HOOSIER BEACON: James Whitcomb Riley, ‘The Children’s Poet’
Riley, for whom the city’s children’s hospital is named, was a best-selling author of the 1890s.
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DINING: Rangeline restaurant shifts to chicken—and pulls it off well
Zeke’s Hot Chicken & Wings stakes a claim in the shadow of a KFC.
LOU’S VIEWS: New anthology of Indiana talent includes John Green, other strong work
Fiction, non-fiction and poetry included in that mix.
LOPRESTI: Do you know your Colts? Try this season-opening quiz and find out
Who knew there was a French horn player and Rhodes Scholar candidate in this group?
LETTER TO EDITOR: Indiana’s lottery preys on Hoosiers’ weaknesses
Some will contend that Indiana finally “got with it” when it amended the Indiana Constitution to allow state-run lotteries, but the financial damage done to Hoosiers least able to afford it can’t be measured.
LETTER TO EDITOR: Tree issue thornier than letter implies
Steve says the proposed business is “an asset to our neighborhood.” That’s an assumption which stands to be proven.
MARSCHALL & LAPPIE: Is Indiana the reddest Midwest state?
Since Indiana is one of the few states with partisan mayoral elections, it provides a test bed for a host of questions regarding the relationship between national and local politics.
KENNEDY: Leadership for ‘no mean city’
The bustling city we inhabit today owes its existence to Richard Lugar, Bill Hudnut and others who were willing to stick their necks out to do the right thing.
MAURER: Riddle of creativity not easy to solve
An update on why creativity is as important as intelligence in business success.
EDITORIAL: Liquor laws fail us again
The battle between a Monarch Beverage Co. affiliate and liquor wholesalers in the state is the latest reminder that the Legislature should bring into the modern era state statutes that govern the sale of alcoholic beverages.
KIM: Remembering a friend who died Sept. 11, 2001
It’s hard to believe, but Sept. 11, 2016, marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. While the memories are painful, we must never forget.
BOHANON & STYRING: Ireland trying to take unfair tax bite out of Apple
If government establishes tax loopholes, can we blame taxpayers for taking advantage of the provisions?
HILL: Enforcement, treatment, prevention all part of opioid addition strategy
The demand for opioid drives the supply, and Indiana falls woefully short ontreatment options to curb demand.
ARRENDONDO: State must crack down on overprescribing doctors
Many, if not most, of the people I meet have been touched in some way by the prescription-painkiller epidemic plaguing our state and our country.
Virtual reality’s increasing grip on how we live
Since the 1990s, we’ve seen two broad social changes that few observers would have expected to happen together. First, youth culture has become less violent, less promiscuous and more responsible. Childhood in the United States is safer than ever before. Teenagers drink and smoke less than previous generations did. The millennial generation has fewer sexual […]
A stand against political correctness in Chicago
We have gotten so used to seeing college presidents caving in to so many outrageous demands from gangs of bullying students that it is a long overdue surprise to see that at least one major university has shown some backbone. Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, has spoken out in the […]
Why Trump has no hope of winning over black voters
So now Donald Trump is campaigning for the black vote. (Long, awkward pause.) Like so much of what Trump has said and done, this new outreach forces writers like me to conduct scatological studies, framing Trump’s actions in their historical and intellectual absurdity. But, here we go. Trump, who got just 1 percent of support […]
ROOB: Storm outages expose vulnerability of electrical system
Cut the trees. Bury the lines. Do what needs to be done.
SHEPARD: State’s manufacturing strength is something to celebrate
The modern reality is that Indiana continues to lead the nation in the percentage of our workforce employed in manufacturing. And the level of employment in such jobs has risen continually since the Great Recession began.
SHABAZZ: There’s a lot of good news in Indiana’s jobs numbers
The state’s economy added more than 11,000 jobs in July and more Hoosiers were working than ever before. Unemployment is at 4.6 percent and the state’s workforce participation rate is 65.4 percent—the national average is 62.8 percent.