HICKS: The joke’s really on us with Social Security
If treated as a financial investment, Social Security is a really effective way to destroy wealth.
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LOU’S VIEWS: Early Noel Coward play suddenly back in vogue
"Fallen Angels” concerns a pair of London gal pals who have in common marriages in need of spark and a past hot-and-heavy relationship with the same man.
BENNER: Indiana Sports Corp. scores; Pacers need butts in seats
Thoughts on this, that and the other.
WEB REVIEW: Goodreads helps readers find their next favorite novel
Goodreads compiles the ratings and reviews from users everywhere and has a powerful “recommendation engine.”
RACE: Walkable neighborhoods are a good investment
Houses in communities that are easy to navigate on foot command a higher price-per-square-foot.
Irsay made the right wager
I find myself taking issue with Peter Rusthoven’s [March 19] after-the-fact column about “Irsay’s colossal wager.”
Williams used stats selectively
It is amazing how statistics can read exactly how you need them to read to prove your point [Williams Viewpoint, March 26].
Guns are for ‘homeland defense’
Congratulations on a well-written [Morris column, March 26] about Second Amendment rights under attack.
Column whipped up fears
Greg Morris’ [March 26] column was pure fear mongering, filled with innuendoes and false statements.
CONOVER: How to get our manufacturing jobs back
At the current rate, it’ll be eight more years before manufacturing employment is back to where it was in 2007.
RUSTHOVEN: Lugar attacks growing surreal
The distorted attacks on Sen. Dick Lugar typify what most Americans now despise about today’s politics.
EDITORIAL: Chamber merger can help unify region
If our region is to compete effectively, it needs to present—at least to outsiders—a unified front.
MAURER: Cancer fighter Endocyte shows promise
It is evident that the Endocyte crew feels confident.
MEREDITH: Respect, reverence has devolved to blame, distrust, sadness
The Indiana’s Department of Education appears to have an attitude that teaching is just a stopover on the way to something better.
HARRIS: Reforms elevate teaching profession to the status it deserves
Teaching should be our nation’s highest calling. Indiana’s recent education reforms take us a big step in that direction.
DOWD: Baptism of the dead won’t go away for Romney
Wiesel calls ‘the whole process very strange,’ and faults Romney, a Mormon stake president.
BROOKS: Will Obama go All In on big domestic issues?
It will be interesting, over the course of this campaign, to see what’s underneath the cageyness.
KRUGMAN: Quiet group is about lobbyists, guns and money
Now, ALEC isn’t single-handedly responsible for the corporatization of our political life.
FRIEDMAN: Big debate over future prosperity goes missing
What is American capitalism today, and what will enable it to thrive in the 21st century?
STOSSEL: Complex societies like ours need simple laws
Any attempt to manage a modern society is more like a bull in a darkened china shop than a finely tuned machine.