VANE: Evans bravely went with his principles
Unquestionably, the biggest political news of this young year was the decision by City-County Councilor Jose Evans to join the Republican Party.
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HOWEY: Republicans scald selves with critique
It was lunchtime reading unlike any other Craig Dunn had seen.
MAHERN: Be my waiter but not my neighbor
City-county councilors have a nasty tradition of agreeing with one another to blackball developments within their individual districts.
MARCUS: Lopsided population shift raises alarms
No one pays attention to a sentence buried in the middle of a recent news story out of Indiana University.
WAGNER: The rise of a new Hoosier swing voter
Quick, describe a Hoosier swing voter. White, married, middle-class male from southern Indiana, somewhere between 35 and 55 years old, right?
MORRIS: Looking back, things never looked so good
I’ve been feeling a bit reflective lately as I just completed 22 years at IBJ a few weeks ago.
LOU’S VIEWS: Catching up with a kaleidoscope of reviews
Thoughts on the latest from DK, Acting Up, and an American Pianists Association fellow.
SKARBECK: Alternative investments not worth their high costs
When it comes to choosing the products or services offered by the investment industry, the evidence suggests that when investors pay less, they often get more.
HICKS: Still too early to call Iraq war success or failure
The 10th anniversary of the start of the second Iraq war is an opportunity to reflect upon the economics of the conflict.
DINING: Napping required after Napolese
Last in a month-long series of farm-to-table restaurant reviews.
BENNER: Criticism heaped on NCAA takes toll on rank-and-file
The list of lightning-rod issues is long and, unfortunately, growing.
ALTOM: Google disregards consequences, kills another product
Years ago, the high-tech company that drove me closest to the edge of madness was Microsoft. That firm treated its customers as if they were lucky to have computers. But for sheer frustration, I think Google tops Microsoft.
FEIGENBAUM: All eyes looking to crucial mid-April revenue forecast
We’re just a few short weeks from the mid-April revenue forecast, the critical non-political, non-policy factor that will shape the fiscal 2014-2015 budget—and a handful of other big-buck key bills.
Bill would help education
I write in support of Senate Bill 207, which reinstates in-state tuition rates to undocumented students who were enrolled in a state college or university in 2011.
WHITE: In honor of native son Michael Graves
he architecture of Michael Graves is controversial. Some dismiss his work for its post-modern and overly decorative qualities.
KENNEDY: There’s no free lunch
I continue to be amazed by the pundits and politicians who insist that eviscerating government programs will save money.
EDITORIAL: Lilly’s strategy wooed investors
Eli Lilly and Co. shares have more than doubled over the past four years, an impressive run-up that has as much to do with the company’s well-crafted investor-relations message as it does scientific innovation.
MAURER: Prepare for great new Knight book
Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., in his shareholder letter of March 1, 2013, took a page out of Bob Knight’s new book “The Power of Negative Thinking,” a twist on the best-selling treatise of yore by Norman Vincent Peale.
EDITORIAL: Save the archives
State lawmakers are understandably preoccupied with big issues like jobs and education, but before the session ends, they should attack another problem that has nearly been forgotten.
LOU’S VIEWS: The critics are coming … the critics are coming
Journalists from San Francisco to D.C. and from New Haven to New Orleans descend on Indy for a first-ever critical mass of theater.