Opinion

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The Dallas Morning News

Over the past four decades, the United States suffered its first prolonged period of economic divergence. This type of divergence occurs when rich places grow at a noticeably different rate than poor places, which causes the standard of living to diverge. Roughly around 1980, the nation experienced broad convergence, and capital (businesses) and people migrated from poorer (lower-income, lower-cost) areas to richer (higher-income, higher-cost) areas.

(Columbus) The Republic

Most of the talk surrounding the special session that starts Monday is about abortion, but that issue isn’t even the primary reason Gov. Eric Holcomb called lawmakers back to duty. Instead it’s about rebates or refunds or inflation relief - whatever they choose to call it.

Now that I am old enough to embody a Duke Ellington song – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” – I guess I should be grateful that government is willing to expend so much time, effort and money to aid my mobility.

To the Editor:

Some things grow old fast.

Mid-July is number-cruncher nirvana if you follow the Indiana state budget. That’s when the Indiana State Budget Agency releases its closeout for the previous fiscal year. This year the glorious day fell on Friday, July 15, and we learned one astounding fact: At the end of June, the end of fiscal year 2022, Indiana balances were $6.1 billion. Our state has six billion dollars in the bank.

More Hoosiers and Americans are in need of mental health services after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and its multiple effects.