Letter From Michiana: Governor Holcomb Does Nothing

By David Hoppe There is heavy equipment lined up on Lakeshore Drive, the main thoroughfare in my Michiana town, Long Beach. Workers are trying to keep the road from falling into Lake Michigan. What’s left of the beach in places now looks like a dump, as people have piled what they can, from parachute-sized sandbags […]

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Letter From Michiana: The failure of IDEM and the EPA

Why is it no one seems to care about the poisons being routinely dumped into Lake Michigan?

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Letter From Michiana: Indiana’s DNR keeps its head in the sand

Instead of helping towns like Long Beach explain to property owners what the Supreme Court ruling means regarding their property or, for that matter, even fully informing themselves and their staff members about the state’s history and law, let alone enforcing that law, the DNR has buried its head in the sand.

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Letter From Michiana: Legalizing Cannabis in Indiana (Don’t Hold Your Breath)

Hoosiers like to say that Indiana waits. Waits, that is, for other states to make changes and adopt new-fangled ideas so that we don’t have to. This attitude is promoted by many of our reigning elected officials, who like thinking of Indiana as the cracker barrel philosopher of states, the winking codger who spits and […]

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Mysteries common to us all: The art of Lois Main Templeton

By David Hoppe I first met Lois Main Templeton at the Faris Building in 1988. My wife and I had moved to Indianapolis with our pre-school son in March of that year. An ice storm descended on the city during our first night in the duplex we rented in Broad Ripple. When we awoke, morning […]

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Trump’s budget kills jobs

Trump and Company are reluctant to come out and say what this really about — the dissolution of the United States of America.

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The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library: Worthy of his name

Vonnegut’s love for Indianapolis was abiding.

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