NOCERA: The tables are turned on Rupert Murdoch
One feature of Murdoch’s career is that he’s never played by the rules that apply to other businessmen.
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DOWD: A tough judge shames Clemens’ lawyers
It was such a chuckleheaded move that no one was sure whether the prosecutors had forgotten the judge’s ruling or were trying to sneak the testimony through a back door.
KRUGMAN: No good reason to let bankers off easy
The arguments that officials are reportedly making for a quick, bank-friendly settlement of the mortgage-abuse scandal don’t make sense.
BROOKS: The historic opening blown by Republicans
For many legislators, the purpose of being in Congress is not to pass laws. It’s to create clear contrasts you can take into the next election campaign.
FRIEDMAN: Generational clashes rise from debt woes
Indeed, if there is one sentiment that unites the crises in Europe and America it is a powerful sense of “baby boomers behaving badly …
STYRING: Be grateful for the Wabash & Erie debacle
The Wabash & Erie Canal Co. is responsible for how the Indiana constitution restricts what our governments can do with government debt.
WAGNER: Sick and tired of worn Hoosier stereotypes
Let’s trumpet our rich sports history, our top-tier university system, and our manufacturing and logistics infrastructure.
MAHERN: Public library board is a Byzantine mess
IPS and the ex-officio county commissioners cannot raise a dime for the library. Yet they appoint five of the seven members of the library board.
MYERS: The life-saving benefits of working together
We often forget that as a society there are real advantages to working (and investing) together for a common purpose.
MUTZ: Hoping reform chic sinks into the culture
It was the biggest turnout for an education event I have ever seen in Indiana.
LAGWIG: Here’s a pol who hires honestly and pays taxes
The firefighter and police unions set up pickets outside his home. He was re-elected in no small part as a result of his training as a Marine artillery officer.
FARGO: There’s a place for secrecy in government
There are slippery slopes, camels’ noses under tents, etc., that we fear will become too common if we budge on our opposition to secrecy. But secretly (oops), we also know that government has to keep some things quiet to keep us safe.
RUSTHOVEN: Coats, Lugar steering clear of extremes
Some in the GOP—quite unlike President Reagan, whose mantle they claim—prefer striking poses to striking a deal to achieve the possible.
FERGUSON: States’-rights crowd hurts small people
The debate over Medicaid funding and Planned Parenthood is about the access of poor people to health care. And about the right of the state of Indiana to assert the power to say where poor people can receive such health care services.
BONIFIELD: Bad laws now costing taxpayers in court
The focus of this session should have been on improving the economy and creating jobs. Instead, money, time and energy were wasted on red herrings.
KRULL: An ode to journalists felled by tech, economy
For many of the journalists whose jobs have fled or who are just barely hanging on, it is as if they are pilgrims whose church has abandoned them.
SWAYZE: Indiana needs a stronger chief executive
People are looking for accountability from elected officials these days—not just in Indiana but across the country.
HOWEY: Bauer, other aged House Dems should go
Thus, out of this blood, sweat, angst and smoke, we learned that this past spring, Bauer actually contemplated a run … for governor!
MEREDITH: Diplomas don’t guarantee mastery of work or life skills
A diploma cannot guarantee commendable performance in college, respectable employment or even success in life.
HARRIS: We need a system to make high school diplomas count
Unfortunately, too many students who make it through high school aren’t well prepared for what comes next.