MAURER: Gerrymandering leads to bad bills
Safe seats cause crazy legislation, but non-partisan advocacy for fair redistricting is mushrooming.
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EDITORIAL: HIP 2.0 is worth saving
Lawmakers should resist the temptation to pass a law that would destroy programs such as HIP 2.0 that have found a way to balance liberal ideals about government serving the poor with conservative principals about the marketplace.
URBAN DESIGN: Stretch of Ohio Street has magnetic allure
Examining why this simple place makes passersby feel like they’re somewhere special.
DINING: Unexpected sushi stop added to Westfield’s Park Street
A spin-off of a New Orleans sushi restaurant, Chiba is owned by a couple who met during their work with Andretti Autosport.
LOU’S VIEWS: At Stratford, a theater festival well worth the trip
For vacation this year, I took a trek to Verona, Ilyria, Broadway and a tropical island that housed buried treasure.
LOPRESTI: No one could have predicted these crazy sports headlines
Another spin on the coaching carousel and some weird numbers from the games we play.
SKARBECK: Fiduciary rule accelerates trend toward lower fees
Beginning June 9, the much-debated U.S. Department of Labor fiduciary rule becomes effective for the investment industry, with a phase-in period running through Jan. 1, 2018.
BOHANON & STYRING: How market forces are reducing our emissions
A shift by utility producers from coal to natural gas is happening without any Paris Accord or a single regulation from the U.S. Department of Energy.
EILENBERG: Artificial intelligence will transform health care
IBM researchers estimate that 90 percent of health care data is in the form of images. Because deep learning does best with lots and lots and lots of data, AI initially is likely to cause the most profound disruption in imaging.
LOPRESTI: Baseball trailblazer has abundance of memories to cherish
Ken Schreiber coached LaPorte High School to Indiana's first state baseball championship 50 years ago. He led the school to another six championships during his storied career.
DINING: Taking a slice of the Hoosier Pie Trail
From a diner that opens at 5 a.m. to a classic cafeteria that seems to have a slice for every year it’s been around, a sampling of the upper crust of Indiana pie-making.
LETTER: Boycott liquor stores to demand Sunday sales
Of course, grown adults would like to have access to beer and wine on Sundays.
LETTER: State should recruit veterans to Indiana
The Military/Veterans Coalition of Indiana has a short-term solution for recruiting people to Indiana that would make the state money, grow the population and provide new taxpayers in Indiana counties.
HOLLINGSWORTH: CHOICE Act returns power to the people
We must facilitate capital in the marketplace to ensure that the small business starting in a garage or the bustling, expanding company has access to the resources to help make those American dreams a reality.
RUGE: Trump’s immigration policies tough for Indiana businesses
Indiana business owners who believe it either is necessary or wise to employ workers from other countries are facing increasingly higher and more difficult barriers.
MORRIS: How Marsh failed its customers
I want to address the issues more simply, as a consumer. From that vantage point, Sun Capital Partners was a poor grocery store operator.
EDITORIAL: Tightfisted owner tanked Marsh
We don’t begrudge Sun for trying to turn a profit. And we acknowledge that Marsh had plenty of problems when Sun scooped it up. But the company—and community—deserved a better steward than Sun.
Trump’s budget repairs our broken culture
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen has just published a timely new book, “The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.” Cowen’s message is that America is a nation that has lost its edge. Entrepreneurism and the willingness to take risks—key factors that once defined the American economy and made it the growth […]
Neither hot nor cold on climate change
Like a lot of conservatives who write about public policy, my views on climate change place me in the ranks of what the British writer Matt Ridley once dubbed the “lukewarmers.” Lukewarmers accept that the earth is warming and that our civilization’s ample CO2 emissions are a major cause. They doubt, however, that climate change […]
ROBERTSON: Stand for American values by confronting bigoted behavior
I know taking action can come with consequences to individuals, but inaction will come with profound consequences felt across our entire society.