Deborah Daniels: Lugar made our world a much better place
“The best tribute we can offer is to try to demonstrate the principles by which he lived his own life, every day.”
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Pierre Atlas: More than a great man—a truly good one
I could never bring myself to call him by his first name. To me, he will always be “Sen. Lugar.”
Randall Shepard: Lugar changed Indiana by focusing on the world
Our connections to the world are more important than ever, and many Hoosiers have put their shoulder to the wheel.
Marshawn Wolley: Lugar’s legacy is mixed for city’s black community
I wish he would’ve fought for more extensive changes—for a more equitable Unigov.
Abdul-Hakim Shabazz: Why we should all be a little more like Sen. Lugar
The senator’s greatest quality was his thoughtfulness and sense of bipartisanship when it came to problem-solving.
Jennifer Wagner: Create relationships that aren’t based on the big ‘ask’
There’s plenty of room for talking and listening, developing relationships that aren’t based on immediate wants but on the underlying human desire to learn more.
Michael Leppert: Dear graduates, it’s springtime for you. Make it last.
Have a great party in your cap and gown this weekend, and when the hangover ends, buckle up for the rest of your life.
Curt Smith: Connecting churches with their communities
It will take time for us to demonstrate this initiative is not about politics but rather about relationships.
Shariq Siddiqui: How the Trump tax cuts could hurt charitable giving
We should find a mechanism to make charitable deductions available to all Americans.
Jim Shella: Allow cameras in Indiana’s county courtrooms
The public deserves to know what goes on in our courtrooms just as much as it deserves to know what goes on in the legislative branches of government.
Christina Hale: What a weedy parking lot says about our economy
The evidence is clear that communities need entrepreneurs to step up when times get bad.
Richard Feldman: We must root for courts to uphold Obamacare
The judge overstepped in ruling the entire ACA invalid.
Bill Oesterle: Let’s get audacious and shoot for the stars—literally
Building a space elevator is an enormous project, and Purdue is the place do it.
Glenda Ritz: Teacher pay hasn’t been priority for state since 2011
Despite the lack of language to address the real issues of teacher pay, the Legislature expects the local districts to pay teachers more.
Todd Huston: Lawmakers did their part to help schools boost pay
While the state is a partner in the funding of schools, decisions on teacher pay are made based upon communities’ needs.
Mitch Daniels: A big idea—An energy-water corridor on the border
A consortium of more than two dozen scientists and engineers proposes an “energy-water corridor” along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is that rarest of modern phenomena: an ecumenical concept with unifying potential, an idea that even sworn enemies can love.
Editorial: Congress should approve Sen. Todd Young’s bill to boost smoking age
The measure is especially important after the Indiana General Assembly’s failed to act on a similar proposal as well as a bill that would have significantly increased the cigarette tax. That’s despite strong support for both bills from a broad spectrum of business, religious, health and not-for-profit organizations.
GREG MORRIS: Gleaners leads fight against food insecurity
Your help is needed in the battle against hunger, a problem that observes no boundaries.
Letter: Todd Young defends American principles
As though the Green New Deal isn’t ridiculous enough, inserting socialist policies like Medicare for All and guaranteed income into the proposal is a transparent and appalling intent to destroy the foundation of America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers and embodied in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Letter: A welcome defense of Mike Pence
As a Taylor alumni and the author of The Faith of Mike Pence, I wrote Taylor’s president a letter and encouraged him to consider the vice president’s consistent 41-year walk with the Lord, his faithful, non-wavering biblical stances in politics, and the testimonies and stories of almost 60 people I interviewed for the book, and to dismiss the gossip, lies and slander that have been perpetrated by the enemy against our vice president.