by Michael Leppert | Feb 26, 2021 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
A sad chain of events occurred in and around the Indiana House of Representatives last week. The dust up grew out of the debate on House Bill 1367, a bill that establishes a two-year pilot program allowing the John Glenn School Corporation (JGSC) to initiate a...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 19, 2021 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
For regular readers of my column, it should be no surprise that I am unimpressed with the Civics IQ of most people around here. It is a common thread through much of my writing. That entire group of “regular readers,” literally dozens of people all over...
by Michael Leppert | Feb 5, 2021 | Pop/Life, Sports
Politics has had its turn, and villains seem to be everywhere. So, lets all take America back for one night and unite against a familiar villain, Tom Brady. For those of you who don’t have good enough reasons to root against the “greatest of all...
by Michael Leppert | Jan 22, 2021 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
Amanda Gorman stole the show at the inauguration on Wednesday. After she read her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” I looked her up and followed her on Twitter. She had 80,000 followers. Plenty of other people knew about her before this week. By the time I sat...
by Michael Leppert | Jan 15, 2021 | Politics/Government, Pop/Life
I reevaluated how I was spending my time after election season. Even though the big one went my way, I was exhausted with all of it. And with “the big one” not actually being called until November 7, it was clear to me I needed to change the channel, focus...
by Michael Leppert | Dec 31, 2020 | Pop/Life
I noticed something spectacular the other day when walking by a mirror: the mask I like to wear makes my nose look smaller! OK, maybe it just gently diverts attention from one of the most obvious gifts inherited from my father. I’m not self conscious about my...