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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…
Read MoreRepublican 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…
Read More2023 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreSummer 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…
Read MoreAsk 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;…
Read MoreProm Night Is Always Special
It was May 2, 1981. It’s been a lot of years, but I remember my high school prom like it was yesterday. My prom dress was borrowed from my cousin. My date was a classmate I’d known since kindergarten. And my corsage was a pink carnation that I later pressed in a book to save.…
Read MoreEverything’s Coming Up Peonies This Weekend
Peonies are everywhere downtown Noblesville this weekend during the Indiana Peony Festival, plus join the Charity Ride for American Veteran Riders Association Saturday morning leaving from the Ralph Lehr VFW Post 6246, find your favorite plants at the Hamilton County Master Gardeners’ Plant Sale on Saturday, and buy a new mattress during Noblesville High School…
Read MoreFlanagan, A Profile And The Next Big Ten Coach
It was never fun for opposing centers to see Chicago Bears legend Dick Butkus lined up across the line of scrimmage. For Detroit Lions center Ed Flanagan, it was a rivalry that was played out twice a year from 1965 to 1973. Flanagan, who starred at Purdue before launching a 12-year NFL career, once described…
Read MoreHere’s The Scoop
I am tired of celebrating the 10th anniversary of this, or the 75th anniversary of that. What makes those numbers so special? I told Mary Ellen I had big plans for our 53rd anniversary in a few years. “Great,” she said, “but what about our 50th? I’m sure you have even bigger plans for that…
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