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KISS Makes Sense, Doesn’t It?
For the regular couple of dozen who read these scribbles (what can I say – it’s grown from eight or nine; like the kids say, I’m blowing out . . . or trendifying . . . or something like that), you may recall that I tend to like messages from a pastor named Allen Jackson…
Read MoreBranna: To Every Season . . .
As we’re facing the upcoming summer-to-fall transition, it reminds me that not only Mother Nature dictates our “seasons.” We roam through runs of relationships our entire life – periods of preferred peers as kids, countless courtships and rendezvous’s with our various “Mr. and Mrs. Wrongs and Rights,” the perpetual period of parenthood and the ups…
Read MoreDr. Derek Arrowood Shares Update
Several Hamilton Heights student-athletes recently partnered with the Hamilton North Public Library as part of All-Star Reads, a statewide initiative celebrating childhood literacy in honor of the 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game. Selected as one of 100 Indiana sites, the library received a curated set of books spotlighting girls and women in athletics. Several Hamilton…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – Can I Switch to a Taxi Job Without Hurting SS Payment?
Dear Rusty: I opted to draw my Social Security retirement benefit early and work part time. The company I work for has decided to pull me from field work due to my age and health. Although they are great keeping me at 20 hours per week running for parts and doing office work, I’m not…
Read MoreCovering Purdue Boiler Greats from No. 31 to 40
From 1887 to 1928, Purdue football did not have a single player earn All-America recognition. That drought ended in 1929 with not one but two All-Americans helping the Boilermakers go undefeated and win the school’s second Big Ten Conference championship. Those two All-Americans, plus Purdue’s all-time rushing leader, head this week’s edition of the best…
Read MoreBranna Sings Back to School Blues
How can this be? It seems like just yesterday that school let out for the summer. Oh the agony…my winter blues are waiting in the wings. I remember the days when summer break meant three full months of frolicking fun in the sun. The end of July meant bracing for the upcoming “Dog Days of…
Read MoreDeadheads, Air Conditioning and Wooly Worms
It’s time for some reader feedback! Ruth Williams wrote that the column on the 1881 heat wave reminded her how stores used to post signs in their windows with messages like “It’s COOL inside” in order to entice summer shoppers to patronize the business. That made me curious to find out when air conditioning first…
Read MoreSeize Days of Summer
It began on June 20 and is barely behind us. It seems as if it was just a fleeting few weeks ago that the hottest time of the year turned the pages of our calendar to fun and frolic in the sun. Memorial Day kicked off the period of time that pooltime is prevalent and…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – When Will Stolen Social Security Funds be Replaced?
Dear Rusty: When will the funds stolen from the SS Fund be replaced? They used Social Security when the government ran out of money and used it for illegals. I think the funds should be replaced except for legitimate payments to Social Security recipients. This money was never meant to be used by the federal…
Read MoreSeries Continues With 2 Greatest Players in Boiler History
The greatest player in Purdue football history headlines this week’s edition of the best Boilermakers by number. Another player on this list could make an argument for that title had he been allowed to play offense more than once in his four-year career. And then there’s the single-game rushing yards record-holder who went on to…
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