Articles

Misguided thinking destroying urban grid

Traffic lanes are being removed, willy-nilly, for use as planters, parking lots, feel-good-about-being-green drainage swales, sidewalk “bump-outs,” suburban-style winding “trails” and who knows what else is next.

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EDITORIAL: Encouraging start for LGBT debate

We still believe that simply adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the civil rights law makes the most sense. But it is with cautious optimism that we welcome a proposal from Senate Republicans that goes further than we expected.

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HUBER: Indy region needs Regional Cities lift

There’s no “manifest destiny” for Indianapolis. We aren’t sharing in the national migration of talent to metropolitan America. We lag most other large regions in population growth, including peers like Nashville, Denver and Columbus.

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KENNEDY: Now comes the hard part–governing

How will mayor-elect Joe Hogsett and the new City-County Council provide even the most basic public services, from public safety to paving streets to picking up trash, in the face of steady erosion of the resources needed to deliver those services?

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