EDITORIALS

MobilePack left volunteers smiling

You could probably identify people today who took part in Saturday’s mobile pack for Feed My Starving Children. They are the ones with smiles on their faces.

Clean up to show community pride

In the old Soviet Union, it was called “subbotnik.”

Promen-Aid offers chance to help

Here’s a chance to help someone you may never meet. And a chance to feel a little bit better about yourself.

Tenacity, teamwork are necessary

Help is available.

Unintended results are problematic

The rules have changed. Perhaps irrevocably. When Southern Wells School Board decided this week to take the unprecedented step of sending buses into adjoining school districts to pick up students, a “gentlemen’s agreement” that had been in place for decades disintegrated.

Leaders are charting steady course

When in troubled waters, steer a steady course.

JCH payer mix is out of balance

So, with four sources of hospital revenue — health insurance companies, Medicare, Medicaid and private pay — why has Jay County Hospital been posting red ink?

Health care is complicated

Health care, as President Trump reminds us, is complex. And it’s just as complex on the financial side as it is on the medical side of the equation.

Closing school makes sense for Jay

We can learn from the past, but we can’t change it. We can’t go back and fix decisions that were made five and 10 years ago. There is no time machine. All we can do now is deal with the situation as it stands at present.

Child poverty series starts Monday

No. 1 in child poverty. That was the massive yoke hung around Jay County’s neck when the Indiana Youth Institute’s Data Book came out about a year ago.

Communication helps government

You could call it tedious. You might consider it overkill.

'Connecting' was a good first step

It’s a start.

Council can't duck tough decision

Probably no aspect of local government is as misunderstood as the county council.

Holdman's bill would hurt the poor

State Sen. Travis Holdman has always struck us as a pretty level-headed guy.

Anderson is a teacher to treasure

Do they still make them like Bob Anderson these days? We sure hope so.
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