Local Opinion

Thomas Matthew Crooks took his father’s AR-15, climbed a building near former President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally and got several shots off in Trump’s direction before being killed by the U.S. Secret Service. The gun was purchased legally in Pennsylvania by Crooks’ father. Early background reports indicate that the 20-year-old gunman was a loner, a registered Republican, but had also donated to at least one left leaning organization.

From: William Gerhard

The Washington Post

Dear Eric: My grandchildren, ages 10 and 14, have not been to a dentist since long before Covid. I have brought up the subject with their mother and she agrees they need to see a dentist, but it has not happened.

The Republican supermajority in the Indiana General Assembly created a monster and obligated local school districts to feed it. Their monster is book banning and the process they invented to put books on trial.

From: Larry Shade

Technologies and opportunities abound to add clean electric power to our communities and fuel growth in our economy. Indiana is seeing a birth of new industry such as battery manufacturing with more than $6 billion investment and 2,800 jobs created by Stellantis and Samsung SDI in Kokomo, solar panel manufacturing in Jeffersonville and Indianapolis bringing more than 1,400 jobs, EV assembly in Princeton Indiana by Toyota will bring $1.4 billion in investment and there is a growth in demand for datacenters that will bring billions more of investment to our state.

Dear Eric: My husband of 24 years has no interest in me. He’s a hard worker and stays busy all the time. I asked for a divorce, but he won’t do that. There is no intimacy, only the occasional kiss on the cheek, nothing more.

Dear Eric: I’m 26 and have been living on my own in an apartment for two years. I ran into some financial difficulties and had to get some money from my grandpa and parents.

Dear Eric: Our daughter is expecting her first child, our first grandchild, in a couple of months. Our daughter and son-in-law live about an hour closer to his family than they do to us.