EDITORIAL: Indy Rezone initiative off to good start
The city unveiled the Indy Rezone plan July 5, and it’s clear from the top of the project flow chart that fresh perspectives are welcome.
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KIM: Have we seen second quarter of 2012 before?
The U.S. equity market tested the confidence and resolve of investors in the second quarter of 2012.
HICKS: Job creation, destruction not mutually exclusive
I am always saddened and more than a bit disappointed when I hear politicians promise to create jobs.
MORRIS: Young racers aspire to big league
USAC’s quarter-midget racing is a popular sport worth your attention.
EDITORIAL: Road construction carries high costs
Hamilton County motorists may be forgiven the occasional bout of road rage this summer.
Laikin blazed trail
I cut my teeth after college in the early years at BrightPoint working for Bob Laikin's enterprise.
Jefferson, conservatism don’t always mix well
One should generally be skeptical of conservatives quoting Thomas Jefferson in aid of their positions.
WILLIAMS: Biodiesel makes sense for Indy
The rebirth of downtown and its continued viability are the result of clustered assets—hotels, the convention center, sporting facilities, familiar restaurants—and a strong convention business.
KENNEDY: This time, Sharia law misunderstood
I participated in a discussion of “Sharia Beyond the Headlines” at the Indianapolis InterChurch Center.
SKARBECK: Leadership, not regulation key to changing behavior
In the midst of hard-core lobbying by the banking industry designed to soften the drive for more stringent financial regulation, some key institutions haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory lately.
HICKS: To tax or spend? That is the question for government
There is a great (and vituperative) disagreement on government’s role in stabilizing a recession.
ALTOM: Online detective work can amaze and find new markets
Google Earth is one of Google’s odder and spottier applications. It started life as Keyhole, a 3-D mapping program originally paid for by the CIA and subsequently purchased by Google in 2004.
BENNER: Let me tell you something about the great Charlie Fouty
I always have had a soft spot for basketball referees.
DINING: North-side hotel offers surprising destination dining
Third in a month-long series of “Grill” restaurant reviews. This week: Grille 39.
LOU’S VIEWS: Indy International Film Fest favorites worth the weight
A bodybuilder looking for love, high-wire walkers and super heroines are among my favorites at this year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival, set for July 19-29.
COLLINS: Higgs boson vanishes in political black hole
The physicists who made the discovery, Obama noted, all had health insurance.
DOUTHAT: We’re still deciding who isn’t fit to live
It’s easy for us to look back and pass judgment on yesterday’s eugenicists.
KRUGMAN: Ongoing questions on Mitt’s gray areas
What a man does with his money is surely a major clue to his character.
FARGO: We aren’t special, but we have potential
The goal will be to divide and conquer on election day.
WAGNER: More than ever, what was he thinking?
Which makes you wonder why they continue to do, say and write such dumb stuff.