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Baggott’s early years were marked by the kind of pain, frustration, and failure that would wreck anyone not equipped with his tenacious belief that better things are around the corner.

“They’re afraid of competition. They don’t want a charter school cannibalizing their student base.”

“You’re going to be shocked,” says one advocate. “I think we have a realistic chance, as long as we do a good job with the summer study. I think we can get it as early as the next General Assembly.”

I had a landlocked childhood.

“It occurs to me that nations are a lot like families: Without fresh and diverse infusions of genes, the strain weakens.”

“That Kelsea decided to get married in Danville and not Georgia makes me love her all the more, but then I always look favorably upon people who save me from driving a thousand miles.”

“You never forget the fear. One camper might say, ‘I’m going to have the LeFort procedure,’ and I’ll think, Yeah, I had that three times. That’s why I’m there. I’m the light at the end of the tunnel.”

Is Curtis Hill the next Mike Pence?

“You have a wide array of personalities who celebrate as a community. People from so many different backgrounds gather together, and for that day, become a family.”

“I tell my nephew and his friends the story of My Great Hike often, hoping they might be moved by my dogged determination. Truth be told, though, I sense in them a disdain for my story, as if it were made up.”

A field guide to Red Line haters, who lost the war but will likely keep up their battle cries.

This was the story that “kept circling through my mind.”

Breaking the USA Gymnastics sex-abuse scandal.

“Young people don’t understand that if death cleaning is to ever take hold in our country, they must do their part and take our crap. Otherwise, the whole system breaks down.”

“We’re going to make one last run at it,” Ozdemir said of the Indy Eleven. “Something has to change.”