Letter: Civility is a virtue
Civility is seen as a vice instead of a virtue and creating an environment of xenophobia and nationalism to gain short term policy wins is unwisely lauded.
Letters to the Editor
Articles
Letter: Democrats divide us by harping on diversity
True equality will never occur until we concentrate on electing the most qualified person regardless of sex, race or sexual preference.
Letter: Cigarette taxes slippery slope
Tripling the tax on a pack of cigarettes and giving it to Legislators and administrators is folly. It just gives them more money to waste
Letter: Red Line Construction—The pain will be worth it
As one of the 25 most-visited museums in North America, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is a peer to museums in cities where visitors expect to have easy access to them via transit. With the Red Line, Indianapolis will meet those expectations.
Letter: Thanking mentors is good practice
A mentor relationship is unique and often incredibly special—a simple thank you goes a long way.
Letter: Please vote, and take your kids along
You may not think your vote can make a difference, but it does.
Letter: For Monument Circle, an idea and a complaint
One reader says city must deal with homeless population at Circle; another says look to Holland, Michigan, as a model.
Letter: Nickel Plate plan ignores public will
Most people would support a trail that leaves the tracks intact. But they reject a vision of the right of way’s “destiny” that involves pop-up shops, drone zones and aromatic gardens.
Letter: Kavanaugh will be impartial Supreme Court judge
Apparently Judge Kavanaugh’s six or so FBI background checks are not enough for Sheila Suess Kennedy.
Letter: Downtown disrupted by scooter anarchy
As a driver I was appalled by the total disregard for safety and rules of the road the scooter riders had.
Letter: Look at potential of individual immigrants
It is our loss if we do not open our eyes and see individual immigrants for who they are and what they can do as Americans, if we give them the chance.
Letter: Column nailed our political dysfunction
This nation needs exactly what Nate Feltman called for in his column about Mitch Daniels.
Letter: Media elevates fringe politics
My life experience tells me that nearly all concerns can be addressed by people actually listening and conversing with each other
Letter: Transit advocates alarmed by lack of vision
Recent media accounts missed the real story on Fishers and Noblesville’s selfish plan to remove the rail tracks that run all the way to downtown Indianapolis (aka the Nickel Plate Railroad or State Fair train tracks) but uncovered a void in regional transit leadership.
Letter: We need comprehensive oral health plan
If we are serious about improving the oral health status for all Hoosiers, stakeholders and policymakers must engage to create and fund contemporary solutions.
Letter: IPS surplus depleted by state cuts, inflation
For a district with an annual budget of about $260 million, it is easy to understand that steadily decreasing state revenues, inflation, a long-overdue increase to teacher pay and holding the cost of employee benefits neutral would quickly deplete an $8 million surplus from the prior year.
Letter: Help foreign students help our state economy
Paying more attention to, and providing incentives to, those talented foreign students who attend universities in the U.S. seems clearly a good idea
Letter: Success requires setting race aside
My experience has taught me to value everyone, and truthfully, there is only one race, and it’s the human race.
LETTER: There’s no tariff tooth fairy
Really good article on the interventionist cycle by Bohanon & Curott on Aug. 3.
Letter: Ball State failed its alumni
The Ball State trustees’ decision keep John Schnatter’s name on the Center for Entrepreneurship
is counter to the basic, Hoosier values of the university and state that we love.