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.
Most observers will agree that Louisiana isn’t exactly famous for leading the way in progressive public policy
Elected officials and candidates asked him that same week to remain on the job, a testament to his track record.
The Indianapolis furniture czar got his chance to run things his way.
Somehow we think behaving churlishly is acceptable.
Discussions of ‘bests’ in the arts are silly … and fun. Here are my picks, and those of the Indiana Film Journalists Associations, for the best films of the year.
Last in a series of visits to eateries that have recently moved into the digs of former eateries. This week: End of the Line Public House.
