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COVID, the Constitution and slow learners They rarely get it. Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston, R-Fishers, just announced that he tested positive for COVID-19. His diagnosis casts in doubt, once again, whether the Indiana General Assembly’s 2021 legislative session will begin as scheduled on Jan. 4 — and how it might be conducted when it does begin. Huston’s news came down around the same time that the nation learned that the elevated speaker of New Hampshire’s House of Representatives, Dick Hinch, had died of COVID. Hinch, a Republican, had spoken just one week before about how thri...