LOU’S VIEWS: Dance Kaleidoscope explores undiscovered country (& western)
Even saddled with distracting costumes, DK shines in country show. Highlights include choreographer Cynthia Pratt’s “If I Needed You.”
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DINING: Rockstone rolls into Fishers
Rockstone Pizzeria & Pub is yet another new northside pizza place. Is it worth a visit?
LOPRESTI: Wichita State can join perfect Hoosiers, not beat them
Championship team members, now grandfathers, don’t mind welcoming new unbeatens to their club.
FEIGENBAUM: Budget concerns push big ideas into next year
Amazing how deadlines—particularly pushing them forward—can ensure compromise in the General Assembly’s conference committee process.
Think twice before deregulating utilities
For decades, our state has enjoyed low, stable electricity prices due in large measure to using Indiana’s abundant natural resource—coal. However, federal environmental mandates have eroded that advantage as our electric utilities have had to make expensive investments to comply with stricter rules.
GUY: Don’t run education like a business
Disagreements about education reform result from conflicting models: the business model and the social model. Governors such as Daniels and Pence, reflecting their backgrounds and support structures, tend toward the business model. Superintendent Ritz, with almost 35 years as a teacher/communications coordinator in elementary schools, is more aligned with the social model.
RUSTHOVEN: Donnelly wisely bucks his president
On March 5, Joe Donnelly joined six other Senate Democrats and all Republicans, including Dan Coats, in rejecting President Obama’s nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Hoosier senators did the right thing.
MAURER: Turning Hoosiers into leaders
Tobias Center’s Hoosier Fellows experiential leadership program offers unmatched opportunities.
RASMUSSEN: Politics now minus-sum game where everyone loses
“A simple recipe for violence: promise a lot, deliver a little. Lead people to believe they will be much better off, but let there be no dramatic improvement.” The brilliant political scientist Aaron Wildavsky wrote these words in 1968 while America was engulfed in race riots and anti-war protests. Sadly, his words from long ago eerily describe the politics of 21st-century America.
GARRISON: Planned Parenthood’s latest subsidized exploit
So I am preparing for the show one recent morning when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a story at Breitbart.com about a new PR campaign being launched by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The subject? Bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism for “active teens.”
KETZENBERGER: It isn’t about the destination; it’s about the quest
When I was a kid with a tank full of cheap gas and nothing but time on my hands, I’d drive all over the countryside trying to get lost.
MADISON: Hoosiers, the American Dream, and ‘jest a bein’ rich’
Indiana was for a century and a half the heartland of the American Dream. Pioneers bought land cheaply, built log cabins, grew corn, and soon acquired iron stoves and store-bought clothing.
DOWD: Already worn to exhaustion by Hillary’s campaign
Oy. By the time the Bushes and Clintons are finished, they are going to make the Tudors and the Plantagenets look like pikers. Barack Obama will turn out to be the interim guy who provided a tepid respite while Hillary and Jeb geared up to go at it.
MASSON: New slogan destined for ‘Wander Indiana’ infamy
The Indiana Office of Tourism Development has announced that “Honest to Goodness Indiana” is the new slogan with which it will attempt to promote the state to tourists. IBJ reported that slogan was the product of a panel of 30 individuals within the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, government leaders, and representatives from both the public and private sectors as well as a development process including input from nearly 8,000 consumers.
LANOSGA: Run government like a business? Which business?
Which is better: business or government? Before you answer, consider two cases.
PARR: Taxes, budget surpluses and dueling ideologies
For some time now, there has been a concerted effort—primarily by Republicans—to tackle tax reform. Essentially, the plan is to lower rates for all Americans and close loopholes, doing so in a revenue-neutral manner.
BOEHM: Airport is shortsighted location for justice center
Like almost everyone familiar with the Marion County courts, I applaud Mayor Ballard’s proposal to address the long-recognized need for a judicial center. The proposal would leave the civil courts in the City-County Building but consolidate the criminal courts and their associated agencies in one complex.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: Crime undermines Indy’s many advancements
In his recent State of the City address, Mayor Ballard expanded on a familiar theme of making Indianapolis a more livable city, one that can build on its unique amenities to attract middle- and upper-income residents back into Marion County and even the old city limits.
SPALDING: Take the transit money while the fed’s hand is open
Every time I see an IndyGo story, I brace myself for the good, the bad and the oh-so ugly.