WOUDENBERG: No one is entitled to specialty license plates
As much we don’t like to admit it, our Legislature is allowed to pick sides.
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VAUGHN: Lengthy laundry list awaits White’s successor
Lawson has more than just the image problem to work on.
BOEHM: Courts free to ‘call ’em like they see ’em’
Indiana’s appellate courts are the envy of most of our surrounding states.
DAVIS: Rallying more women to the political process
For all the uncertainty of politics we know one thing: When women vote, women win.
WINSTON: Why women will swing hard to Democrats
Would your business consistently do things to alienate 54 percent of its customers?
SHELLA: No truce at the Statehouse over social issues
Long knows that, in order to keep his leadership post, he has to give in to a number of conservative demands.
DINING: Tuscan-do attitude elevates Italian eatery
Last in a series of reviews of newish Italian restaurants. This week: Lorenzo’s.
BENNER: The rest of the Manning story will be told on the field
There is one test Peyton Manning hasn’t passed yet: He has not been hit in nearly two years by a blitzing opponent.
HETRICK: All the news that’s fit to tweet, post and petition
Ever the junkie for news, behind-the-scenes details, snarky comments and additional perspective—and increasingly unwilling to wait for an evening newscast or morning paper to get my fix—I often sit with my iPhone close at hand, checking feeds from Twitter and Facebook.
LOU’S VIEWS: The art we leave behind
At services for my daughter, there came an outpouring of support—much of it from the Indy arts community—that I can compare only to my first time looking out over the Grand Canyon.
Kennedy’s finger on pulse
Kudos to Sheila Suess Kennedy for her insightful op-ed about the essence of an educated and informed society.
Pay for your own contraception
Bruce Hetrick [March 12 column] misses the most obvious point in his support of “Obama Care.”
Smoking ban is an accomplishment
Indiana will now protect 95 percent of people while at work and also allow citizens to eat at any restaurant in the state without having to encounter cigarette or cigar smoke.
ALTOM: Limbaugh controversy comes with social-media lesson
The pressure brought on Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers was through technology that wasn’t commonly used back when the talk radio host was building his successful brand.
WILLIAMS: It really is the right to work for less
In which category do the 23 right-to-work states lead the nation? In poverty.
KENNEDY: Legislature has own band of bullies
Indiana’s legislators couldn’t find it in their hearts to pass a law that would protect vulnerable children against bullying in our schools. But at least 20 of them found the time to do a little bullying of their own.
EDITORIAL: Indianapolis’ new education deputy should work fast
If Eugene White leaves Indianapolis Public Schools—maybe not so coincidentally near Jason Kloth’s April 1 move into the City-County Building—the city has an even better opportunity to signal it’s a place where reform-minded educators can thrive.
MORRIS: Second Amendment rights under attack
I’m worried that, if given a second term, our sitting president will launch a full-scale attack on our Second Amendment rights.
SKARBECK: Observers cry foul over pension fund proposal
The legislation would change the formula used to calculate pension costs and effectively allow companies to lower their annual contributions.
HICKS: State smoking ban recognizes value of life
The workplace smoking ban signed by Gov. Mitch Daniels this week was a much-needed law. Of course, my Libertarian friends will object to its intrusion on liberty, and my leftist friends will say it didn’t go far enough. To them I ask, “What are you smoking?”