Articles

Not all creationists alike

In Mr. Maurer’s last two paragraphs, he says it is impossible to debate gay marriage with a creationist and that “this group voted 100 percent for RFRA in our state Legislature.”

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KENNEDY: If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right

This hiatus in what seemed like a headlong rush to commit Indianapolis taxpayers to a very expensive new justice center provides decision-makers and stakeholders alike an excellent opportunity to consider what we’ve learned from this debate.

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SKARBECK: Sizzling Chinese stocks should spook investors

Chinese stocks have been on a tear. Last week, China’s Shanghai Composite Index rose 8.9 percent. In the last year, the Chinese market has jumped 150 percent. No other major stock market has ever grown this much in dollar value over 12 months. Since the beginning of 2015, the Chinese stock market has doubled in […]

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Common wage repeal will harm tax collections

Peter Rusthoven’s praise over the repeal of Indiana’s common construction wage law [May 11 Taking Issue] should have been characterized as praise for creating more low-income Hoosiers, as that was the intended goal of this new law.

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Founding Fathers indeed referred to the Creator

Sheila Kennedy [May 18 Taking Issue] asserts that, 150 years after the Pilgrims landed with their “Puritan” ideas, the founding fathers wrote a Constitution which makes no reference to God or divine providence.

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HETRICK: For bicentennial, bring on good, bad, ugly

The Hoosier cynic in me said that what Indiana needs to do over the next half century is catch up with things the rest of the world accomplished 50 years ago—things like local government reform, competitive-with-the-nation wages that can support families, antidiscrimination laws that provide equal protection for all of our citizens, and protection of our state’s reputation from standup comedians and seven-figure PR firms.

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