Opinion

Last year we spent a lot of time talking about the importance of education as many teachers across Indiana headed to the Statehouse for the Red for Ed movement. In 2020, the Greene County Daily World wants to take a moment to honor our teachers and continue the discussion about the importance of education and the classroom leaders who prepare our youth for the future...

Greene County is a very giving, loving and supportive place. People here come together to support others in a myriad of ways, like gatherings held to raise funds and provide comfort to the family of Madi Moore and the many prayer circles organized to ask God to give Madi and her family strength, the yearly fish fry fundraiser held by the Knights of Columbus held to benefit several local groups such as Greene County Special Olympics, the annual Civitan toy giveaway and free community dinner by the Linton Community Group at Saron Church and the decision by Mutual Bank of Bloomfield to forego giving trinkets away during the Bloomfield Apple Festival, instead using the money they would have spent on said trinkets to give donations to the top three county nonprofits garnering the most votes by visitors to the bank’s Apple Festival booth.. ...

Most Americans are bad at recycling. According to theweek.com, in 2018, America’s recycling system broke down. For years, China was the world’s top importer of recyclable plastic waste, importing more than two-thirds of global plastic waste. But, on the last day of 2017, the Chinese government issued new rules so restrictive that shipments of waste into China for recycling effectively came to a halt, meaning the U.S. had to deal with all its unwanted paper, plastic, and glass on its own...