Boosting Mental Health Care Access

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 youth experience mental illness each year in the United States, but less than half of them receive treatment. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this session we prioritized several bills to increase and improve services and treatment across…

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Spartz Hosts Town Hall In Hamilton County

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN.) continued her town hall meetings with a stop in Hamilton County. Rep. Spartz gave an update on happenings in Washington D.C., including her work on the debt ceiling, health care reform, border security, and Helsinki Commission as well as responded to a number of questions on issues ranging from permitting reform…

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Republican Turned Democrat McCormick Seeks To Defy History

By BRIAN A. HOWEY With Democrat Jennifer McCormick’s official entry into the 2024 Indiana gubernatorial race, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has ruled out seeking the Democratic nomination. “As for me, I don’t see the stars aligning for a McDermott candidacy in 2024 at this time,” McDermott texted told me on Wednesday. Allies of former…

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2023 Bmw 760i Gets A Radical Makeover That Nods To The Past And Future

By Casey Williams It seems about every twenty years, BMW gets radical with the 7-Series. Remember back a couple of decades to the 2003 model that debuted the iDrive infotainment system and “Bangle butt” raised trunklid, named for former BMW design chief, Chris Bangle. Eventually, though, BMW’s competitors copied the car’s controls and rump. As…

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The Postscript by Carrie Classon

“Lukewarm Water” Yesterday wasn’t the best day. I don’t like to complain and, the truth is, I have very little to complain about. Still, yesterday was not the best day. I woke with a stomachache. I’d gone to bed with a stomachache, and this is not terribly unusual. My mother gets stomachaches, and now my…

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Summer Safety – Part 2

Last week I went over some sun and water safety information. This week I want to examine wheeled things that appear in the spring and summer. It’s great to see kids and adults out on their bicycles now that the weather has warmed up. The downside is we will see the inevitable bike accidents. Some…

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Readers’ Choice 2023 Results

Dine In Restaurant Winner: 10 West Runner Up: Grindstone on the Monon Honorable Mentions: Fast Food Restaurant Winner: Chick-Fil-A Runner Up: Culver’s Honorable Mentions: Restaurant Winner: 10 West Runner Up: Grindstone on the Monon Honorable Mentions: Chinese Restaurant Winner: Kobayashu Sushi & Asian Kitchen Runner Up: Peking Garden Honorable Mentions: Coffee Shop Winner: Noble Coffee…

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Daily Almanac: May 20, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset RISE: 6:26 a.m.SET: 9:01 p.m. High/Low Temperatures: HIGH: 70 °FLOW: 51 °F Today is… • Armed Forces Day• Flower Day• World Whisky Day What Happened On This Day: • 1940 The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp. Auschwitz was the biggest extermination camp during World War II. From 1940 to 1945, the Nazi…

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Ask Rusty – I’m Concerned About Social Security Solvency

Dear Rusty: I retired at age 58. My husband and I worked 40 years of employment each. I had a 401K only…no other benefits. We saved, we invested through our financial advisor and have done okay watching our investments grow (except for the last 3 years). Neither my husband nor I have taken Social Security;…

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