September 24, 2011
Brian A. Howey / Special to IBJIn addition to his clothes, confidentiality and dignity, he has been stripped of his committee chairmanships.
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September 24, 2011
Bill Taft / Special to IBJIf these funds are completely spent on infrastructure repairs or even enhancing service programs by capitalizing a new endowment,
we will miss an opportunity to attract a far greater investment in transforming our core city.
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September 24, 2011
John Mutz / Special to IBJUntil some reasonable change in the legislation is made, we will continue to have a system that is unfair and impossible to
enforce.
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September 24, 2011
Jake Bonifield / Special to IBJLibraries, like roads, are government where nearly everyone wants it.
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September 24, 2011
John Krull / Special to IBJIs it right to allow kids to suffer because of their parents's choices?
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September 24, 2011
Sue Swayze / Special to IBJChange is hard, for sure. But the stirring of citizens' souls in this country is exciting. "Take it back!" I shout.
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September 24, 2011
Anthony L. Fargo / Special to IBJHoage is correct that his office shouldn't be advising agencies on how to comply with the law, educating them, and also fining
them when they misbehave.
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September 24, 2011
Robert Vane / Special to IBJWhere would we be without the P.E. MacAllisters of the world? Not just in politics—and there are many Democrats about whom
we could ask the same question—but throughout all our society.
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September 24, 2011
Craig Ladwig / Special to IBJWe are left with the sobering realization that there is no lobby for free-market economics at the Statehouse.
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September 24, 2011
Bill Styring / Special to IBJMike Pence shouldn't pop any champagne corks, though. Indiana gubernatorial elections have a nasty habit of running counter
to national trends.
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September 24, 2011
Jennifer Wagner / Special to IBJCivility in politics isn't dead. You just have to find the middle ground of funny.
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September 10, 2011
Kathy Davis / Special to IBJFor Indiana to prosper, we need interesting work that provides value to the world.
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September 10, 2011
Jim Shella / Special to IBJNever mind that Conan got the title wrong. He was right about the voting record and, most important, he got a laugh.
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September 10, 2011
Ted Boehm / Special to IBJWe do have the benefit of thoughtful study, if not completely reliable data, to support some basic reform that will save the
state money and produce a fairer and more productive criminal justice system.
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September 10, 2011
David Harris / Special to IBJUrban school systems across the country are in crisis, but some individual urban schools are thriving.
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September 10, 2011
Teresa Meredith / Special to IBJThe entire school culture would be developed to improve expectations and accountability for both its students and community.
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September 10, 2011
Justin Kingsolver / Special to IBJFor leaders across our state to contribute to putting a college diploma out of reach for those who need it most is a social
injustice.
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September 10, 2011
Anita Y. Woudenberg / Special to IBJUnfortunately, Obama’s solution for uninsured young people, rather than to educate and promote this great option, is
to use that fact to justify imposing federal health insurance on everyone and to penalize those who don’t buy into the
federal program.
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September 10, 2011
John Ketzenberger / Special to IBJIt’s a timely reminder to ignore those who would rather hunker down, avoid risk and ride out the economic storm.
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September 10, 2011
Robin Winston / Special to IBJWe don’t need a statue of a slave to remind us of our history.
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September 10, 2011
Julia Vaughn / Special to IBJSatellite early voting is a no-brainer and it’s a shame Republicans are hiding behind security and fiscal red herrings,
since their concern is purely political; they simply believe early voting helps Democrats.
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September 10, 2011
Steve Campbell / Special to IBJI can’t escape stories on Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin or Donald Trump, but have to scour the Web to find a few words about
Joanne Sanders, Ryan Vaughn or Ed Coleman.
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September 10, 2011
Rex Early / Special to IBJBecause of a fair regulatory climate, in the last two years there has been an influx of companies moving to Texas. In fact,
in the last two years, approximately half of America’s new jobs are in Texas.
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August 20, 2011
Bill Taft / Special to IBJHistory actually shows that Republicans have been the authors of the largest publicly funded transportation projects in U.S.
history because they believed infrastructure investment was an important way government could be a catalyst for economic development.
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August 20, 2011
John Krull / Special to IBJThe reality is that we now have two political parties determined to go to Disneyland for the weekend. They just want to take
different groups and pay for the trip with different kinds of credit cards.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.