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RONN MOTT: Mr. Jefferson
This is something of a high-water mark for these articles of opinion I write for the Tribune-Star. This is article No. 100.
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RONN MOTT: The cookie box
My wife has been baking gingerbread cookies for her family for more than 40 years. She personalizes the boys and girls.
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RONN MOTT: A look backwards
Christmas has come and gone and I’m writing this before the New Year. It may dawn with the fools in Congress saving us from the economic “cliff.” I would like it to happen but I’m not very hopeful.
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Government rules trump state company’s beliefs
When the officers of Grote Industries sat down to discuss a possible legal challenge to the contraceptive mandate in the national health care law, the vote was immediate and unanimous. “We decided that it was definitely against our beliefs,” says chairman and CEO William Grote III.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Movie memories don’t include many of the lengthy variety
There has been lots of reporting lately about how long movies are becoming.
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THOMAS L. STEIGER: Skewed perceptions have us fearing wrong things
Regular readers of my essays probably know that sociologists are often more interested in people’s responses to tragedies like the Newtown, Conn., school massacre than trying to explain the event itself.
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RONN MOTT: Tying up a few loose ends
According to the Mayan prophecy, somewhat misinterpreted, the world did not end on Dec. 21.
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RONN MOTT: NRA off target
Wayne LaPierre, the vice president and executive director of the National Rifle Association, is causing even more agony among Americans because he leads an organization that refuses to get real about gun control.
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RONN MOTT: Christmas, true or false
Christmas with its gaiety, songs, carols, visits with family and friends, is indeed a wonderful time of the year.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Resist that big ‘let down’ on the day after Christmas
Today is the big day. That makes tomorrow a sort of let down — rather like “What have you done for me lately?”
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RONN MOTT: Don’t get caught by a phone scam
I was coming out of Baesler’s parking lot and had driven about a block when my phone rang.
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RONN MOTT: A Christmas Walk
A walk around Collett Park in the dim light of the evening could certainly help to get anyone in a Christmas mood.
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RONN MOTT: What fools we be
It will be a time, Christmas included, that will never be forgotten in Newtown, Connecticut.
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LIZ CIANCONE: No thanks to getting mags delivered via the Internet
I am a creature of habit. I like to know what I’m doing and I need to know how to do it. That’s why I am annoyed when corporate America seems determined to drag me, kicking and screaming into the age of Internet.
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MARK BENNETT: For some people in the Wabash Valley, happy holidays require a little help
Picture yourself as a kid, not yet 5 years old, growing up in a small house in Terre Haute.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Everyone has a favorite holiday
I suppose everyone has a favorite holiday. My guess is that, for most of us, that holiday is Christmas. It's a holiday with a miracle no matter how old we get.
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RONN MOTT: A most enjoyable Christmas ride
A Christmas ride along familiar roads is very good this time of year. So far, no ice, no blinding snow, and the temperatures have not been bad. I always enjoy looking at all the houses and the different ways they light themselves for Christmas.
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RONN MOTT: ‘A feeling of hope’
In college athletics, they don’t give a medal for hope, but they should have given one to Tom Crean when he took over a totally dissipated Indiana University basketball program.
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MARK BENNETT: Beware Ignorance and Want and reap the benefits of early education
Pretend that Charles Dickens is about to become Indiana’s next governor.
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RONN MOTT: “Peace on Earth”
And then the Angel said, “Peace on Earth, good will to men.”
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MARK BENNETT: In spirit of season, calculate your fiscal cliff impact, then argue
Envision “chestnuts roasting on an open fire.”
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RONN MOTT: All charged up for the season
In the last century, the 20th, archaeologists in Baghdad found a clay pot that was angular and tall, and had a metal rod in it.
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RONN MOTT: Dear Santa
Dear Santa:
It has been awhile since I wrote one of these. In fact, I was 9 years-old. I think I’d pretty much given up on you as the only source of Christmas presents, but that year I wanted a bicycle, so I found it necessary to pull out all the stops. -
MARK BENNETT: Tasting panel to help find Champagne Velvet’s ‘million-dollar flavor’
Rounding up enough volunteers to serve on a committee can be a struggle.
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RONN MOTT: Media Watch
I was surprised to learn Abby Walton, after a six-year run at WTHI-TV, is leaving the station and ultimately Terre Haute.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Christmas season puts time back into focus
It’s a funny thing about time. It can speed along so that you cannot believe that your kids can possibly be old enough to have good sense, or it can drag its heels while you wait for that first grandchild or while you are saving up for something really special.
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MARK BENNETT: Members of Congress should be free to consider all sides of an issue
Attempting to trump the U.S. Constitution requires some nerve.
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RONN MOTT: Friends, you must see this movie ‘Lincoln’
Through the movie camera lens darkly, Steven Spielberg transforms the 21st Century to the 19th Century through film.
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RONN MOTT: Christmas is a’ coming
As I glide through the September of my years, Christmas doesn’t mean as much to me, personally, as it used to. But I’m one grouchy old man who loves the holiday, even the things about it that are not true.
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MARK BENNETT: An unbudging Congress standing on opposing sides accomplishes little
Sausage patties, hugging a scoop of scrambled eggs and a couple slices of toast on a plate, and chased with nearby steaming black coffee.
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RONN MOTT: Mr. Jefferson