Editorials
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EDITORIAL: A Senate seat in good hands
For the first time in 36 years, someone other than Richard Lugar is holding the former senior senator’s seat in the United States Senate.
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EDITORIAL: Beyond the ‘fiscal cliff’
A tattered curtain has finally fallen on the theater of the absurd that played out the past few days in the U.S. Congress. It was a frustrating spectacle to watch. And despite New Year’s Day’s late-night action to avoid the government’s going over the so-called “fiscal cliff,” it should be clear to all that Congress accomplished only part of its job.
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EDITORIAL: A checklist for good citizenship
A year ago today, on New Year’s Day 2012, we offered a litany of thoughts for the coming year with the emphasis on becoming a better citizen. The editorial received so much positive response that we decided to republish it, with a couple of minor adjustments, on New Year’s Day 2013.
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EDITORIAL: ‘Year of the River’ brings focus to our Wabash bond
New Year’s Day always brings a sense of expectation, reflection and anxiety.
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EDITORIAL: Seeking holiday spirit in the Christmas story
Let us reflect today on what Christmas is really about — a religious celebration that means so much to so many in our country and around the world.
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EDITORIAL: Celebrating the children this Christmas
Lest we forget amid the hustle and bustle of a frantic holiday season, children are an integral part of this religious holiday. It is, after all, the birth of a child we celebrate.
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EDITORIAL: State same-sex marriage ban should be rejected
The American people have been shifting in their views of same-sex marriage for some time now, and the evolution of public opinion is clearly moving toward more tolerance, even acceptance.
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EDITORIAL: Noteworthy in the news
The construction season on Interstate 70 in 2012 was long, difficult and, on too many occasions, tragic.
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EDITORIAL: Responding to a threat
Vigo County school administrators and law enforcement officials found themselves in a tense and difficult predicament this week in wake of last week’s devastating massacre of 26 children and adults at an elementary school in Connecticut.
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EDITORIAL: Renew the gun ban
Curbing the type of hideous violence that claimed the lives of 26 innocent children and adults last week in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., is by all estimations a “complex” challenge.
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EDITORIAL: Don’t let pot smoke obscure bigger issue
The national buzz over decriminalized marijuana is threatening to cast a smoky pall over a vitally important, long-time-coming improvement in Indiana’s criminal sentencing laws that deserves to gain General Assembly approval in 2013.
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EDITORIAL: Toke ’em if ya got ’em?
By now, you’ve probably seen the images of exultant Washington state residents lighting up marijuana cigarettes and pipes at midnight Dec. 6 when a new state law went into effect that decriminalizes possession of up to an ounce of pot by those 21 and older.
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EDITORIAL: Inherited public expense
The phrase “leaving the bill to our grandchildren” has become popular in recent years.
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EDITORIAL: Ban smoking in our parks
Ah, a brisk late fall day in the park.
Birds flying, squirrels scampering, joggers running, breezes blowing, playground equipment rocking with kids, cigarette smokers puffing.
The Terre Haute City Parks Department — and its Vigo counterparts — has a chance to eliminate the one of those that doesn’t fit the others in a park setting. -
EDITORIAL: Teaching credentials changes are too much, too quick
We thought the whole stated point of the Mitch Daniels-Tony Bennett torrent of breakneck changes exacted upon Indiana’s primary and secondary schools was to improve the quality of education so our student
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EDITORIAL: Noteworthy in the news
It was the “Ghost of Christmas Past” who paid a visit to downtown Terre Haute a few years ago, reminding one and all of those glorious days of yesteryear when the holiday shopping season played out in spectacular fashion on Wabash Avenue.
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EDITORIAL: Online sales taxes — now
Just about a year ago, when Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sealed a sweetheart deal with online sales giant Amazon.com that let that company delay collecting sales tax until 2014, many, including us, complained about two more years of no tax revenues for Indiana from that merchant and others similar to it.
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EDITORIAL: Miles reignited ISU’s football dream
As Trent Miles leaves Terre Haute, this community now knows almost nothing here is impossible.
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EDITORIAL: A worthy wish list
Amid the flashier holiday advertising sheets tucked inside last Thursday’s Tribune-Star, we hope you found a booklet labeled “2012 Holiday Wish List” that was compiled by the Wabash Valley Community Foundation.
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EDITORIAL: Stakes are high as fiscal cliff looms
Some constituents in the 8th District, represented in Congress by second-term Republican Larry Bucshon, want him to refuse any “fiscal cliff” compromise with Democrats.
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EDITORIAL: Recognition for Ruble
It’s not easy for someone operating in the public sphere to fly under proverbial radar for several decades, especially if a person’s vision, leadership and hard work are steadily building something destined to become a community treasure.
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EDITORIAL: Noteworthy in the news
• A party in need of a leader
• Halt! Police! Drop that camera!
• Cheers, jeers and tears
• Reader poll results
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EDITORIAL: Appreciation for courageous stand
Solid public service improves the quality of life. In the wake of this month’s election, we remember the effort, careful consideration and fortitude involved in a landmark piece of local public policy.
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EDITORIAL: Put ‘takers’ talk to rest
In this season of giving, it’s ironic to hear such bitter words about “takers” in America.
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EDITORIAL: The season for shopping
Terre Haute’s status as a regional retail center for the 10- to 12-county area of west-central Indiana and east-central Ilinois means steady shopping traffic into commercial districts virtually year-round.
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EDITORIAL: A day for gratitude
How fitting it is that the movie “Lincoln” is a box-office hit this holiday season.
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EDITORIAL: Noteworthy in the News
Finally, we’re detecting a more moderate tone from Statehouse Republicans in their reaction to the recent defeat of education reform champion Tony Bennett, who lost his re-election bid for superintendent of public instruction to upstart Democrat Glenda Ritz.
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EDITORIAL: Electing schools chief provides balance
After losing the state Superintendent of Public Instruction race to an insurgent Democrat in the Nov. 6 election, some Republicans in the Indiana Statehouse now want to change the rules to make the position appointive rather than elective.
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EDITORIAL: Price for modernizing sewers steep, but an essential step
The Civil War was a long time ago. Yet, segments of the Terre Haute city sewer system date back to that era.
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EDITORIAL: A Senate seat in good hands