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HETRICK: Thoughts on losing Lugar and his legacy of leadership

May 12, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Dick Lugar inspired good people and whetted their appetite for public service.
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HETRICK: Our daily diet of misinformation leads to bad decisions

April 21, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Some stories aren't reported on network news because they simply didn't happen.
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HETRICK: Mega Millions and taxes inspire daydream believers

April 7, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
In the midst of Mega Millions mania, statisticians were telling would-be bettors that the odds of winning the big jackpot were far lower than the odds of being struck by lighting.
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HETRICK: All the news that's fit to tweet, post and petition

March 24, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Ever the junkie for news, behind-the-scenes details, snarky comments and additional perspective—and increasingly unwilling to wait for an evening newscast or morning paper to get my fix—I often sit with my iPhone close at hand, checking feeds from Twitter and Facebook.
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HETRICK: How we can avoid a 'Handmaid's Tale' in the making

March 10, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
For the past few weeks, Washington has been buzzing about contraceptives. It’s to be expected from a dramatic comedy dripping with sex, religion, government and health insurance.
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HETRICK: Playing Pontius Pilate with the public's health

February 25, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Private clubs and private businesses are subject to all kinds of reasonable government measures. Why exclude smoking?
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HETRICK: Biggest Super Bowl perk was a dose of civic pride

February 11, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
As one commentator said, Indianapolis "crushed it."
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HETRICK: Here's a little ditty 'bout health insurance reform

January 21, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Just before Christmas, I received a nasty-gram in the mail from a firm called ORS.
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HETRICK: O say, can you see, by democracy's dimming light?Restricted Content

January 7, 2012
Bruce Hetrick

Had we applied Sen. Vaneta Becker's rules to “America the Beautiful” in 1976, George Carlin and I would, presumably, have owed the piper.

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HETRICK: Closing a door, opening a window in the New YearRestricted Content

December 24, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
But has a liberal arts education instilled the ability to adapt well past mid-career?
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HETRICK: You gotta stay bright to be the light of the world

December 10, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
When you take center stage, expect your blemishes to show...and be discussed.
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HETRICK: Super Committee fails Constitutional test

November 26, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
Are we providing for the common defense when parents have to supplement their sons’ and daughters’ military equipment?
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HETRICK: Thank God the election's over, but what now?

November 12, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
Insight into the aftermath of campaign 2011.
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HETRICK: Four things considered at the mayoral ballot box

October 22, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
Four stories to consider at the mayoral ballot box in November.
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HETRICK: Ten tips on the way out the entrepreneurial door

October 8, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
In the hope that someone out there is hesitant to hang out a shingle and build a business, I’ll surprise you with this: Try it.
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HETRICK: Ten years after 9/11, keep doing what you do

September 10, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
On this 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, we’re reprinting Bruce Hetrick’s Notions column from Sept. 9, 2002.
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HETRICK: Symphony's weather policy is 'When in doubt, get them out'

August 20, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
I’d want my loved one’s life to take on additional meaning by seeing that the lessons learned from this tragedy result in changes that save the lives of others.
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HETRICK: The fools who tarnish our shining city on the hill

August 6, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
If there are congressional leaders 'aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities,' they're not showing it.
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HETRICK: Harry Potter and the 13-year literary love affair

July 23, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
When "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" debuted in the United States in September 1998, we were there on Day One.
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HETRICK: Finding the "one thing" on the Stratford stages

July 9, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
In the middle of Onterio farming country, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival found its one thing.
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HETRICK: Does then and there top here and now?

June 25, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
In a meeting last week, I found myself reminiscing with my first client about a conversation we’d had with then-Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith 17 years ago.
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HETRICK: The slings and arrows of making things upRestricted Content

June 11, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
This week, we dealt with the trial of alleged child-murderer Casey Anthony, the tribulations of congressman-cum-confessor Anthony Weiner, the revisionist American history of professor Palin, and assorted other tales.
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HETRICK: Please, dear sales clerk, play the age card for me

May 21, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
Under the new law, only those who “reasonably appear to be less than 40 years old” will be required to show ID when buying alcohol. But those may prove to be fighting words.
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HETRICK: Sitting at the polling place, wishing you were here

May 7, 2011
Bruce Hetrick
A dismal percentage of eligible voters showed up to vote in the May 3 municipal elections.
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HETRICK: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' takes on federal deficit

April 23, 2011
Bruce Hetrick

One “Superstar” scene always reminds me of our entitlement society—and how some react to the notion of helping “the least among us.”

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  1. we love that we were right in our predictions for the outcome of Tony's boondoggle. We aren't negative, we are positive that the league that never has will continue to blow chunks and stink up the place

  2. I was initially excited to learn that this wasn't rubber-stamped, but if all that is required is to add some shrubs and some "window dressing" over the first floor of the garage, then I'd call it a waste of everyone's time. It should be noted that the Hearing Examiner is a DMD employee who reports to the same administrator as the DMD staff planner who recommended approval of the garage and whose report said that the requirement for ground-floor retail had been "satisfied". Better luck with appealing the inevitable approval at the MDC, where the commissioners are appointed by the Mayor, City Council, and County Commissioners, thus, presumably not all obligated to facilitate the administration's plans.

  3. Wheat Thins, when paired with chocolate ice cream!

  4. About the same.

  5. New airport, new Lucas Oil Stadium, expanded convention center, $30,000,000 Pacer gift, Stupid City Way Project, Broad Ripple Parking Garage $ Giveaway, Money blown on lethal bike lanes. The list is endless..

    We have complete morons in City Government with grafter buddies sitting in the wings also stealing parking meter revenue. Go to
    www.adavceindiana.com and read about Chicago Parking Meter Corruption.

    It's all theft of taxpayer resources and complete lack of financial stewardship and devoid of integrity.

    I would just like for basic city services please.

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