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HUDNUT: Words on leadership from a four-term mayor
I heard many times: “Bill, if you put that tax on, you will never be elected to anything again.” We had to stick to our guns, or give up. Part of leadership is knowing when to stand on principle and when to be flexible.
RUSTHOVEN: Hogsett knows fighting crime is job one
The mayor-elect recognized that “in victory comes enormous responsibility,” identifying the morning after his election the most important one.
MAURER: State must confront death with dignity
Humans get short end of the stick when it comes to deciding when it’s time to go.
EDITORIAL: South-side project good for region
The patience of Greenwood officials to find the best use for the high-profile intersection at Interstate 65 and County Line Road shows an economic-development mind-set that’s bringing renewed prosperity to the county.
LOU’S VIEWS: Prince of prints
IMA shows evolution of artist Gustave Baumann, who specialized in wood block nature prints
DINING: Subito stakes a claim on Cultural Trail
When the Subito sign went up across the street from an otherwise quiet stretch of the Cultural Trail, I expected another inconsequential lunchery. I was wrong.
LOPRESTI: College basketball in Indiana: a statistical point of view
Good, bad and ugly, here are numbers to remember about your favorite Hoosier teams.
KIM: Funds set to distribute year-end lumps of coal
Fund investors endured harrowing plunges in 2015. Absent a year-end rally, returns will be disappointingly modest.
BOHANON & STYRING: Rising entitlements tab requires drastic action
Public finance economists go crazy thinking about federal entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security account for most of the entitlement spending, although Obamacare looms as a future contender.
KRUGMAN: Boring Canadians win—again—by going their own way
When it comes to economic policy, the reputation is undeserved: Canada has surprisingly often been the place where the future happens first.
COLLINS: Japan has eclipsed the U.S. on working women? Really?
Japan now has a higher proportion of working women than we do. I’m trying to get my head around this fact.
DOWD: Benghazi circus aside, Hillary failed in Middle East
Hillary Clinton is never more alluring than when a bunch of pasty-faced, nasty-tongued white men bully her.
BOEHM: A committee with great potential should persevere
It was clear from the commission’s first meeting, largely introductory, that there is a wide range of opinion among the members as to the need for any change, and the nature of any desired reform.
SHABAZZ: Indiana Democrats’ road plans are paths to nowhere
Hey, guys. How’s it been going? I am writing this column to offer you all some friendly advice.
WAGNER: Deep gratitude for an under-appreciated public office
With the exception of the happy task of issuing marriage licenses, the Marion County clerk oversees a panoply of important but not particularly uplifting duties: collecting child support, administering court filings, maintaining old records and running our local elections.
DIETER: The GOP field: Is this the best a major party can offer?
It’s hard not to feel sorry for the many Republicans who care about their communities and country, not their neighbor’s bedroom behavior; seek elected officials to represent constituents, not plutocrats; and recognize their good fortune and do not wish to deny others.
MEREDITH:Testing blizzard makes teachers, students feel weary
Testing has become a nightmare. We’re waiting again. Yes. Again.
BARLOW: Clamor to recognize hate crimes takes us backward
Greg Porter is my state representative. I respect the work he’s done in the community and I respect where I know he’s coming from when he proposes that Indiana adopt strict hate crime legislation in the coming session.
DANIELS: We can’t afford to keep locking up non-violent offenders
I fully agree that we need to be forceful in our response to violent criminals, incapacitating them through lengthy imprisonment.