In February, the House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act with the support of 8th District Congressman Mark Messmer, who has since urged the Senate to pass the bill. Congressman Messmer wants us to believe the SAVE Act is about preventing non-citizens from voting in our elections, but multiple studies show that non-citizen voting is…
My husband and I recently relocated here with our three children after carefully deciding to return to the area where I grew up. Over the years, I spoke often about the values and opportunities this community offered—its strong sense of neighborliness, affordability, and, most notably, the natural beauty of the rolling hills and open land…
I want to make a short statement that you can agree with or disagree with as you wish, and another statement that is unfinished. I ask readers to furnish the ending. My statement: When fools obtain political power, they become dangerous to everyone. The statement for readers to finish: A person who gives his or…
I was at the March 20 Mid-States Corridor meeting of the Dubois County Commissioners and came home with more questions and far more unease with the future than when I left home. However, I was under the mistaken illusion that the county commissioners were there to represent the entire county when I discovered that they had…
On Monday, March 16, 2026 the Mid-States Corridor RDA folks, Mr. Bill Kaiser and Mr. Mark Schroeder, once again appeared before the Dubois County Board of Commissioners. They presented a resolution for the Commissioners, to approve, to recommend the continuance of the RDA’s charter. To the credit of the Commissioners, they opted not to make the…
As mentioned, a significant portion of the farmland used to produce ethanol also yields a co-product. Approximately one-third of the corn per bushel will be used to produce high-protein animal feed.1 In my previous letter, I briefly mentioned agrivoltaics, the dual use of land for solar and agriculture. Many solar farms raise livestock that freely graze…
It was recently written by our Republican State Treasurer, “These Hoosiers don’t have a lobbyist in Washington. They don’t have a seat at the table when a $33 billion deal gets signed.” Republicans have been the majority party in Indiana for more than a couple of decades. Any problems we have are the fault of…
While I respect Mr. Huddleston’s opinion, I believe the comparison between solar development and productive farmland overlooks several key facts. The claim that farmland would be more valuable covered with solar panels than growing crops overlooks several important facts about agriculture. While about 40% of U.S. corn is used for ethanol, that corn does not…
BlackRock, along with EQT, the Qatar Investment Authority and CalPERS, has announced a $33 billion deal to acquire AES Corp., the parent company of AES Indiana. I am extremely concerned by the news that more than 500,000 Hoosiers in Marion, Hendricks, Morgan, Boone, Hamilton, Putnam, Johnson, Shelby and Hancock counties will now be served by…
To answer, Does turning farmland into solar make sense for our future? I think it makes more sense than how farmland is used to grow crops for fuel today. Roughly 38% to 40% of the total U.S. corn crop, more than 30 million acres, is farm-to-fuel land dedicated to growing corn for ethanol production. Now,…
