MEREDITH: Let’s not be so quick to abandon schools in peril January 4, 2012 The state is failing our schools and then punishing the very schools that carry the heaviest burden.
HARRIS: Takeover threats have a way of moving the needle January 4, 2012 With the state continuing to apply pressure on districts to improve student achievement, it’s time for bold new ideas.
FRIEDMAN: We’re out of Iraq, but will pluralism root? January 4, 2012 Now every other Arab democracy movement is trying to replicate it—without a U.S. midwife.
SOWELL: Focus on the future instead of Newt’s past January 4, 2012 We have to play the hand we were dealt.
STOSSEL: The corporate perspective on Obamacare January 4, 2012 When countries move to a government-funded system, taxes rise to crushing levels, as they have in Europe.
NOCERA: OPEC, NCAA aren’t all that different January 4, 2012 The NCAA’s real role is to oversee the collusion of university athletic departments.
CAMPBELL: Taking in the enormity of the Super Bowl January 4, 2012 There is but one event that all of America sits down to experience together.
KINGSOLVER: College students need tax holiday for books January 4, 2012 A clear disparity exists between Indiana’s brick-and-mortar textbook retailers and their online counterparts.
WINSTON: Marion County is key to state Dems in ’12 January 4, 2012 In 2011, we witnessed what happens when Republicans cut into the Democratic margin in Marion County.
SHELLA: Democrats will reorganize — eventually January 4, 2012 They are wasting their ammunition on each other.
EARLY: Thanks, John, for the Japanese auto plants January 4, 2012 Japan is now Indiana’s No. 1 international partner and a good friend.
MARCUS: Let’s do away with child labor laws, too January 4, 2012 Many parents would joyfully let their 14-year-olds become roofers, if it meant more money for meth.
SEAY: Dominion theology bounces off Hoosiers January 4, 2012 Advocates of dominion theology find ranking Indiana Republicans to be lukewarm politically and religiously.
KETZENBERGER: ‘Because we can’ is the wrong reason January 4, 2012 Lawmakers are wasting their time if they spend a single minute on anything but bills meant to improve business conditions.
DAVIS: Crack down on employees who ruin IPS January 4, 2012 Separate the teachers and administrators who aren’t serving our students. Fire them now.
WOUDENBERG: Put more effort into crime prevention January 4, 2012 Instead of solely finding a way to build more cellblocks, the focus should be on how to not need more.
VAUGHN: Indictment reveals rotten culture at IURC January 4, 2012 The Hardy/Duke scandal has left a dark stain of impropriety.
BOEHM: Nipping entry-level corruption in the bud January 4, 2012 There is no serious vetting of candidates for lower office.
City signs off on Celadon tax abatements January 4, 2012 The abatements will help the company build a $3.4 million, 36,000-square-foot office building at its far-east-side headquarters. Celadon also plans to add 100 jobs.
Columbia City company plans to add 106 jobs January 4, 2012 Impact CNC, a production machining company, plans to add the jobs in northeastern Indiana as part of a $12.8 million expansion.