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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Getting dirty helps improve our communities

From the cocoon of my office, I can look out the window and see that spring is slowly creeping back into our corner of Northwest Indiana.

Faith exhibited in many diverse ways in region

To be given the task of writing about the state of faith in Northwest Indiana is a daunting task at best. To sum up, in a few paragraphs and words, the diversity, scope and vitality of faith in our corner of God’s world is somewhat akin to essaying the majesty of Lake Michigan by viewing it …

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: After slogging through 2012, Christmas reunites us

As a keen observer of the painfully obvious, I cannot help but take note that Christmas has once again come to Northwest Indiana.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: I'll strive to listen more, spout off less

My father was a man of great wisdom, most often conveyed in simple phrases that still strike home to me years after he said them.

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: United at Christmas by the cry of a baby

Christmas is a time when we allow ourselves to wallow in sweet sentiment, nostalgia and tradition. This year, as with the past several, my Christmas season started with my own personal tradition — shivering in line at Best Buy at 8:30 p.m. Thanksgiving night. Yes, I am one of those idiots wh…

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Exorcise Lake County's ghosts of public corruption

October is here again. The air is cooler, the leaves are starting to turn, and my beloved Bears are giving me heart palpitations. Of course, October is also Halloween season, and for me (and apparently for many other middle-aged adolescents) that is a fun, spooky time -- a time to break out …

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Crown Point schools in trouble? Not on my watch!

Brushing aside fears that a book report I had neglected in the seventh grade had finally come back to haunt me, I appeared in the "big" office to find I was there to discuss the funding crisis involving Crown Point schools and a tax referendum on the May ballot.