORIAL: Let Hoosiers have a say on right-to-work bill
Indiana legislators, both Republican and Democrat, may claim to know the will of the people on right-to-work.
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THOMAS L. STEIGER: More to labor issue than basic economics
Right-to-work (RTW) is another of Gov. Daniels’ crises of the season.
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FLASHPOINT: Howey ignores truth to advance his agenda
Brian Howey’s Jan. 8 column about the U.S. Senate race proves once again that he will not allow the facts or journalistic ethics to get in the way of attacking Richard Mourdock and promoting his chosen candidate, Dick Lugar.
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READERS' FORUM: Jan. 22, 2012
• Distorted view of mine’s practices
• Planning is necessary to ensure free market
• Bring back one-class tourney
• Wonderful book for a great cause
• Liberals no longer hold moral ground
• Another great holiday tourney
• A few things to think about
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BRIAN HOWEY: Daniels gives an emphatic endorsement of Lugar
Gov. Mitch Daniels offered up an emphatic endorsement of his mentor — U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar — before about 300 Republicans on Wednesday night, calling him the “most significant public official in the last century in our state. . .
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READERS' FORUM: Feb. 3, 2012




