Local Opinion

Once upon a time in this country, men were men. Women were women. And that wasn’t the beginning of an argument.

CARMEL — Indiana is not a referendum state. Hoosier voters cannot gather signatures to qualify an issue to appear for an up or down vote on the ballot.

Dear Rusty: How does Social Security handle the death of one spouse? Say, for example, the husband receives $2,000 per month in Social Security and his wife receives $1,000 per month. How is the death of either spouse handled?

Picture this, as a kid you move to Brown County, closer to your grandparents. You spend warm summer days at yard sales and ice cream shops.

CARMEL — In two months, Hoosier voters will be selecting nominees for their next governor. Former Republican school superintendent Jennifer McCormick will be the Democrat nominee, and Libertarians have nominated Donald Rainwater again. For Republicans, there are an unprecedented six candidates seeking to replace term-limited Gov. Eric Holcomb.

This week we are continuing our series of columns that provide information to the community about Brown County Schools’ proposed referendum on May 7.

KEY WEST, Fla. — In the nascent days of his administration, Gov. Eric Holcomb found himself confronted with Willie Nelson’s huge Prevost tour bus — the Honeysuckle Rose — in Evansville. Calls were made, and in short order the governor’s boot heels were ambling up the RV steps.

In 2002 Eli Lilly awarded an endowment grant to Brown County Schools with one initiative being to establish and provide seed money for an adult learning center for the Brown County community citizens. Lilly’s belief is that post-secondary education is the foundation for meaningful employment and the basis for creating a satisfying quality of life. From that grant the Career Resource Center (CRC) was established, and now is the branch of adult education in our county. The Brown County Career Resource Center’s (CRC) mission is to, “offer educational opportunities, individual counseling, and career-related services intended to improve quality of life and earning potential through lifelong learning. The individual benefits provided by the CRC become a cumulative benefit for the community as a whole, both economically and through inter-generational transfer”.

Presentism is one of the pervasive evils in our brave new world. It is the new orthodoxy to examine history under a filtering lens that subjects all events and people to our modern conceits.

In this week’s column about the Brown County Schools Referendum that will be on the ballot on May 7, I want to shed light on the economic effects of declining enrollment in Brown County and how funding provided by the state is less than what almost every other school in the country receives per student.