In the end, there were good things that happened during the 2019 legislative session, and things that are good because they didn’t happen. But there also is too much money unspent and too many needs unmet.
While the General Assembly filled some holes in the law discovered by the increasing use of such services as Airbnb, rental scooters and peer-to-peer vehicle sharing, nothing was done to examine the framework behind some of these popular new concepts.
What will we call the fieldhouse after the Bankers Life moniker disappears this summer?
Mere minutes after raising my glass in celebration of my dear friend’s new job, I was on the verge of ordering another round to drown my dismay. He had just made a $713,000 mistake, and had no idea. I’m not normally a judgmental friend when it comes to money, despite what you might think, but […]
Becoming a truly informed voter takes a lot of time. But the odds that an individual’s vote decides an outcome is vanishingly small. So most voters conclude it isn’t worth the effort.
It’s as if we collectively shrug our shoulders and say, “These diseases are too hard to handle, so you’re on your own.”
On a local level, sponsor a child in a summer program. Help a child before he or she becomes a victim.
To unleash more resources to worthy causes, we need leaders and policy environments that will facilitate rather than limit philanthropic capital.
We have neighbors who are doing really well living beside neighbors who haven’t had the same access to or benefits from the same opportunities.
Without a dedicated focus to filling this gap, it is estimated the skilled-worker shortage could reach 11 million nationwide by 2020.
My view is that, if people don’t like paying high state and local taxes, they need to change their state and local legislators.
Imagine if we could help eliminate food deserts altogether by using autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries to underserved neighborhoods.
The Republican supermajority and the governor are failing to prepare Indiana for an ever-changing and uncertain future.
I am confronted with two efforts to impose plans from above and to drown us under statistics designed to ensure that the plans are executed.
It’s possible for people of faith to serve in government and have a godly impact.
These adherents’ focus is to use the law in an attempt to manufacture equality across all spheres of life.
Demonstrating grace in defeat is probably the most difficult thing any political candidate is ever asked to do—and some are never able to do it.
Buttigieg speaks of inclusion, not division. He envisions an America that serves all.
Why favor gender when today’s world demands “equality”? All genders and ages need items that are “simply necessary to personal hygiene.” Soap, deodorant, shampoo, water I would argue are necessary to personal hygiene.
It is time to end the war on crime and drugs. As a first step, we need to change how we think of those coming home from prison and jail. Few of our citizens returning to the community from prison are immoral, malicious and unredeemable.
