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Dan Schaetzle, Republican Member of the St. Joseph County Council, District C WRITTEN BY DAN SCHAETZLE HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM BY BECOMING A SUBSCRIBING MEMBER. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE A ONE TIME DONATION HERE. GRANGER, Ind. --...

Dan Schaetzle, Republican Member of the St. Joseph County Council, District C WRITTEN BY DAN SCHAETZLE HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM BY BECOMING A SUBSCRIBING MEMBER. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE A ONE TIME DONATION HERE. GRANGER, Ind. --...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 21ST, 2021 HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM BY BECOMING A SUBSCRIBING MEMBER. YOU CAN ALSO MAKE A ONE TIME DONATION HERE. MOSUL, Iraq, March 21st, 2006 — “Pop, pop, pop, ting!” As my Humvee filled with...

As it is pretty clear that Jack Colwell has run out of gas with his far from humorous lists, and his employer with The South Bend Tribune regularly gives new and clearer meaning to...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Look at what the GOP has accomplished and continues to accomplish in St. Joseph County. It's amazing. Republicans control the County Council, County Commissioners, Assessor, Clerk and more. We have a growing party with record-setting membership. Meanwhile, the Democrats are floundering and broke. Their message of sexualizing kids and destroying the economy is, expectedly, unpopular.

As the County Chair for the St Joseph Libertarian Party, I am a staunch advocate of conservative libertarian values. I believe in limited government, individual liberties, and free markets. This includes a severe bias against using tax money unnecessarily, which from a Libertarian viewpoint consists of almost any money that has been taken from taxpayers under the threat of force (if we don’t pay). Today, I am actually making the argument in favor of salary increases for the county clerk, county auditor, and county assessor in St. Joseph County. By aligning their compensation with comparable state-wide salaries, we can ensure fair remuneration, attract top talent, and foster a robust democratic system that benefits all residents.

I am often reminded of this quote from Frederick Douglass, “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” This quote has stood the testament of time and still rings true today.

Medical doctors tend to be highly respected – similar in ways to firefighters, police officers, and soldiers. Yet, just like the latter occupations, the field of medicine is dealt a black eye whenever individual practitioners violate bonds of trust or otherwise break rules governing their profession.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- To honor his service to the City of South Bend and St. Joseph County, this week, Mayor James Mueller gave the Key to the City to Health Officer Dr. Robert Einterz whose last day was on March 31st.

By Attorney General Todd Rokita Todd Rokita, Indiana Attorney General One of my favorite parts of serving as Indiana’s attorney general is talking to Hoosiers across our great state. At a recent stop near the city of...