TEASLEY: Will we tolerate school choice chaos?
Indiana’s school choice movement is experiencing a lot of growing pains these days, particularly with charter and private schools. Patience and tolerance is called for now.
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KENNEDY: Equality economics hitting home
When it comes to the culture-war politics of same-sex marriage, our governor and legislators would be well advised to listen to Indiana’s business and corporate leadership and forgo their pious pandering to the shrinking number of Hoosiers spooked by social change.
A sensible appeal for Obamacare repeal
Sen. Dan Coats makes the best case yet for killing health care reform in its current form and taking another stab at it.
EDITORIAL: Delegating mayor must lead on crime
Simply setting a vision won’t work on crime.
LOU’S VIEWS: Where there’s ‘Smoke,’ there’s fervor
Gospel musical “Smoke on the Mountain” once again a dinner-theater highlight.
Skarbeck: Weak results take glow off ‘risk parity’ strategy
The popular institutional investment strategy called “risk parity” has produced dreadful investment results this year.
Multitasking, if it exists, is not productive
The truth is you can really only do one thing at a time effectively, but sometimes multiple technologies can be focused on a single task.
Use sports model for schools
So why not follow the sports franchise model to pull our schools out of their sorry state?
MAURER: Community leadership is legitimate source of civic pride
Unlike public safety and education, this is a city asset we have in abundance.
EDITORIAL: IPS’ new chief can’t dilly-dally
Ferebee must be bold, decisive in effort to reverse district’s decline.
Kim: Bill Gates’ favorite teacher can help your child–for free
Wouldn’t it be great if there were an online platform offering an easy and engaging way to sharpen skills and improve knowledge so your student can hit the ground running when school starts? Khan Academy fits the bill.
Hicks: Same-sex debate obscures larger family crisis
Same-sex marriage or household arrangements possess no economic consequences. However, the debate itself does have consequences because it crowds out honest deliberation on the real problems of collapsing families.
HETRICK: Two friends of a different color walk into an Indiana bar
If Indiana puts a constitutional ban on gay marriage, it will be one of the only times the constitution is used to deny a right.
DINING: At Pawn Shop Pub, the smoke has cleared on good bar food
Second in a month-long series of reviews of game-piece restaurants.
LOU’S VIEWS: In two recent novels, a cop copes with apocalypse
“The Last Policeman” and “Countdown City,” by Butler U.’s Ben H. Winters, both provide page-turning pleasures.
Student loan debt could cripple recovery
Congress should act immediately to reverse increase in interest rate.
RUSTHOVEN: This is post-racial America?
The final days of June made me wonder if we’re ever going to get past race.
BENNER: Victory Field hits baseball sweet spot for fans, old cronies
The Vic, which opened in 1996, looks as nice as it did on opening night.