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Facts, prefacts, and truth

Facts, prefacts, and truth

by Michael Leppert | Aug 18, 2022 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government

It’s time to have a heart-to-heart talk about truth, lies, facts and fiction. A whole new season of make-it-up-as-Trump-goes began last week. So, I felt obligated to share some research about how bad many of our countrymen, and yes, they are mostly men, have gotten in...
America is losing in the survival of the selfish

America is losing in the survival of the selfish

by Michael Leppert | Jul 17, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government

In his 2010 book, The Last Train From Hiroshima, Charles Pellogrino quotes a survivor of the infamous American bombing of Japan at the end of World War II. The description given was how those who survived did so by taking care of themselves. We often hear stories...
The shame that awaits us when the pandemic is through

The shame that awaits us when the pandemic is through

by Michael Leppert | May 29, 2020 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life

What do you really know about the 1918 pandemic? Recent events have led me to learn a little about it, and based on my conversations, the little I have learned is measurably more than most. It is bizarre how little we know about what happened only a century ago, in...
Gun manufacturers are killing their best customers

Gun manufacturers are killing their best customers

by Michael Leppert | Jun 7, 2019 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government, Pop/Life

I ran into a friend on Tuesday night who disagrees with me on gun policy. Plenty of my friends do. Whatever. To keep it fresh, I have new reasons this time. Our gun laws need to be modernized. Most Americans agree. Pew Research published another telling report on the...
Mediocrity plus ‘pure evil’ is a deadly combination in Parkland

Mediocrity plus ‘pure evil’ is a deadly combination in Parkland

by Michael Leppert | Feb 16, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government

It has been one of those weeks, like so many other weeks in America. It started off with a big dose of optimism when former First Lady Michelle Obama visited Indianapolis. Her speeches are always positive and always uplifting. I found myself anxiously straining to...
Opioids, childproof caps and a new version of an old idea

Opioids, childproof caps and a new version of an old idea

by Michael Leppert | Feb 2, 2018 | Health/Fitness, Politics/Government

How many of us have ever heard of a Canadian doctor named Henri J. Breault? Dr. Breault practiced medicine in Western Ontario and was the leader of a campaign to stop accidental childhood poisonings. Facing an epidemic of these poisonings, he first formed an alliance...
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Keeping the Big Ten Network on the Air

One of Mr. Leppert’s successful projects was his media campaign on behalf of the Big Ten Network in its dispute with cable formats for broad distribution of the network during its start-up years. He wrote and distributed press releases, organized supporters to attend press conferences and traveled the state for media events with both Mark Silverman, the original president of the network and Jim Delany, the long-time commissioner of the Big Ten Conference. Silverman has since moved into an executive position at Fox Sports, and Delany has announced his retirement in June of this year. The media output and related responses to it were vital in moving the stalled discussions to a mutually beneficial resolution between the network and cable formats. The Big Ten Network is distributed widely today and is a model for college sports networks. The three of us were only flagged for speeding one time during the campaign, fittingly on State Road 37, while racing between press conferences at IU and downtown Indianapolis.
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Moving Indiana Forward with Bias Crimes Legislation

Mr. Leppert was engaged by the United Way of Central Indiana to design and implement the campaign in 2018-19 for the passage of new hate/bias crime legislation in Indiana. The foundation of this coalition was built by joining two organizations, the Indiana Alliance Against Hate, and Indiana Competes. After several years of resistance in the Indiana General Assembly, specifically since the RFRA session of 2015, this campaign was the catalyst to passage of the new law and removing Indiana from the list of only five states without hate crimes legislation. More than 800 members of the smaller merged entities were mobilized. Press events were held throughout the state. Editorial boards were visited. Letter writing and phone banking strategies were implemented. The management of this large group, and the short timeframe available to make our impact was an experience. While the law enacted by the legislature did not include all of the protected classes our coalition sought for inclusion, the establishment of hate or bias as statutory consideration in sentencing was established for many classes. Our campaign proved successful.
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