by: Dan Klein and Staff Reports
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Jan 7, 2021 / 10:52 PM EST
(WISH) Among those calling for the impeachment or the use of the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump is a group of more than 40 Hoosiers who study politics for a living.
They’re part of a group of more than 1,400 professors around the globe who have signed onto an open letter to the Congress, Vice President Mike Pence and the Cabinet.
Some have been threatened over the phone and email after putting their name on the list, leading one professor from Indiana University to decline a News 8 interview request.
Jeffrey Isaac and Kindred Winecoff, though, hope adding their names can lend credibility to the conversation.
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At some point on or before January 20, Inauguration Day, moving trucks will roll up outside Number One Observatory Circle, a 9,150-square-foot Queen Anne–style house in Northwest Washington, D.C., where Pence and his wife, Karen, have lived the last four years. Movers will pack up all their earthly belongings. Then the trucks will likely head west back to Indiana, where political allies say Pence will regroup and plot out his next four years in a territory not all that unfamiliar to him: the political wilderness.
Mother, three daughters all nurses during COVID-19 pandemic
Hayden Mills has a right to be proud.
In a recent Facebook post, he shared pictures of his mother, Colette Mills, and three sisters, Caitlin Ackeret, Lainey Mills and Hannah Mills, who are all nurses.
That profession is in the spotlight this year as health care professionals are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From left, siblings Hannah Mills, Lainey Mills and Caitlin Ackeret and their mother, Colette Mills, are all nurses. Sydney Mills | for the tribune
Sisters, from left, Hannah Mills, Caitlin Ackeret and Lainey Mills gather for a photo with their mother, Colette Mills, who was nominated for a DAISY Award by her employer, Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, in 2019. SUBMITTED
To Keep Schools Open, Schools Ask College Students to Help
December 22, 2020
Grace Kern is working a substitute teacher at the Greenfield Intermediate School in Greenfield, Indiana. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
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In a town near Indianapolis, Indiana, 19-year-old college student Grace Kern has been working in elementary school classrooms. She is helping students as teachers offer instruction online via a screen inside the room. My dad told me that a
bunch of teachers are out and they re struggling to get substitutes in. And I was like, Well, all my classes are online, except for one, so I have the time to do it. And I would hate for the schools and the students to struggle, she said. Grace Kern is studying medical imaging technology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.
Local woman receives Friend of Extension Award
Purdue Extension Jackson County Director Heather VonDielingen, left, is pictured with Iveth Vasquez. Submitted photo
Purdue Extension Jackson County recently announced Iveth Vasquez had been named the recipient of the 2020 Friend of Extension Award for the state of Indiana.
The Seymour woman started the Working for Our Dreams 4-H Club that provides a well-rounded 4-H experience for Latino youth. She also serves on the 4-H expansion and review committee and Purdue Extension board and is employed by Purdue Extension Jackson County as a site coordinator for the Juntos 4-H program.
“To be honest, I do not have words to express how I feel. It is too much to explain,” she said. “I feel like Joseph in Egypt. God is putting me in a position that is reserved for only a few people. I am grateful to him first.