Today, the Angola and Steuben County community says goodbye to a few thousand temporary residents also known as the student body at Trine University.
In the 11th hour, the Indiana Legislature approved the next budget that calls for the dumbing down of Hoosiers by zeroing out funding for public broadcasting.
A friend of mine in college was from Michigan City and we had some great fun together, especially in our discussions about politics.
It’s been fewer than 100 days since Donald Trump returned to the White House, and in that short time, the president, his ultra-MAGA cabinet, and tech mogul Elon Musk have taken a sledgehammer to the institutions, values, and norms that hold together American society.
The irony couldn’t be greater.
If the directives coming out of Washington and Indianapolis these days seem confusing to you, you’re not alone.
Imagine this scenario: You awake one morning to see huge spaceships hovering over your neighborhood. In your front yard, someone from another planet is holding a clipboard as he gives orders to the demolition crew.
When it comes to voting in the Indiana Legislature or in Congress, sometimes we wonder if our representatives do much homework about the folks back home before they signal their vote on a particular issue.
Anita Hess had seen enough.
If you didn’t read about it you most surely heard from a neighbor or friend or on social media that one of our fire chiefs in northeast Indiana, Ike Notestine and family, lost their home on Saturday.
When the President Donald Trump administration announced a federal freeze in grant and loan spending, Indiana’s Gov. Mike Braun cheered the president’s action.
It was almost exactly five years ago to this date that the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States.
Politicians are known for making promises. Keeping them, that’s the difficult part.
The words shared following the passing of former President Jimmy Carter have resonated throughout the world.
As we start the new year and a new session of Congress, our congressman in northeast Indiana is now Marlin Stutzman, R-Howe.
Here are a couple wishes for the coming year for our communities in northeast Indiana. Our wishes might be a bit far-fetched, but it's the end of the year and resolutions for the coming year are often out there. If we are going to dream, we might as well dream big, right?
It’s been a few years now that high school football teams in Indiana get the privilege of going to the hallowed grounds that are Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to play in the Indiana high school football finals.
At Central Noble Schools and at the Metropolitan School District of Steuben County, we have seen great success at providing early learning and child care that are necessary in those communities.
When David Ober was the state representative for House District 82, he became known for perhaps novel, if not unique legislation.
Take a drive on S.R. 8 in Auburn on any given day, then come back in a month and see if you can tall a difference. Most likely you will.
We welcome letters to the editor. Letters about candidates in the Tuesday, Nov. 5, election must be received by Friday, Oct. 25, at 5 p.m. The final day we will publish election-related letters is Thursday, Oct. 31.
It might seem like the long slog of the 2024 campaign is finally coming to a close.
With the passing of Labor Day weekend we are now well beyond the major festivals our communities celebrate during the summer.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record in this space, well, we’re going to sound like a broken record in this space.
This has been a tough week in Steuben County.
For the past couple weeks, many of us have been glued to watching the Olympics.
Too often we hear the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
There has been great news about local trail systems in northeast Indiana the past few weeks.
In his short time at the helm as director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, 2005-2006, Kyle Hupfer, Republican Party ladder climber at the time, gave us one indelible rule: The ability to carry a handgun in an Indiana State Park.
When the Angola Common Council signed an agreement with the Indiana Department of Transportation to extend a sewer line some three miles from U.S. 20 south to the Pigeon Creek Welcome Center in May, we applauded the effort for the potential development it could open up.
There has been some talk within government and developer circles that projects are being put on hold due to uncertainty in the national climate, particularly with a national election looming.
During the spring campaign for the Republican nomination for Indiana governor, most of the candidates did their best to distance themselves from current Gov. Eric Holcomb.
Over the years some communities in our corner of Indiana have been models for governing and others, well, not so much.
EDITOR’S NOTE: There are some in our communities who prefer to live in a time when it was OK to burn coal to power our homes and run our factories. There are some who would prefer to live under the soot of coal plants, it would seem, before they were required to have scrubbers and other poll…
This time of the year is quite busy for the folks at Trine University. Of course the school year is winding down and, as many know, today marks commencement.
When the home office requested a report about the activities of the KPC daily newspapers at the start of the year (those bosses and their reports!) we were pleased when they asked for certain data based on metrics from November 2023.
We welcome letters to the editor. Letters about candidates and/or proposals in the Tuesday, May 7, primary election must be received by Friday, April 26, at 5 p.m.
By now, you have probably made plans to attend an event to view Monday’s total eclipse, whether it is at a local activity at a park or simply by stepping outside during the totality or maximum obstruction of the sun by the passing moon.
Matt Wiedenhoefer always gets a chuckle out of talking about the fixtures in the restrooms at the MSD Early Learning Center.
Talk to just about any provider of child care in northeast Indiana and beyond and they are likely to tell you that the model doesn’t work.
History, once again, seems to be lost on some members of the Indiana Legislature, which was supposed to end this year’s edition of governing — or maybe not so much — Friday night.
This election cycle has become one that could set the mold for future elections where candidates are challenged prior to primary elections.
Here we are a little more than 10 weeks away from the May 7 primary election and, based on the television advertising, you would think it was a presidential year in any of the early states that select their electors to go to the national convention and cast their ballots for their state’s choice.
Over the course of seven-plus years, we have been generally impressed with Gov. Eric Holcomb.
At the start of school earlier this week, the Monday morning announcements at Carlin Park Elementary School included an observation, beyond it being the 109th day of school; last week was the first time in all of 2024 that school was in session every day of the week.
Every session of the General Assembly we Hoosiers are treated to a variety of issues and actions that are truly head-scratchers.
In an email conversation with staff the other day about an unrelated topic, Fremont Community Schools’ Superintendent Bill Stitt’s exclamation point key got a workout.
It has been widely reported that there has been a spike in the incidence of COVID-19 across the country, and the numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bear that out.
By now, many of our newly elected officials have attended at least one of their first official meetings. Others will do so in the coming days or weeks.
“Lower my taxes, Ease my woes, No more mayors with panty hose. Burma Shave.”
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