Gov. Holcomb issues executive order to prepare for solar eclipse to support emergency response needs Governor Eric J. Holcomb signed an executive order to support the anticipated needs of Indiana’s emergency response, transportation, communication, and critical infrastructure ... 03/28/2024 - 1:06 am | View Link
Gov. Holcomb signs bill limiting state public access counselor’s interpretation power Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, on March 18, signed House Bill 1338, which will limit how the state’s access counselor interprets public records and open meetings laws. 03/26/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
Gov. Holcomb vetoes Indiana lawmakers’ definition of ‘antisemitism’ House Enrolled Act 1002 would have codified into state law the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA’s) working definition of antisemitism, last updated in 2016, and classify ... 03/19/2024 - 7:37 pm | View Link
Gov. Holcomb vetoes antisemitism bill Holcomb vetoed a bill to expand protections against antisemitic rhetoric on college campuses, saying he doesn’t believe the bill goes far enough. 03/19/2024 - 1:50 pm | View Link
Holcomb signs bill into law limiting authority of public access counselor Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed a bill into law limiting how the state’s public access counselor can interpret public records and open meetings laws. House Bill ... 03/18/2024 - 2:38 pm | View Link
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.