LOPRESTI: Boilermakers basketball takes on world in Taipei
For the rest of August, Purdue is America’s Team, trading black and gold for red, white and blue.
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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It’s time to repeal or significantly reform this outdated, failed policy.
THOMAS: Life in a divided city
How could people in the divided city of Aleppo, Syria, live such different lives? I couldn’t imagine it—until I considered ways our city is divided.
MUSGRAVE: Giving good firms the boost to be better
I’ll concede that private equity might have a marketing problem. Somewhere along the way, it got a bad rap, which is a shame when you consider the impact private equity has had in Indiana.
MAURER: Embrace a decade of firsts, not lasts
I am disheartened over the melancholy exhibited by my contemporaries during what should be cheery occasions.
EDITORIAL: Program for blind deserves saving
The Veterans Administration’s policy change to discourage the use of not-for-profit agencies serving people who are visually impaired is misguided.
KIM: Are passively managed funds too ‘dumb’ to vote?
Because passive funds do not choose stocks based on performance potential, Lund asserts they lack a financial incentive to ensure that each of the companies in their very large portfolios is well run.
BOHANON & STYRING: Tariff logic is as mushy as canned tomatoes
Forcing steel-using firms to substitute high-cost U.S. steel for low-cost foreign imports makes those businesses less competitive.
Ireland: Lesser-known candidates offer much in Senate race
Candidates who run on ideas—no matter the results—breathe life into their party and help move communities forward.
Shabazz: A few more facts about police-action shootings
With what we’ve seen in the news, you would think it was open season on unarmed black men by law enforcement. However, the data paints a different picture.
Shella: There is still good journalism out there, but …
Journalism has changed, the ways we consume it have changed, and the way people view journalism and journalists has changed, too.
Robertson: Bringing the service back to public service
In the days of Donald Trump, Anthony Scaramucci and endless talking heads—nay, screaming heads—on the left and right, it is easy to forget that running for office or working in government is supposed to be about public service. It is supposed to be an honor and the highest form of civic engagement.
Hale: Sue Ellspermann and the women in prison
Sometimes, elected officials do the right thing for the right reasons when no one is looking. Seriously. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s true.
Daniels: Defending the right to bear arms—with limitations
I agree in concept with John Lott’s “more guns, less crime” theory, based on data indicating that violent crime decreases when states are required to issue gun permits to law-abiding citizens. But I don’t see any need for the general public to own semi-automatic weapons.
Smith: Christianity in Indiana by the numbers
The church is about far, far more than worship on Sunday morning. It affects whom we elect, how we earn and spend money, and the ways we solve shared problems.
Leppert: Public health and education are infrastructure, too
Just as a company is only as good as “the intelligence of its people,” the same rule applies to “the health of its people.” And these two rules apply to our nation.
Parr: Now entrenched, government health care hard to purge
in cases of extreme expansion of federal power, the court of public opinion is arguably at least as important as the legal process.
Hollingsworth: Focus on central question: Who’s in charge?
Under Obamacare, these decisions are increasingly being taken from you and your family and made by bureaucrats who don’t know you, don’t know your needs, and don’t have a stake in your future.
Donnelly: Our top priority must be to do no harm
I won’t support any effort that undermines the coverage of those Hoosiers—or of the families whose children have complex medical conditions and rely on HIP 2.0 and Medicaid to get the care they need.