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  Nothing to do this weekend? The Trib-Star's 'BASH offers suggestions

  Community Theatre of Terre Haute’s main stage season finale opens this Friday, with the hit Broadway comedy “Social Security,” directed by Sonni Crawford.

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  ISU plans hearing on proposed tuition/fees increase

  Indiana State University will conduct a public hearing at 2 p.m. June 4 to receive input on a proposed 1.95 percent increase in student tuition and mandatory fees for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years.

Opinion Columns

Opinion Columns

• LIZ CIANCONE: A memory test from the oldtime radio days

  For some reason, I seem to be the go-to source for all sorts of obscure information out at the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center.

  April 23, 2013  

• MARK BENNETT: Littered with irony: Why do people callously discard their trash, and who are they?

  Though they aren’t acknowledged by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are basically two demographic groups of people … Those who would dump their old toilet on the banks of the Wabash River or a rural roadside. And those who wouldn’t.

  April 21, 2013 2 Photos  

• RONN MOTT: China

  The recent blustering by North Korea and their weaponry, which now includes ICBMs, has pulled into full attention America’s involvement with China.

  April 20, 2013  

• RONN MOTT: The country is not the NRA

  It’s the United States of America, not the United States of the National Rifle Association. But hey, if that’s your poison, maybe it will change.

  April 18, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Observations of spring

  I turned on the TV last week, got focused on a wrestling match and a basketball game broke out. My goodness, what a rough game with bodies strewn all over the floor. If you were going to contest a shot, you would have to hit him hard, and the rules must have changed because I didn’t recognize any of the foul calls.

  April 17, 2013 1 Photo  

• LIZ CIANCONE: Friskey no doubt was in favor of gun control

  I once owned a gun. Actually, it was Dad’s gun and I was allowed to use it. He bought an air gun which shot BB’s to protect our home — in a way.

  April 16, 2013  

• MARK BENNETT: Performing under the radar: Toiling for years behind the scenes, Terre Haute native J.T. Corenflos finally earned a splash of musical recognition

  People who diligently work to make others shine are a rare breed.

  April 14, 2013 3 Photos  

• RONN MOTT: One and done — revisited

  If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a hundred times or more, John Calipari is a great basketball coach. Well, greatness hit a bit of a bump this year when most likely the player who would have been chosen by the NBA was hurt and missed much of the season at Kentucky.

  April 13, 2013  

• RONN MOTT: “This Bloody Land”

  This bloody land! This bloody land! From mountains high to valleys low to deserts to swamps to the rivers and the fertile plains of this bloody land.

  April 11, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Basketball 2012-13

  Wait a minute … you mean R.J. Mahurin is leaving the Sycamore basketball program?

  April 9, 2013 1 Photo  

• LIZ CIANCONE: A robin stops to welcome the spring

  I saw a robin the other morning. It was not the first robin of spring, of course. A few of the more daring robins had opted to spend the winter and, although they looked pretty sorry about it on a few occasions, it was a fairly mild winter.

  April 9, 2013  

• MAX JONES: The American Newspaper: Changing? Yes. Dying? No way!

  It happened again this past January when all those “looking at the year ahead” stories started popping up on Internet “news” websites and broadcast “news” programs. Under a provocative headline reading something like “Five industries/businesses doomed to tank in the coming year,” there it was, a prediction based on an unsubstantiated “expert” analysis that the newspaper industry will continue in 2013 to suffer its slide into oblivion.

  April 7, 2013  

• RONN MOTT: Finding the news

  Except for the local news on your favorite TV station, I’m having a more difficult time finding stories I would call news. I had high hopes for Charlie Rose on the CBS Morning Show, who has been a man of instinctive, good interview skills and who has a vast amount of knowledge of many things. However, his show seems to be more concerned about things we call feature material in a newspaper.

  April 6, 2013  

• RONN MOTT: The Pope and Me

  I suppose a semi-quasi Protestant like me has no business commenting on the new Pope. However, I find him a delight.

  April 4, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Mascots

  There are many loyalists to the idea of mascots. There have been many I don’t even know about.

  April 2, 2013 1 Photo  

• LIZ CIANCONE: The mystery of the small animal mascot

  I hope you won’t think I’m picking on small animals, but I’ve been thinking about Easter and the Easter bunny.

  April 2, 2013  

• THOMAS L. STEIGER: Civil society is strained, but not broken

  Last month I participated in a United Campus Ministries series on “Bridging the Political Divide.” As is often my “style” in such a presentation, I initially disagree with the premise of the question or statement put to me. Yes, it seems to be that we are as divided about things as ever, but are we at a historic “wide” in the divide?

  March 31, 2013  

• Season of Day 2s arrives

  Calendars in Cincinnati contain one extra holiday — Opening Day, traditionally the first Monday in April.

  March 31, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Saturday in the park

  I got up on a recent Saturday morning and headed for the kitchen. There, I would pour myself a cup of coffee. Then, I would turn the news on and take a stroll across the front porch to locate the paper. I noticed, looking out, that there was a huge amount of people and automobiles at Collett Park. Then I realized they were planting a small tree across the street from my house.

  March 30, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Oh Happy Day!

  If what I read is true, there will be Twinkies for you to munch into sometime this summer. And if that doesn’t make you smile, perhaps the plan to have Ding Dongs and Ho Ho’s also back to fill your sweet tooth and shock your calorie counter.

  March 28, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: Basketball = happiness

  I love March Madness. I think this time of year was created for Hoosiers to re-establish their love for a game that is so identified with the state. I love this time of year, even the snow-filled traditions. It is especially good when a team or two from Indiana does well.

  March 26, 2013 1 Photo  

• LIZ CIANCONE: Rising up to defend the poor groundhog

  I read in the newspaper the other morning that Punxsatawney Phil is being hauled into court and charged with falsely predicting an early spring. I am volunteering my services as counsel for the defense.

  March 26, 2013  

• MARK BENNETT: Amid tragedy and chaos, the hopeful smiles of youth could not be repressed

  The image jars the viewer. On its own, the old photograph appears ordinary. Three smiling kids.

  March 24, 2013 6 Photos  

• RONN MOTT: Valley history still being written

  I really enjoyed Mike McCormick’s article in last Sunday’s Tribune-Star about the French involvement in the Wabash Valley. It was a well-researched, well-written piece about the history of this area. This area has a plethora of historical facts which could fill more than one book.

  March 23, 2013  

• RONN MOTT: Look out!

  The battle drums on the “right” are being pounded already for the 2016 presidential election.

  March 21, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: School Colors

  The University of Michigan adopted its school colors in 1867. A body of students gathered and decided those colors would be azure blue and maize … blue and the color of ripe, golden corn. So it seemed only natural that Michigan would do what others have done before them, their school athletic teams would wear school colors to identify them.

  March 19, 2013 1 Photo  

• LIZ CIANCONE: Keeping eye out for signs of spring

  The problem with expecting a groundhog to predict the arrival of spring is that there are groundhogs scattered all over the country. The Pennsylvania groundhog may not see the same kind of weather as the groundhog out here in Dobbs Park. In this way, false hopes are roused and the groundhog loses credibility as a meteorologist.

  March 19, 2013  

• MARK BENNETT: A century later, ‘On the Banks of the Wabash’ still rises above Indiana politics

  Music and politics share one commonality — people who like a style different from yours are nuts.

  March 17, 2013 4 Photos  

• RONN MOTT: Cute and bizarre

  I suppose most people have had cute, funny or bizarre encounters with domestic pets or even wild animals. I’ve certainly had my share … from my small daughters hoisting a basket full of kittens from the ground to the second floor of our home hoping their mother and I wouldn’t notice, to some interesting sights as I walked the State Line Road close to where I used to live, west of West Terre Haute.

  March 16, 2013 1 Photo  

• RONN MOTT: More Media

  I was reminded after my column on the television media that I had left out sports reporting. It was that I simply ran out of room.

  March 14, 2013 1 Photo  

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