LETTER: Simplify the tax code
Itemized deductions create discrimination among taxpayers and complicates the system.
Letters to the Editor
Articles
LETTER: Lucas estate decision leaves victims
At the very least, events already booked should be able to go forward.
LETTER: Housing concept isn’t new
The community might not be aware that Partners in Housing has been using Housing First as its guiding principle for well over a decade.
LETTER: Free speech rights should extend to work
Employees should not be asked to hold their tongues, or otherwise be someone they are not when at work for fear of losing their job. Politics is part of who each of us are. It is a manifestation of our values and our social conscious.
LETTER: Zoning editorial off base
There is no indication that Indiana’s drainage statutes are inadequate.
LETTER: Keep tiny house parked
Tiny houses should stay in your back yard, at the lake or in the woods where they can be enjoyed, not being hauled around wasting more resources than were saved creating them.
LETTER: Let’s go get Amazon HQ2, but not leader’s politics
Jeff Bezos is as capitalistic with his own money as anyone else and is very successful. However, he is very “socialistic” with everyone else’s money—meaning yours and mine.
LETTER: Smart growth means sensible regulation
Many businesses have large amounts of impervious surfaces on their rooftops and parking lots with no areas to allow for natural drainage to wetlands or corridors planted with native species that filter harmful substances and clean the water before it enters the storm sewer system.
LETTER: Nickel Plate plan won’t work
There has been a clear lack of transparency and public input regarding every aspect of the proposal to convert the Nickel Plate Railroad to a trail.
LETTER: Kudos to Maurer attitude about aging with fun
I’m not sure 70 is the age to say exactly what’s on your mind, or perhaps it is 80.
LETTER: Racism has no place in GOP, our community
The events in Charlottesville were not the fault of “both sides.” Nazis are bad.
LETTER: Senator right on health care
We are hopeful that now the Senate can work together in a bipartisan way to improve our nation’s health care system and ensure that all Americans have quality and affordable health care.
LETTER: Lobbyist wrong on ethanol
Thanks to ethanol, Indiana farmers and the biofuels industry are saving consumers at the pump, providing higher octane at a lower cost, all while lowering tail pipe emissions.
LETTER: WTTS is no radio rebel
am exactly the target listener they are trying to attract, but can no longer tolerate the saturation airplay of the same John Mellencamp, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and Dave Matthews Band songs played year after year by WTTS.
LETTER: Congressmen didn’t offer health care solutions
Sen. Joe Donnelly and Rep. Trey Hollingsworth’s essays are not solutions, or even suggestions about a direction health care reform might move.
LETTER: Stadium story underplays costs
Of all the numbers listed in your article about Lucas Oil Stadium [At a crossroads? July 24], you did not mention what the annual payments and debt service dollars are that the city must continue to pay for the stadium. Nor did you mention how much the city still owes on the Hoosier Dome (yes, the […]
LETTER: Ethanol mandates are damaging
It’s time to repeal or significantly reform this outdated, failed policy.
LETTER: Short-term rentals unfair to others in neighborhood
The issue is not about governmental regulation but about the “sharing” property owners stealing value from their neighboring property owners.
LETTER: Media needs to look at reality of ACA
This standoff started when the ACA was force fed through the Democratic-led House and Senate, along partisan lines, as part of a partisan agenda, and among lies about the legislation’s effect on those who had health care.
LETTER: Let’s hope for civility in U.S. Senate race
I don’t have much hope that the Senate race will be anything but ugly.