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RUSTHOVEN: Daniels laid foundation for Pence
GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike Pence is proposing a 10-percent state income tax cut, a growth-spurring step that would benefit more than 90 percent of Hoosier businesses that pay individual income tax, and would give Indiana the lowest combined tax burden in our region.
RACE: Washington Street rife with missed opportunities
Some of Washington Street's vitality can be recovered. An urban design plan for the street would identify a framework of existing and future landmarks, edges, open spaces and gateways.
MAURER: Nursing babies into successful students
Goodwill’s team members concluded that if they were going to effectively reduce generational poverty and reverse these trends, they had to start with babies, especially with first-time mothers in poverty.
EDITORIAL: Schoolteachers need more upside
Education reform in Indiana has come to a point where lawmakers need to find ways to attract more of the best and brightest into one of the most important of occupations, particularly as baby boomers retire.
KIM: Beware conflicts of interest when seeking financial help
There is no such thing as unbiased advice, and conflicts of interest are not automatically bad. However, it’s up to you to take steps to protect yourself from becoming “skinned” in this jungle.
HICKS: Reflecting on a half century of economic growth
This summer marks the 50th year of Walmart, America’s manned space exploration and—youthful appearances notwithstanding—your columnist.
RENNINGER: Community bankers fret a lot these days
Several strong headwinds make future viability of many smaller institutions a questionable proposition.
CONNER: Uncertain times in the merger and acquisition market
Dealmakers are in a period of unprecedented uncertainty. Several factors are contributing. Here are questions I get.
MEREDITH: Arts instruction reaches far beyond coursework
It seems that policymakers have created just enough direction to create stress over how to weave test scores into the evaluations of arts teachers.
HARRIS: Evaluating all teachers is critical, regardless of subject
When compensating teachers based on test scores and other performance measures, how should teachers in fine arts be reviewed?
BROOKS: Replace the onerous act with common-sense policies
Like many Hoosiers, I was disappointed that the Supreme Court upheld the mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.
RESKE: Law brought huge protections but needs improvement
While the top priorities for Congress must be improving our economy and creating jobs, it is also important to ensure the implementation of the Affordable Care Act does not lead to counterproductive results.
COLLINS: Where jobs, resilience, are plentiful
Right now you are probably asking yourself: “What would it be like to live in a place with an unemployment rate of 1 percent?”
KRUGMAN: Romney exemplifies plutocrat pathos
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” So wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald—and he didn’t just mean that they have more money.
BROOKS: Where our new upper crust went wrong
Through most of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Protestant Establishment sat atop the American power structure.
SOWELL: Now we’re even trashing success
There was a time, within living memory, when achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.
MARCUS: Labor’s vast potential going to waste
Today, unions are being peeled so that they become smaller.
BOEHM: Put justice facility back on the agenda
The mayor announced that the preferred site of a proposed transportation center will be the city-owned block of Washington Street between the City-County Building and the jail.
WINSTON: A plan to make mass transit a reality
Here in central Indiana, we have the perfect opportunity to make improvements to our mass transit system.