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Showdown at the Cracker Barrel
As Primary Election Day approaches, Whitewater Community Television is doing a great community service by partnering with the Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce to broadcast debates between...
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Dave Snow for Mayor
I’ve posted on this site about the current Richmond city election races and some of the candidates involved, and I’ve tried to comment without waving the flag of any particular party or candidate. I...
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Coworking Space
Does Richmond need a coworking space? I think it does. If you’re not familiar with the term, a coworking space is a shared work environment where people who are often doing different things for...
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Poetry of Place
My friend and Richmond resident Aaron Nell has been, for many years now, exploring the “poetry of place” – poems and poetic elements, historic and modern, of specific geographical locations around the...
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Primary election voter resources round-up
I’d hoped to write more here about the candidates, issues and conversations in this primary election, but here we are on the eve of Election Day…so this post will be a roundup of some of the great...
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What we leave behind
All too often, I see someone walking or driving around Richmond carelessly leave a piece of trash behind. Thrown out of their vehicle window. Tossed onto the sidewalk. Flicked into the grass. Cigarette...
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Where do you get your news?
Where do people living in Richmond get their news and information about the community? What sources do they use to understand what’s happening here, and form ideas and opinions about those happenings?...
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Parking
Early in my time working in downtown Richmond, I got a ticket for parking my car in the garage with expired plates. I’d been a little too busy starting a business and had neglected the renewal, so I...
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Prophets Fest
For seven years now, family-friendly music festival Prophets Fest has attracted many hundreds of people from around the region to a beautiful local farm just south of Richmond. Once there, they camp,...
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Time to Choose
It’s time to choose who will be the next Mayor of Richmond, Indiana. Over a year ago I wrote about the things I’m looking for in Richmond’s next Mayor. Since then, we’ve had an exciting campaign...
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Hope for a new time
The Reverend Kelly Burk, who also happens to be my wife, offered these words of invocation at today’s (lovely, well-attended, energizing, inspiring) inauguration of Richmond’s elected officials: I...
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A push to publish
If you’re involved in community improvement efforts in Richmond, it probably means you go to lots of meetings. Planning meetings, board meetings, government meetings, brainstorming meetings, project...
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Civility and respect
This editorial from Steve Rabe is worth your time: Needed: Civility and respect in local politics. We must bring back an atmosphere of civility, mutual respect and cooperation to politics in general,...
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Help wanted, Director of IT
The City of Richmond needs to hire a Director of Information Technology. The position description is here, applications go to mayorsoffice@richmondindiana.gov as noted here. The person in this role...
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Thank you, Sally
Former Richmond Mayor Sally Hutton died yesterday. I followed Mayor Hutton’s political career since arriving in Richmond. It always struck me how accessible, genuine and forward-thinking she was in her...
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Trying something different
From today’s Pal-Item, local leaders are willing to try something different when it comes to helping people addicted to drugs. We’re used to a lot of the rhetoric about drugs, drug addiction and...
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A familiar byline returns
You may know that veteran Palladium-Item reporter Bill Engle retired from his position at the newspaper near the end of 2015. If you followed and appreciated his journalistic endeavors as much as I did...
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Why did I stay in Richmond?
A local student writing a research paper recently asked me a series of questions about my life here, including “why did you stay in Richmond?” It’s a good question that I’ve been asked many times over...
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Rigging elections in Wayne County?
There’s talk on the presidential election trail about whether the upcoming fall elections could be rigged to favor one outcome or another. It’s perhaps tempting to dismiss this as conspiracy theory...
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Health insurance standoff is bad for business
There’s a standoff between Reid Health and two area health insurance providers, Anthem and MDwise. Unless it’s resolved quickly, individuals purchasing health insurance outside of an employer’s group...
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