The News and Tribune

Grand jury sends twisted message
Most of us learn from an early age that when we get sick people treat us differently and we sometimes get benefits we wouldn’t get otherwise.
Pray this correctness ends
First, I’d like to use this space to say goodbye to my seniors from this past year. I have known them since they were sophomores and have seen the maturing of most of them.
A PROMISE FULFILLED
On a warm June day in 1944, Charles Buczinski, a sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, climbed aboard a B-17 bomber.
MARCUS: If you want a larger slice, get a bigger pie
How much should an executive be paid? More or less than a professional athlete? How much medical care is a person entitled to receive? Does that depend on his or her age or the genetic code that she or he carries?
Getting Congress to show up
Watching Congress this year has put me in mind of that classmate we all had in high school who liked to wait until three days before his term paper was due to really dig into it. He usually got it done, but not in a way that made him want his parents to see it.
HARBESON: A site on time shortens line
Back in high school, I sat in a long traffic jam on the Watterson Expressway, waiting to go see the newest movie craze. My friend and I crawled along wondering if we’d get the tickets. Finally we made it to the show. Wow, we thought, this is definitely worth the wait. It was John Travolta after all.
MCDONALD: Graduates, surround yourself with success
To all of those young people graduating from high school and college, you have a lot of places to go. And you will find that not to anyone’s surprise that life is not fair. You will also find that to succeed, you must continue to learn from mistakes and build your body of knowledge.
WRIGHT: Hoosiers shouldn’t dismiss immigration issue
Settled into my Midwestern life for the past 30 years, I can’t say exactly when it hit me. Maybe it was the day I heard someone speaking Spanish in JayCee’s grocery, or noticed tomatillos and three kinds of chiles in the produce aisle.
STAWAR: Cute doll or another mouth to feed?
Last year dolls made up a $2.7 billion segment of the $21.3 billion dollar toy industry according to the Toy Industry Association. The American Girl Doll Division of Mattel accounted for a sizable chunk ($379 million) of these sales.

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