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High school football playoffs started innocently enough

Did you hear the one about the time the high school football team in Indiana flew to play another high school football team in Indiana? It’s 1973, and football is the little brother in Indiana. There are no Indianapolis Colts. No Lucas Oil Stadium, nor RCA Dome. The high school season is over by early […]

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Gov. Bowen’s two terms led to Washington

Otis Bowen, who became the first physician to lead the federal government’s largest department, Health and Human Services, lived a long and rich life that included service as the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and two terms as one of the state’s most popular governors. Bowen was born in 1918 near Rochester, where […]

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HOLT: Freight railroads grow economy

Indiana is home to one of the largest rail infrastructures in the nation. Not only do freight railroads deliver the things we depend on each day, but they are also an economic development engine.

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