http://www.tribstar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:05:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_201220549.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_201220549.html Purdue computer science professor Eugene Spafford had the best line about media coverage of Barack Obama’s extensive national security seminar in West Lafayette last week: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_197220455.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_197220455.html Would you like to see a terrific example of one of the worst things Americans are up against? Take a look at the reaction to this week’s New Yorker magazine cover. Note, I did not say, take a look at the cover. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:13:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_194221323.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_194221323.html In 1973, when I made my first trip to Northern California, I sent my parents in Terre Haute a large photo postcard of the Big Sur coast. On the back, I wrote, “God lives here.” Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:14:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_190231500.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_190231500.html London July 9, 2038 —The governing body of the Anglican Church in Britain voted today to join forces with the Roman Catholic Church to “use every resource within our great institutions, including shared worship,” to combat global poverty, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, human trafficking, “the ravages of environmental exploitation” and war. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_187211211.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_187211211.html Warning: This is an attack column.In the old days, before last weekend, it would have been just a newspaper essay in which a few observations and opinions were expressed about John McCain, the most famous American prisoner of the Vietnam War. Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:24:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_183212341.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_183212341.html The funniest thing happens when you drive the speed limit: You notice all the people who don’t. You also save a fair amount of gasoline Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:48:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_173215025.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_173215025.html While Barack Obama and John McCain are working out the ground rules for the next four months, it would be so great if they would agree to a moratorium on religious pandering. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:56:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_169195900.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_169195900.html The woman behind the desk was uncharacteristically tight and terse. If I didn’t know her, if I were some stranger who’d just come into her workplace for services, I might think, “Geez, what’s with her? Would it kill her to smile?”But I do know the woman, so I asked a question that’s fairly common around these parts just now: “Did you get any flooding?” Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:12:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_166221404.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_166221404.html Those of us whose fathers have left this mortal world can feel sort of useless on Father’s Day. No cards, gadgets or after-shave to buy. No heart-felt poem to deliver, no brunch to host, no Dad’s cheek to plant a kiss upon. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:19:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_162231153.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_162231153.html Sometimes I have this fantasy when I hear yet another smug know-it-all talk about the “irrelevance” of the mainstream news media — or “MSM,” as the abbreviated slur goes. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_156215537.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_156215537.html Even in an agricultural state like Indiana, a lot of us go to the supermarket, troll the aisles looking for dinner fixings, toss plastic-wrapped foodstuffs into our cart and think nothing more about our choices than their bottom line at the checkout. Sat, 31 May 2008 20:41:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_152204247.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_152204247.html The big attention-grabber this week was Scott McClellan’s just-published memoir, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.” Among the former presidential press secretary’s observations: Sat, 24 May 2008 19:38:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_145194024.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_145194024.html Dear Friends in San Francisco,We talk so often about life there, about the things I miss — the ocean, the ethnic mix, the fabulous food, the seagulls squeaking over downtown — but we don’t talk much about the things here that make Terre Haute such a good place to live. Tue, 20 May 2008 22:47:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_141224914.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_141224914.html First things first: Politicians aren’t the only folks who say things they intend one way, but which land on some people quite another way. Sunday’s column about Plaza North, I am told, “really offended” a number of the very people I am part of — Terre Haute North-enders who want our local shopping center to be the best it can be. Sat, 17 May 2008 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_138214437.html http://www.tribstar.com/stephanie_salter/local_story_138214437.html Oh, I had the most wonderful dream last week. I dreamed I picked up my Tribune-Star and read that a California call center company was coming to Terre Haute to open up shop and hire 600 local people.