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Little Boy Blue And The Man In The Moon

Arnold Hamilton - August 31, 2013 0

BY DAVID PERRYMAN “A child arrived just the other day, came to the world in the usual way,” so says the first few chords of...

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Five Freedoms Fueled 1963 ‘March’ – And Much More

Arnold Hamilton - August 30, 2013 0

BY GENE POLICINSKI Labor Day weekend is upon us, just a few days this year past the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King...

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Panhandling Is Not Harmless

Arnold Hamilton - August 29, 2013 0

BY FROMA HARROP Indianapolis offers the full urban deal: great architecture, hot restaurants, famous museums and a walkable downtown. But it also has had one of the worst panhandler problems I’ve seen. At almost every street corner, it seemed, someone was squeezing you for money. This month, Indianapolis joined San Antonio, Portland, OR, and numerous […]

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Getting Ahead On The Backs Of Others

Arnold Hamilton - August 28, 2013 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Having been raised in a small-business family and now running my own small outfit, I always find it heartwarming to see hardworking, enterprising folks get ahead. So I was really touched when I read that, even in these hard times, one extended family with three generations active in their enterprise is hanging […]

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Chemical Weapons

Arnold Hamilton - August 28, 2013 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH There have to be lines. We are not in the business of regime change. We cannot be the world’s police. There are civil wars we won’t stop, abusive leaders we won’t depose, corrupt governments we will decline to see as such. But there have to be some things that even the worst […]