Local Opinion

When occupants of nearly 100 low-income senior households at The Villas in Columbus recently learned they soon will lose their homes, some wondered — and still wonder — where they will go.

French philosopher and statesman Joseph de Maistre is credited with saying it first: “Every country has the government it deserves.” In America, we more often credit the sentiment to Thomas Jefferson, who specifically said, “The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

It’s finally that time of year when temperatures are getting warmer and farmers are in the fields trying to get a crop in the ground. That also means it’s time for property tax statements to hit mailboxes. How closely do you examine your property tax assessment each year?

Trust certain kinds of politicians to find ways to make bad situations worse.

Dear Amy: I have been walking buddies with a neighbor for the last 12 years. We walk together about once a week.

Today’s editorial cartoon.

“If everything’s honest, I’d gladly accept the results,” Donald Trump told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently. “If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.”

Managing growth and development in a way that benefits all Hoosiers should be important to all our elected officials. In the face of population shifts, housing demands, and the need for expanded utility services, it’s time for Indiana to recognize that municipal annexation will sometimes be necessary to fuel our state’s economic engines — our cities and towns.

Terre Haute Tribune-Star

Dear Amy: I’m a 57-year-old man.