HETRICK: Millennial essays reveal wide range of pain
As a baby boomer, I sometimes hear my peers dissing millennials. I can assure you: The world’s in good hands.
Bruce Hetrick
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HETRICK: For bicentennial, bring on good, bad, ugly
The Hoosier cynic in me said that what Indiana needs to do over the next half century is catch up with things the rest of the world accomplished 50 years ago—things like local government reform, competitive-with-the-nation wages that can support families, antidiscrimination laws that provide equal protection for all of our citizens, and protection of our state’s reputation from standup comedians and seven-figure PR firms.
HETRICK: Who were those people on my ballot?
Count me among a minuscule minority, but as a newly relocated resident of a small Indiana town, I really wanted to vote in this month’s midterm election.
HETRICK: A final notion for friends and readers of this column
I’ve tried to simplify the complicated and deliver the truth persuasively. Thanks for reading.
HETRICK: If you rely on air and water, you’ll want to read this
At the Statehouse, the crime in progress is voluntary bondage—not in the sexual sense, but what Dictionary.com calls “the state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control.”
HETRICK: You say you want a reputation? Don’t do it this way
We can now measure the dollar value of a good reputation. Unfortunately, Indiana is doing a lot to hurt its.
HETRICK: After storm, plowing through a pseudo-libertarian snow job
“I am capable of deciding for myself what and where and when I can come and go,” said a Facebook friend. But when does liberty get in the way of public safety?
HETRICK: After 50 years of silence, a wish list for St. Nicholas
You might not remember me. Last time I wrote, I probably requested a Johnny Seven O.M.A., a “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” gun set or a Monkees album.
HETRICK: You can’t achieve velocity with one foot on the brake
People want not only to visit downtown, but also to live there. But if we are not regarded for livability, how can Indianapolis thrive?
HETRICK: Don’t just be thankful; this year thank and think of others
In a world overdosing on skepticism, cynicism, pessimism, and criticism…there are worse thigns than a month of thankful thinking.
HETRICK: Will Hoosier honchos buy Chicken Little’s hokum?
Will the sky fall if Indiana accepts marriage equality? Ask Henny penny and Ducky Lucky.
HETRICK: A small-town ode to what seems like a carefree autumn
The leaves are falling fast in Pendleton. But the news is very different than what’s reported in bigger cities.
HETRICK: Eight easy-to-adopt employee communication lessons
My students have been studying employee communications. Naturally, they remember and report bad examples far more than good ones.
HETRICK: There she is, Miss America, an ideal answer to racism
For a few ugly Americans emboldened by social media, it was an opportunity to judge Miss Davuluri. But not by the content of her character.
HETRICK: If you want to save Syrians, produce a viral video
Alas, there’s no viral video personalizing the problem. The call to act is coming from the top down.
HETRICK: Here’s my answer to the governor’s fundraising letter
“With your support,” he said, “we can make Indiana an example for other states.” My B.S. detector blared.
HETRICK: Throwing the book at civic illiteracy
If assigned comparison-and-contrast lessons between Zinn’s history and other texts, students might enter college better able to question, discern, reason, shape opinions, defend those opinions and compromise.
HETRICK: It’s time to put money behind our crime-prevention push
New Haven should have everything going for it. Yet, in 2010, FBI data showed it to be the fourth most dangerous city in the United States
HETRICK: Two friends of a different color walk into an Indiana bar
If Indiana puts a constitutional ban on gay marriage, it will be one of the only times the constitution is used to deny a right.
HETRICK: Mundane matters of middle-class homebuyers
The twisting, turning, maddening tale of our broken oven doesn’t quite measure up in the grand scheme of things.