GARRISON: When the issue is not the issue
No more than an hour had passed on that awful day at Sandy Hook Elementary School before the usual suspects began their mantra: The whole thing was because of the gun.
Home » Search
Search Results
14198 results for 'articles'
To refine your search through our archives use our Advanced Search
BOHANON: What to do with the homeless campers?
A word I like to introduce my students to is “intractable.” This is a fancy, 75-cent college word that means can’t be solved, can only be dealt with—as in, the problems of homelessness are intractable.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Youth violence is state health issue
Everyone knows you are not supposed to discuss taboo subjects such as religion and politics in the workplace.
MASSON: The economy is not a morality play
Americans in general and Hoosiers in particular like to see the economy as a morality play. If you are rich, it is because you are hard-working and clever. If you are poor, it is because you are lazy and stupid.
SIMPSON: ‘Our hopes and dreams are bound together’
Daily, I see politicians arguing, reciting their talking points, without facts. I hear political pundits repeating those talking points, urging on the political rhetoric.
KRULL: We’re all responsible for our government
It’s hard to tell when the notion began to sink in that too many Americans have forgotten the point of the American Revolution.
DAVIS: So far, so good at the Legislature
I had a happy Valentine’s Day visiting with members of the General Assembly.
SOUDER: Legislature reflects GOP dilemmas
Gov. Mike Pence doesn’t just want a tax cut for Hoosiers. A tax cut was foundational to his campaign and his philosophy of conservatism: Growth comes faster when individuals and corporations spend their own money, because it is more productive (leveraged better), more diversely spread (less likely to be bet on winners and losers), and more reflective of actual markets.
SHELLA: Nonvoters are real Hoosier citizens, too
Do the politicians care what nonvoters think? House Speaker Brian Bosma recently took issue with the WISH-TV/Ball State Hoosier Survey because, he said, it wasn’t a voter poll. When challenged, he said that he cares what everybody thinks, but the message he delivered was that the opinions of voters matter more than those of adults who don’t get to the polls.
SADLER: Put a justice complex on the docket
Something important is missing on planning desks of Indianapolis leaders as they contemplate mass transit, waterworks and other big-ticket projects. It is well past time for a strategy for a new criminal justice complex outside of downtown.
LEIGHTY: Forgo the tax cut and finish I-69
Arguably one of the most passionate and polarizing debates in the General Assembly this session is the allocation of the transportation budget. Gov. Mike Pence and many legislators agree that money should be spent on repairing deteriorating roads and constructing new highways.
ODLE: Gov. Pence, please keep my money
Most days I wish the government would take less of my money and let me use it to save, invest, donate or just spend frivolously. I figure I earned this money, it’s mine and I deserve to keep it, right?
MADISON: Tax-cut promises make cheap politics
Promising to cut taxes is not political leadership. It’s cheap and easy.