Letters to the Editor

Passage of an amendment to the budget bill that stops funding the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University is censorship of world-renowned science on human sexuality.

The price that I pay for health care on site at a hospital should not be the same price I pay for an off-site visit to my primary care doctor’s office for the same service.

When can we get back to quality office holders more concerned about governing through collaboration and thoughtful consideration of all aspects of the major issues facing the country instead of focusing on their extremist wars?

Every time I come back to Indiana, I am reminded of the absurdly low speed limits on Indiana’s urban interstates.

The lack of transparency, diversion of much-needed property tax revenues away from schools and libraries, and overall mismanagement of the wacko financing scheme appears over-ripe for overhaul.

Over 2.4 million Hoosiers lack access to primary care, and 6.6 million can’t access mental health care. Indiana’s 9,000 APRNs stand ready to help expand access.

More than 825,000 Black Americans have diabetic retinopathy, a disease caused by damage to the blood vessels in the tissue at the back of the eye.

An improved overpass would be a great gateway for the East Street corridor.

As a rising tide lifts all boats, so too do the investments in renewable energy manufacturing improve the economic outlook for both rural and urban areas.

I hope that our strong senators, Mike Braun and Todd Young, will lead the crusade against PBMs.

One small African country does not seem like a good foundation for broad conclusions.

Props to Big Car Collaborative and its program director, Shauta Marsh, for their leadership in the arts community and bringing private funding directly to local artists.

It’s fine to aspire to keep up with the rest of the country, but it will take more than a few politicians handing out tax incentives to succeed. The sooner Indiana’s political leaders realize that, the better.

The expectation that charters can acquire a former IPS school building for $1 is just one indication of the bias favoring charters.

It was Brian Payne who took a leap of faith with Pathways Over Pogue’s grassroots campaign to repair a historic bridge in Spades Park.

We are accountable for how we are taking care of God’s creation and have a chance to encourage AES Indiana towards a better future by holding them accountable for their promise of a true clean energy transition.

My grandfather said journalism was the highest calling. That journalists had a sacred responsibility to the “sheep” to tell the “truth.”

Walker has focused on issues that matter to the district, including funding schools, creating jobs, making our community safer and improving quality of life.