IRELAND: Hillary’s record is short on big accomplishments
There is no doubt the former Secretary of State, senator from New York and first lady has an impressive resume of titles. But she lacks substantial and defining accomplishments.
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WAGNER: Come November, Hillary could win Hoosiers’ hearts
Hillary Clinton is running a solid state-by-state campaign to be our next president, but she’s not center stage. The Republican circus side show has occupied that space.
ROOB: Mr. President, don’t go back on bipartisan HIP 2.0 deal
In the case of HIP 2.0, both the Obama and Pence administrations felt their compromise was a small price to pay for the larger goal of insuring more people. But once a deal is done, let’s keep it done.
MEREDITH: To address shortage, understand why teachers teach
Educators choose to stay in the classroom when their desire to make an impact on the next generation overcomes a desire for significant salary advancement, when collaboration is embedded in the culture of the profession, when support from administrators guides smart classroom decisions.
MASSON: Criminalizing bathrooms puts biology over biography
What makes human life more valuable than the lives of other animals? Is it the biographical life we value or is it the mere fact of human biology we find consequential?
BOEHM: Courts could draw the line on gerrymandering run amok
The challenge is to establish a test to distinguish unconstitutional infringement of voters’ rights from disparities that result from legitimate considerations or from the natural concentration of some populations. Help may be on the way.
DIETER: It sure looks like Hoosier hospitality is disappearing
The concept of Hoosier hospitality suffered some body blows in 2015, thanks largely to the person who, more than anyone, should be looking out for Indiana’s reputation: Gov. Mike Pence.
LOU’S VIEWS: Civil warriors clash–and team up–in Phoenix Theatre’s “Butler”
The best legal thriller I’ve seen in years, Richard Strand’s “Butler” doesn’t venture anywhere near a courtroom, judge’s chamber or jury room.
DANIELS: Attractive communities will attract talent, jobs
Young, talented people are looking for quality of life, and will choose a community with a rich lifestyle over a good job elsewhere. Indiana has seen stagnating population growth at least in part as a result of our failure to keep up with this trend.
SHABAZZ: Hogsett, Dems own Indy’s government—and its problems
With Joe Hogsett as mayor and the Democrats with control of the council by a 13-12 margin, they now have the power to put their vision into play. They also get the responsibility if things go south.
DINING: State Fair staple Barto’s hops to Greenwood with Hops & Fire
Don’t go to the eager-to-please new pub and eatery looking for deep-fried sweet corn or country-fried bacon or other fairground fare.
LOPRESTI: ‘A Brad Stevens guy’ builds from ground up at Center Grove
Zach Hahn, drawn to coaching years ago, earns his shot at turning around south-side school’s team.
KIM: Big stocks’ strength masked weakness of overall market
The major stock market indexes showed flattish performance in 2015, but only because the largest-capitalization stocks did well.
BOHANON & STYRING: Quest for growth faces demographic headwinds
A low birth rate coupled with extended life spans for old folks is a recipe for an economic squeeze.
Don’t forget the ‘T’ in LGBT
If Pence falls into the trap of thinking SB100 adequately addresses LGBT protections, then Indiana businesses should expect the same nationwide response we received to RFRA.
Friedman’s toll road idea was ‘lead balloon’ of 2015
Shaw Friedman has once again attempted to attack the state’s most successful public initiative in recent memory, the 2006 lease of the Indiana Toll Road.
Barlow’s gun rhetoric does a disservice
Marcus, I have to call it as it is. You are part of the problem. We don’t have to outlaw all guns to improve the situation. There is a reasonable middle ground.
Time to shut off Dan Carpenter’s drivel
I found his comments about two people he saw in a Broad Ripple restaurant that he designated as “Tea Party voters” that he described as “two fleshy white guys with their ball caps and baggy shorts and piled plates at the next table … open-carry warriors and pure haters of all things Obama and ‘foreign’” as offensive!
JOSEPH: The Uber-ization of small business
While everyone from massage therapists to dog walkers wants to be the next Uber, the calculus is much more complex than the trend would indicate.
HOGSETT: Let’s not let partisanship poison Indy
Political operatives have become skilled at discerning what voters want, but this has caused our elected representatives to forget that our system sometimes requires they do more than merely mirror the most vocal of their electorate and conduct themselves accordingly.