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Op-ed: Whether a newly minted grad or a seasoned pro, consider a career in public service Claudia Cummings Replay Video UP NEXT As the pomp and circumstance of commencement ceremonies echo across Indiana, graduates are planning their first leaps into their professional lives. Many may gravitate to pursuits in health care, technology or the corporate world. But given the events of the past year, I would submit that now is the time for our best and brightest to consider using their skills for rewarding careers in public service. The National Commission on Military, National, ...

Claudia Cummings View Comments As the pomp and circumstance of commencement ceremonies echo across Indiana, graduates are planning their first leaps into their professional lives. Many may gravitate to pursuits in health care, technology or the corporate world. But given the events of the past year, I would submit that now is the time for our best and brightest to consider using their skills for rewarding careers in public service. The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service defines public service as “a personal commitment of time, energy, and talent to a mission tha...

Letter: What needs to be said Evansville Courier & Press Thanks to Big Jake: My turn, your turn, anybody’s turn, nobody’s turn; I’m going to say this because it needs to be said.  So wind turbines freeze up, solar cells get covered in snow and don’t work well in cloudy weather. Storage batteries lose forty percent of their capacity in cold weather. So an electric car has only 60 percent in cold climates. It takes a lot of power to get an airplane off the ground; would take a mighty big battery to get it in the air. 

That kind of interference would have been stopped cold in an earlier era, though the rest of the state never loved the big city. Coming from Indianapolis was a liability in any statewide political race. Mayors of Indianapolis routinely lost statewide races. Mayor Bill Hudnut lost a 1990 race for secretary of state, in what he and Republican supporters saw as a stepping stone to run for governor. Mayor Steve Goldsmith lost a race for governor in 1996, after putting the city on the national map. One Indianapolis political figure overcame the handicap. Mitch Daniels had never run for office but ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than 60 Indianapolis business and civic group leaders have...