On a careful review of Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock’s federal budget plan released Nov. 15, it’s obvious that Gov. Mitch Daniels, who knows something about federal budgeting, is in charge of the budget, not the state treasurer.
As we wrap up the final quarter of 2011, it’s clear the struggling economy is not a deterrent to many entrepreneurs.
Last month, the Obama administration decided to delay decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline for at least a year, pushing it past November 2012. Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar is leading the fight to secure prompt approval.
The Mind Trust’s provocative new report on the future of Indianapolis Public Schools is sure to lead to a vigorous debate over how the district should operate, including whom the public should hold accountable for its performance—the publicly elected board that controls it now or the mayor of Indianapolis.
Every once in a while I come across timeless advice like Davis Advisors’ “The Wisdom of Great Investors: Insights from Some of History’s Greatest Investment Minds.”
Last year, you brought me coal; this year, could you fill my pickup truck with gasoline instead?
Without an election, what will make an appointed superintendent inclined to pay even the slightest attention to any school board member, teacher, parent or student when they offer suggestions to improve the quality of education?
The governor has control over the state board, but the superintendent controls the agenda.
We are present again at one of those great unravelings.
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
The right of access to information is like a muscle—if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies.
If an artist says that it is art, who are we to gainsay it?
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.
We are behind the curve and becoming less competitive all the time.
Every time this man applied that advice to his particular corner of government, “All hell broke loose.”
A male candidate is more likely to get away with the bare-knuckled political brawls than a young mother.
No one should have to join a union if they don’t wish to and unions should respect that.
Don’t be surprised if our Statehouse is routinely on the nightly news.
This year represents the best chance that it will, and the current economic climate remains the best argument that it should.
