EDITORIAL: Indiana legislators fail us again
Prohibition died 82 years ago. Indiana’s maddening blue laws live on.
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EDITORIAL: Circle Centre mall needs help
The city should lead stakeholders to turn around one of the downtown’s jewels.
EDITORIAL: Welcome new sharing services, keep the protection
The genie of service businesses consumers can connect with on their smartphones—like ride-sharing and room-sharing—can’t be put back in the bottle. Particularly popular with millennials, such services are here to stay. Indiana would be wise to create a welcome business climate for them, while protecting the safety of local residents. Legislation wending its way through the General Assembly looks on track to maintain that balance.
EDITORIAL: Refocus outrage over Pence’s Just In news agency to watchdog work
Critics of Gov. Mike Pence’s proposed news service, Just IN, should now redirect their energy in support of three bills in the Legislature that would encourage government agencies to operate in the open—a critical ingredient for a factual, fair and independent press.
EDITORIAL: Mike Pence on track with career education
The governor is putting money behind his rhetoric, proposing a $40 million increase in funding for career and vocational programs. By 2020, he wants to see a fivefold increase in students graduating with industry-recognized credentials.
EDITORIAL: Election problems need to be fixed
Indianapolis election laws need a couple of major revisions, and both come down to ensuring integrity in local politics.
EDITORIAL: State Legislature needs reformers
Local government in Indiana is still bloated, but governor and legislators look the other way.
EDITORIAL: Indianapolis Museum of Art earned its firestorm
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has had a rough month, and the arrows it is taking are self-inflicted.
EDITORIAL: Curry, Thomas should explain Bennett investigation
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry and state Inspector General David Thomas should acknowledge the mysteries swirling around an investigation into former state schools chief Tony Bennett and explain to Hoosiers exactly what happened, and how it won’t happen again.
EDITORIAL: End the quarreling between Ritz, reformers
The governor should appoint the education chief, making the state’s top elected official responsible for public education—in 2020.
EDITORIAL: They’re public universities
No one will win the desperate arms race for out-of-state students.
EDITORIAL: Finishing touches for Ballard legacy
Mayor Greg Ballard may have begun his tenure as Indy’s top elected official with the label “accidental mayor.” But Ballard’s legacy will go well beyond the circumstances of his upset victory in 2007.
EDITORIAL: Autonomy crucial for IPS turnaround
With the election of three reform-minded candidates to the board of Indianapolis Public Schools, hope is renewed—once again—that the long-struggling district will become a city asset.
EDITORIAL: Westfield officials didn’t play it straight
The public deserved better disclosure over indoor soccer facility.
EDITORIAL: Library did its homework
Capital projects plan makes sense, and should be approved by the City-County Council.
Transportation takes many forms
Perhaps the Indiana Department of Transportation should be renamed the Indiana Department of Highways and Bridges.
EDITORIAL: Digital billboards could fill coffers
The city should put another bargaining chip on the table: revenue.
EDITORIAL: Simon isn’t the problem
Recent criticism of Washington Square decision is misdirected.
EDITORIAL: Public deserves full disclosure
The city might be negotiating a sweet deal for Indianapolis taxpayers over the proposed $500 million justice center to be built across from the Indianapolis Zoo on the former site of General Motors’ stamping plant. Or, taxpayers might be getting a bad deal.