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He has raised and spent nearly $1,700 on signs, business cards, buttons and pamphlets in his quest to get on the Center Grove school board. His spending pales in comparison to other local candidates for countywide offices, some of which have come close to spending $8,000 in their election bids.
As Republican John T. Young and Democrat Michael Reddick vie for the Indiana House District 47 seat, their focus will be on improving education, making school funding more efficient and finding better ways to gauge if schools and students are succeeding. Issues such as fixing Indiana's infrastructure and addressing growing addiction problems among Hoosiers are also important to the candidates.
A lunch invitation from the president of the University of Indianapolis was a special enough occasion for a pair of Johnson County residents. But neither Dr. Robert Kopecky nor William Van Deman expected to be honored with the highest recognition given in the state of Indiana.