KENNEDY: Listen to the Millennials
Last month, the media and much of the American public fixated on oral arguments in two same-sex marriage cases being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Indiana leads in Medicaid change
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable. When it comes to health care, the best thing for every Hoosier, rich or poor, is more choices and more incentives for preventive care. In the debate over Medicaid expansion, our aim must be to protect the health of Hoosiers in need and maintain the fiscal health of our state. Expanding traditional Medicaid cannot accomplish both.
LOU’S VIEWS: Rock solid ‘American Idiot’ works for more than just Green Day fans
Angst-ridden musical a highlight of the Broadway in Indianapolis season.
DINING: Geist pub shows Asian influence
Second in a month-long series of food-and-a-drink eatery reviews.
HETRICK: Lamenting our slow-motion political sausage factory
Local government reform, it seems, is meddling when legislators don’t like it and meritorious when they do.
BENNER: NCAA regional brought coaching royalty to Indianapolis
Rick Pitino, Tom Izzo and Mike Krzyzewski would be the making of a pretty good three-fourths of a coaching Mount Rushmore.
FEIGENBAUM: Legislative deadline spawns flurry of activity
In one 48-hour stretch early in the first week of April, lawmakers provided a truer lay of the session land than in all the days leading up to it.
Skarbeck: Stockman ‘rant’ draws welcomed responses
A lengthy New York Times opinion piece by David Stockman has set off a firestorm of response from a variety of sources who editorialize about stock markets and politics.
Hicks: Three bad ideas that just won’t disappear
Perhaps difficult economic times unleash the power of long-discredited ideas into general circulation, because three bad intellectual influences merit noting—one from the political right, one bipartisan folly and one from the left.
KIM: Discipline in the short term required for long-term gain
Investors fret about the stock market. The market has more than doubled from its low four years ago. Am I too late? There is still so much uncertainty, here and abroad. Are stocks too risky?
HICKS: Major sea change about the debt under way
A public fight has emerged among economists over the past few weeks, which likely spells major policy changes over the coming years.
COTA: Learn-to-play website taps into instinctive desire to learn guitar
Instinct aims to make playing music as natural as singing it, because “playing music is one of the most natural things a human can do.”
DINING: Tortilla reform on Mass Ave
First in a month-long series of food-and-a-drink eatery reviews.
LOU’S VIEWS: A critical mass of theater critics descend on Indy
A pack of conferencing critics had their eyes opened to Indy’s arts pleasures. In turn, they opened my eyes to some things I shouldn’t take for granted.
Healthy Indiana Plan has too little capacity
As a leader in the United Methodist faith tradition, I and our church are called to reach out to the poor and society’s marginalized.
Biologics misunderstood
In “Profits at center of biosimilars debate” [March 18], the author refers to attempted copies of biotech medicines as “generic biotech medicines.” This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of biosimilars.
WILLIAMS: Cost-cutting obsession is myopic
Often with great pride, elected officials and those seeking elective office exclaim that Indiana is a paragon of fiscal probity and that bountiful state reserves demonstrate the caliber of Hoosier leadership.
RUSTHOVEN: Tails ought not wag the dog
Mike Pence has been governor almost three months, so The Indianapolis Star’s Matt Tully has decided it’s time to quit stalling and simply declare Pence a failure.
MAURER: Want money? Have an idea and a plan
I have a favorite excuse for failure in business: “It takes money to make money.”