Rep. Bob Behning: State is making strides in attracting teachers
The role of teachers in this building block is indelible. They help shape generations of children to become good citizens and the leaders of tomorrow.
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Claire Fiddian-Green: We can rethink training, recruiting, deploying teachers
Schools must be more intentional about recruiting from alternative teacher pipeline models.
Rima Shahid: Trust women to make decisions
I believe we have never faced a more consequential moment in the fight for women’s equity in the United States.
Mike Fichter: Indiana must act to protect babies
We have come a long way since 1973, in medical science, in our love and compassion for unborn babies, and in our work to care for and support pregnant mothers in crisis.
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and Dennis C. Sasso: Reproductive rights in Indiana: An open letter
Please, do not take us back to a time when abortion laws jeopardized women’s health.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Republicans are struggling to figure out what to do
The pro-life wing of the Indiana Republican Party has finally caught the car. Now let’s see if its members know how to drive.
Ed DeLaney: Poverty and chastity: A guide to the special session
Women need no longer decide for themselves and their families. The supermajority has taken on that responsibility.
U.S. Rep. Andre Carson: Business community can help fight for change
I must be frank: These shootings are a direct result of Republican policies that help dangerous, angry and unstable individuals buy or own guns, as well as their party’s unwavering loyalty to the gun lobby that finances their campaigns.
Pierre Atlas: Reasonable reforms should be discussed
The AR-15 and its numerous variants … are the most popular civilian rifles in the United States.
Rep. Ed DeLaney: Republican proposed solutions have little effect
The list of those blamed for the deaths in Uvalde grows apace.
The Rev. Charles Harrison: Gun violence is complex, multilayered problem
What saddens me is that the daily street violence does not get the same attention from the national media and elected officials as mass shootings in schools do, even though hundreds of children and youth of color have been killed by urban violence every year for the last 50 years.
Rep. Todd Huston: Status quo won’t fix state’s hospital cost crisis
The lack of urgency in addressing high hospital prices in Indiana by the vast majority of not-for-profit hospitals is intolerable.
Dennis Murphy: Solving problem takes providers, insurers, policymakers
IU Health has committed to align our pricing with national averages for commercial insurance by Jan. 1, 2025, generating more than $1 billion in savings to patients and payers.
Gloria Sachdev: Study shows it’s time to act on health care prices
Indiana prices are higher than those of all our neighboring states.
Jennifer Wagner Chartier: Knowing trans children will change everything
There in the halls of the Statehouse, face to face, it’s possible for a connection to occur.
Lauren Reichart Smith: Focus on real threats to women’s sports
The notion that including trans women will result in dominance is a red herring.
Katie Blair: Veto is legally, scientifically, morally right decision
Trans kids deserve to have the opportunity to be kids without government interference.
Micah Clark: The Legislature was right to pass girls’ sports bill
If the governor had legitimate and specific concerns about HB 1041 at any point during the legislative process, he could have asked the leadership to address those concerns.
Rep. Michelle Davis: Girls lose if science, common sense get benched
The performance gap isn’t because these boys had better access to training or resources; it’s biology.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Protected by the shield statute? You are media
A journalist by any other name is still a journalist.