Deborah Daniels: Addressing poverty is everyone’s responsibility
A significant segment of our population is being left behind.
A significant segment of our population is being left behind.
Strong opinions were expressed, and calls were made for immediate changes in the merit board, but we did not experience violence.
The country is suffering from inefficiency on the right and intransigence on the left.
My question is not whether we are a player, but why any of the other finalist cities even have a chance at this prize.
Our humility may serve us well, if we can just avoid the strong temptation to undersell ourselves.
Athletes must have a safe reporting channel. And above all, they must be believed.
Having policies against harassment is useless without a commitment to enforcing those policies.
We are all better off because Dick Lugar has spent his entire adult life serving his fellow citizens.
The whole point of the book is to make people uncomfortable as we confront a past that helps to explain a great deal about our present.
Let us never seek to erase the signs of a past we must remember, in order to avoid repeating our collective sins.
Our country was founded on the right of people—even purveyors of hateful thoughts—to express themselves peacefully.
I agree in concept with John Lott’s “more guns, less crime” theory, based on data indicating that violent crime decreases when states are required to issue gun permits to law-abiding citizens. But I don’t see any need for the general public to own semi-automatic weapons.
People no longer have to hear the voices of those with whom they disagree—and they rarely force themselves to listen.
You can’t increase wages significantly while also erasing the deficit.
Occasionally, something has happened in the new Justice Department administration to give me pause.
Early brain development is crucial: In just the first two years of a child’s life, neurons in the brain are frantically connecting to achieve the level of cognition necessary to live a successful life.
Jim McClelland will focus on reducing the number of deaths from overdoses, expanding access to evidence-based treatment for those who are addicted, and reducing exposure of Hoosiers to opioids.
Dean Harvey was a giant to those of us who had the privilege of learning from him. His lectures were a wealth of valuable information about how law was actually practiced.
Republicans warned in 2010 that a big-government approach based on mandates, excessive regulation and redistribution would be doomed to failure. Yet the Democrats marched on.
We’ve long bemoaned the quality of our bus system; but truth be told, we have failed to invest in it. Other needs, such as public safety, have been viewed as more pressing. At this point, we rank 86th in the country for transit investment per capita out of the 100 largest regions.