RUSTHOVEN: A chilling threat to faith-based services
Everyone’s freedom is at risk when a president can order someone to do something “without charge.”
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MAURER: Politics prevail over wisdom
There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory of creationism. Creationism seeks a supernatural explanation and must be taken on blind faith. It is not science.
EDITORIAL: Senate smoking ban bad for business
The statewide smoking ban approved by the Indiana Senate Feb. 29 was riddled with exemptions, seeming to prove what many people have already concluded: The majority of our lawmakers aren’t concerned with public health; they care far more about the right of business owners to operate without government intrusion.
MEREDITH: Plan violates democratic role of the public in education
Indiana policymakers should not disregard the democratic will of the public in an attempt to push the reform efforts statewide.
CHU: Strategies should be launched in schools across the state
The Mind Trust recognizes that true innovation takes place in school buildings and not state or district offices.
TORR: Right-to-work won’t cost a single legislator his or her job
Our own polling showed that even union members and self-identified Democrats supported right-to-work by slim margins.
DELANEY: Teachers, working class will reject austerity world view
Union leaders will organize their get-out-the-vote efforts at a far higher level than in the past.
DOWD: GOP is now the Ghastly Outdated Party
President Barack Obama has deranged conservatives just as W. deranged liberals.
FRIEDMAN: The U.S., an OPEC member? Potentially
The knee-jerk debate we’re again having over who is responsible for higher oil prices fundamentally misses huge changes.
STOSSEL: Politicians fiddle while fiscal crisis looms
We must cut. But I fear Americans aren’t up for that.
WINSTON: Mays personifies the best of black history
Mays’ efforts at community involvement saved The Indianapolis Recorder.
WOUDENBERG: Taking one’s chances with vaccinations
While certainly not fun, a case of the measles rarely causes death.
DAVIS: Governing from behind a computer screen
SEAS puts the analytical power of the U.S. military on our desktops.
SHELLA: Clearly, Dick Lugar is no Charlie White
There has been a lot of disinformation and misinformation in Indiana politics of late with regard to the residency issue.
EARLY: Vividly dreaming of a Daniels nomination
I saw senior citizens throw away their crutches and dance in the aisles.
VAUGHN: Crush corruption before it gets in the water
The mind-set seems to be that these are individual transgressions.
CAMPBELL: Indianapolis has too many not-for-profits
We would all get together, rent out a ballroom and invite the CEO and board chair of every non-for-profit serving Indianapolis.
KETZENBERGER: Gerrymandering surpasses ignorance
Gerrymandering, not the lack of a high intelligence quotient, stunts evolution of the General Assembly.
KANE: Glad that Bosma spiked the creationism bill
Never in a science class should it be taught alongside the theory of evolution.
BOEHM: Feeble home rule is a drag on progress
Action by the Legislature is often required to permit local initiatives to proceed.