HETRICK: O say, can you see, by democracy’s dimming light?
Had we applied Sen. Vaneta Becker's rules to “America the Beautiful” in 1976, George Carlin and I would, presumably, have owed the piper.
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DINING: Et tu, Bru?
There’s very little that hasn’t been piled betwixt beef and bun, but while Bru Burger Bar doesn’t break any new ground, it does bring a shot of dining energy to mid-Mass Ave.
FEIGENBAUM: Right-to-work just one of big stories brewing in ’12
Hoosiers may never have started a January with the likely litany of top 10 stories of the year lined up quite as transparently as they seem for 2012.
Markets can rein in health care costs
Congratulations to Rob Hillman, Anthem and UnitedHealthcare [Nov. 26] for allowing patients and health care consumers to shop for lower-cost providers within their networks.
Technology already helping commuters
Richard Sullivan’s letter to the editor [Jan. 2] makes some great observations about how few people take full advantage of Indianapolis’ existing transit resources.
BEGO: The godsend of right-to-work is freedom
Ultimately, right-to-work is an issue of the right to private property, one’s labor, which we as Hoosiers expect both sides of the aisle at the Statehouse to honor and defend.
RUSTHOVEN: Admiring gratitude for the Polian era
Bill Polian deserves a huge chunk of the credit for the Colts’ becoming a premier NFL franchise, and a tremendous source of pride and pleasure to our town.
MAURER: 2011 marked by generosity, ignorance
The Indiana Legislature unleashed the serpent of prejudice and hatred that may send Indiana reeling economically, socially and morally.
EDITORIAL: Colts owner reverses field in firing Polians
No one can argue with the outstanding results the Indianapolis Colts saw under Bill and Chris Polian.
KIM: Predictions often worthless, but take a look at these
There are some highly experienced and skilled investors who make unconventional predictions I think are worth paying attention to.
HICKS: Job prospects should factor into student loans
College education is expensive (mostly due to foregone earnings), but in terms of expenses, paying tuition for state schools is far less than half the cost of going to college.
MEREDITH: Let’s not be so quick to abandon schools in peril
The state is failing our schools and then punishing the very schools that carry the heaviest burden.
HARRIS: Takeover threats have a way of moving the needle
With the state continuing to apply pressure on districts to improve student achievement, it’s time for bold new ideas.
FRIEDMAN: We’re out of Iraq, but will pluralism root?
Now every other Arab democracy movement is trying to replicate it—without a U.S. midwife.
SOWELL: Focus on the future instead of Newt’s past
We have to play the hand we were dealt.
STOSSEL: The corporate perspective on Obamacare
When countries move to a government-funded system, taxes rise to crushing levels, as they have in Europe.
NOCERA: OPEC, NCAA aren’t all that different
The NCAA’s real role is to oversee the collusion of university athletic departments.
CAMPBELL: Taking in the enormity of the Super Bowl
There is but one event that all of America sits down to experience together.
KINGSOLVER: College students need tax holiday for books
A clear disparity exists between Indiana’s brick-and-mortar textbook retailers and their online counterparts.
WINSTON: Marion County is key to state Dems in ’12
In 2011, we witnessed what happens when Republicans cut into the Democratic margin in Marion County.