PERRAS: A lump of coal from the state’s high court
If you’re a natural-gas customer in Indiana, the Indiana Supreme Court last week delivered a costly blow to your pocketbook.
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RUSTHOVEN: The media misunderstands tax cuts
Gov. Mike Pence just “outlined an aggressive agenda to bolster education and job initiatives along with a proposal to eliminate the business personal property tax.” The words are from Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute President John Ketzenberger, longtime journalist and longtime friend.
KIM: New financial bet involves tickets to Super Bowl
Do you think the Indianapolis Colts will play in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2? Would you love to join them, but don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars and multiples of face value on StubHub? You can purchase an option granting you the right to purchase a ticket to the Super Bowl at face value, if the Colts qualify.
MAURER: Wanted: chubby guy with white beard
Claus is known to drink too much eggnog and overwork and underpay his poor elves.
Hicks: How to cut labor costs? Improve quality of life
Attractive regions will attract households with greater location choices. These households will inevitably be better educated and command a higher income. However, all things being equal, workers in these places will not require quite as high a wage to live in these places as they would to live in a less-desirable place.
EDITORIAL: Time is right for justice center
Finally, the city is talking seriously about consolidating the jumble of courts, jails and public offices that compose its criminal justice system and plunking them in a new facility—a sprawling blockhouse with an estimated cost of $200 million to $400 million.
DINING: One lunch in Bangkok (OK, two)
Reviewing Bangkok Restaurant and Jazz Bar. Third in a month-long series of new-in-2013 restaurants that we hadn’t previously covered.
LOU’S VIEWS: Holiday Xtremes via ISO and NoExit
Holiday offerings range from the pious to the perverse. A review, of sorts, of “Yuletide Celebration” with Sandi Patty and a twisted “Nutcracker”
ALTOM: Obamacare not only spectacular tech failure of 2013
This year, as usual, there were plenty of memorable, human-inspired technology horrors.
MORRIS: Keep the pot boiling for neighbors in need
Red kettles appear at holiday time, but Salvation Army makes a difference all year long.
Pence dismantling public education
After the last election, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the state’s opinions on our state of education.
EDITORIAL: Greatness for Indiana shouldn’t wait
The General Assembly has much to accomplish in its short session.
Pundits watch Indiana for wrong reasons
It wasn’t long ago that the national media watched closely as Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the nation’s most comprehensive education reform package into law.
Local support made Eskenazi feat possible
A little more than four years ago, our community came together like never before. Thanks to you, thanks to leaders from across our central Indiana, thanks to more than 400 Indiana companies and more than 10,000 workers, and thanks to Sidney and Lois Eskenazi and hundreds of generous donors, the new Sidney & Lois Hospital and Eskenazi Health is here for you.
Next up: teen violence
IBJ’s [Nov. 25] editorial endorsing the proposed panhandling ordinance was definitely on point.
LOPRESTI: I’m Lucas Oil Stadium, and I’d like your support
A stadium makes its case as USA Today prepares to choose the nation’s best.
Enough bashing of Coats, religion
The bashing of religion and the Republican Party’s continuing war on women is past being a weary read [Kennedy column, Nov. 18].
HENDERSON: Love can trump constitutional missteps
The fatwa on gay marriage must end. The state Constitution is no toy for the disengaged to manipulate real love. I’m hoping the Legislature does the right thing: reverse the hatred and disinformation that makes us appear like Iran on an evil day.
KENNEDY: A troubling response
Semester end is hectic for college professors. Research papers and final examinations must be graded, last-minute pleas from students who realize they haven’t performed or who feel entitled to special accommodations must be moderated, committees that haven’t completed their assigned tasks during the preceding months must meet—and of course there’s the added stress of the holidays.
Skarbeck: There are no substitutes for buying assets cheaply
The recent white paper issued by investment firm GMO’s James Montier ridicules some of the “innovations” that are popular in the investment field. His criticism addresses concepts like smart beta, risk parity, and real asset inflation hedges.