Dana Black: An example where gerrymandering backfired
It is time for candidates to earn votes and let their policies stand or fall as they are presented to constituents.”
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Adrianne Slash: Let’s do better finding candidates for next election
We can raise voter turnout and hold inspiring and engaging elections while moving our city forward.
Steve Sanders: We have a living Constitution. Do we need the ERA?
Sex discrimination was widely accepted when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868.
Gary Varvel: Why this evangelical is not afraid of climate change
When I hear Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promote the Green New Deal and say we only have 12 years left, my eyes roll.
Ed DeLaney: Hoosier educators—walking out or just walking away?
There always will be pay differences between school districts. But the growing reliance on referendums to increase pay presents a novel threat.
Celestino-Horseman: Take an impeachment break and think about animals
We must make a commitment to helping animals, who are the weakest members of our society.
John McDonald: The Red Line—a future success or missed opportunity?
The public transportation industry is moving toward self-driving and autonomous capabilities at a rapid pace.”
Brad Rateike: Can you teach job candidates to be hungry?
I’ve grown a new appreciation for exposure to diverse, new and different people and activities outside my comfort zone.
Deborah Hearn Smith: We must learn lesson from history
We are able to justify and accept almost anything on a full stomach, warm home and secure employment.”
Pierre Atlas: Senators, your duty is to the Constitution
Many Republican members of the legislative branch are acting as if their job is to protect the leader of the executive branch.
Bill Oesterle: Population contraction means recruiting must change
In a world where every open job has, on average, fewer than one applicant, employers will be forced to abandon standardized skill requirements. They are going to have to move from a skills-first model to a talent-first model.
Curt Smith: Barr speech clarifies what’s at stake in 2020
William Barr’s Oct. 11 address at the Law School of Notre Dame University offers the clearest critique yet of the status and significance of the left’s decades-long assault on religious liberty.
Michael Leppert: Finding the best platform for activism is the key
I have long thought the private sector would end up playing a bigger role in gun safety than the government would. Not just because the private sector is more capable at some aspects of it, but also because government has become so incapable in general.
Shariq Siddiqui: Donor-advised funds shouldn’t be tool of hate
The real challenge we face is not about the instrumentality of a DAF. The real challenge is that there is hate, bigotry and prejudice in our country. We must find different ways to come together and educate society.
Andrew Ireland: Patients need right to control genetic information
Creating a property interest in a person’s genetic information helps foster an efficient market for information, encourage ethical and equitable research practices, and mitigate the inherent risks of the exposure of genetic information to the world.
Marshawn Wolley: Shifting needs as Indy moves to majority-minority city
The black community has been a sizable population in this city for much of its early development through the 19th and 20th centuries, while the Latinx community and Asian communities are relatively smaller and newer.
Deborah Daniels: Campaigns shouldn’t be about ‘fighting’
The point of this rhetoric is not necessarily to persuade additional people to the cause being advocated; it is to rally the already-convinced and bring them into the camp of the speaker (shouter).
Jim Shella: A former partisan is trying to make sure everyone votes
Moreau wants everyone who is eligible to get out and vote. The Indianapolis attorney is behind a large-scale effort to increase the number of Indiana voters in the 2020 election. It’s already underway.
Jennifer Wagner: Democrats need more money to win in Indiana
You have to raise enough money to show that you’re a serious contender. Once you hit that mark, and you’re able to pay for a poll that shows a path to victory, those who guard the gold are willing to give you the time of day and invest in your race.
Richard Feldman: Atrocities led to ethical standards for human trials
Their “medical” experiments punctuate Nazi Germany’s cruel, brutal and ruthless obsession to “cleanse” the world of Jews and other groups they considered unworthy of living.