McCABE: Cities can drive climate action with Paris Accord in flux
If I were an Indiana mayor, I would ask: What are the best things I can do to serve my city and reduce my city’s carbon footprint?
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MORRIS: Let’s do more to support veterans
Set an example for our state government by thanking those who’ve served in the military.
Bring offshore profits home—but companies shouldn’t squander cash
There is an estimated $2.6 trillion in profits that companies have made in other parts of the world—and are leaving there to avoid paying hefty taxes on the earnings when they transfer the money to the United States.
Siddiqui: A user-fee is just a tax (not even in disguise)
There are two fundamental questions. First, is it the responsibility of lawmakers to create a long-term, sustained commitment to the regular upkeep of our infrastructure? Second, how do we fund this commitment?
Smith: Israel is a nation committed to religious freedom
There is an ethos in this land, something in the very DNA of the nation, that recognizes the strength of saying, “All are welcome as long as you live and let live.”
Hale: IU institute’s role is more important than ever
Thank goodness for those neutral bodies that make it their business to provide the evidence needed to get things done the right way.
Parr What it means to be a nation of laws
We could, I suppose, dispense with these constitutional protections and simply hold a people’s court by which an individual is found guilty or liable based solely on how a group feels on any given day or predicated on accusations alone. I’m not a lawyer yet, but I think that’s called mob justice.
Leppert: Politics draws distinction between wrong and illegal
Even after several months and countless tweets from the president declaring “NO COLLUSION” has occurred in the Russia-election investigation, it is clear it absolutely has.
Ireland: Republicans must start painting in ‘bold colors’
Recent polling shows Democrats up double digits on a generic ballot, putting Republicans’ sizable majorities at risk.
Shabazz: Here’s how you do immigration reform
I totally get border security, but we have to be smart about it.
Ritz: Virtual schools fail students
These companies lure many of these students through effective advertising. They take our money and enroll our most vulnerable with little result.
Wagner: Gun Range Barbie conquers her fear
There is something awesome—the actual definition of the word, not 1990s’ teen vernacular—about holding that power in the palm of your hand.
Shella: Forcing Republicans, Democrats to work together
Lawmakers in safe districts, be they in Congress or in the Indiana General Assembly, don’t need to cooperate with others because they have no fear of losing the next election.
Schneider: It’s time for mad women
It would be a step in the right direction for more women to be in positions of political and business strength, leading as editors, executives and officeholders.
Daniels: ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ lessons remain vital today
The whole point of the book is to make people uncomfortable as we confront a past that helps to explain a great deal about our present.
Wolley: ‘I feared for my life’ is not enough
There must be a rebalancing of the legitimate concern for officer safety versus the use of lethal force in police interactions with the community.
Clere: Clean needles save lives, while sharp rhetoric kills
Compared to the cost of treating HIV or hepatitis C, clean needles are cheap.
Hill: Handing out needles does nothing to curb abuse
Providing items that enable and even encourage exactly the destructive behavior we want to stop is a self-defeating exercise.
LETTER: Indy could be smart city
Indianapolis’ city leadership should continue to work hard to reach a better, more connected and digitally inclusive future.
LETTER: Stop Yellowwood logging
Keep Tecumseh Trail open. Please urge Gov. Eric Holcomb to change this decision and protect our quality of life.