DRESSLAR: Behold the new politics of school reform
Traditional adversarial relationships between school district and teachers’ union leadership are evolving toward more collaborative relationships.
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MORELAND: Let’s do more to improve community health
With so much evidence showing we are losing control of our health, why can we not collectively grab hold of this issue? I believe one reason is that Indiana is not an easy place to be healthy.
SWAYZE: Behind the Planned Parenthood debate
This certainly isn’t about health care. Approximately 97 percent of abortions are done on healthy women with healthy babies.
KRULL: Left, right wings keep abortion battle raging
Both sides, of course, claim the public supports their position.
FERGUSON: Defunding sends states on dangerous path
Much more worrying to me is the fact that many of the poorest women (and men) in the state will be denied basic health services at least temporarily.
MORRIS: Check out Conner Prairie’s new $4 million gem
When I knew I was going to the exhibit opening, I was pleased because I’d heard so much about it, but I wasn’t expecting to emerge enthusiastically recommending it to just about everyone I talk to. Yet, that’s what happened.
EDITORIAL: A move to new digs isn’t far-fetched for Angie’s List
The idea of Angie’s List someday pulling up stakes just east of downtown and moving its 650 employees to Fishers, for example, is discouraging for anyone who recognizes the importance of a healthy city core, but the possibility should come as no surprise.
Get behind Ballard’s charter school push
I support and applaud Mayor Greg Ballard’s actions regarding the city’s incorporation of failing schools.
More support for Dilliard’s
After we lost the Lazarus and Ayres stores in the area, I felt an answer might be to get Dillard’s.
Dillard’s a great pick to replace Nordstrom
I agree 110 percent Dillard’s would be perfect for Circle Centre mall. Dillard’s is much like the old L.S. Ayres—a great selection of clothing, etc., and just a classy store.
GUY: I have no predictions about the future
Those who try to predict the future do not tell us their track records, but they do ask us to buy their books.
MARCUS: Hold the celebration; reality is just ahead
Frequently, Hoosiers ride as passengers in one of the front cars on the business roller coaster.
SKARBECK: Latest investment tool to tame risk is no panacea
The idea behind tail-risk hedging is to provide protection to a portfolio against a disastrous event that would wreak havoc on the markets—a so-called “black swan” event made famous by Nassim Taleb’s book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.”
HICKS: Absence of fathers has dire economic impact
Poverty in America is overwhelmingly caused by two things: failing to graduate from high school and single parenting.
BENNER: America should cut LeBron James a little slack
Isn’t it funny—or, maybe, not so funny—how we like to hate on sports figures?
STYLE: Local entrepreneur teaches upholstery staples
Shelly Leer had planned to start ModHomeEc on a small scale, but has found it tough to keep it there. She’s had to double class sizes from three students to six since January and has started offering three-day, out-of-town workshops in Chicago.
DINING: Hotcakes Emporium serves big, light and fluffy stacks
Housed in what was, briefly, the home of a failed deli, Hotcakes Emporium has the key elements of the breakfast joints I grew up with at the Jersey shore.
LOU’S VIEWS: Exploring museum’s new discovery channels
It’s impossible for those of us who have raised kids with the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis to imagine what it’s like to enter it, as a child, for the first time.
ALTOM: Don’t sweat the cancer risk of cell phones
The evidence strongly shows that, for the business user, cell phones are the least of our worries, unless we’re in the habit of answering them in dense traffic.
Community lost important builder
For nearly two decades, Lloyd Tucker quietly plied his trade as a pioneer in urban redevelopment.