MAURER: Have some year-end downtime? Exercise your brain
As is the custom for the last column of the year, I present to you a puzzle.
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Where are the jobs from the stimulus?
According to Sheila Suess Kennedy’s [Dec. 19] column, doubling down on the $1 trillion stimulus package from 2009 will result in a panacea of new jobs (23,000) per $1 billion.
Redistricting push is unnecessary
In “The Guns of August,” Barbara Tuchman wrote, “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
Mourdock budget fails honesty test
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.
SLAUGHTER: The prudently fast are winning the race
As we wrap up the final quarter of 2011, it’s clear the struggling economy is not a deterrent to many entrepreneurs.
RUSTHOVEN: Lugar’s wisdom on display against Obama
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.
EDITORIAL: Mayoral control is best for IPS
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.
KIM: Here’s timeless advice that will serve you well
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.”
HICKS: An open letter to an elf from an economist
Last year, you brought me coal; this year, could you fill my pickup truck with gasoline instead?
PORTER: Keep the office directly accountable to Hoosier voters
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?
BEHNING: An appointed superintendent would streamline education
The governor has control over the state board, but the superintendent controls the agenda.
BROOKS: A new kind of revolution for a new era
We are present again at one of those great unravelings.
SOWELL: Congressional gridlock may rescue Obama
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
TAFT: Jobs will bring back worn neighborhoods
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
FARGO: Keep some cheer for better public access
The right of access to information is like a muscle—if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies.
MAHERN: Politics, art collide on the Cultural Trail
If an artist says that it is art, who are we to gainsay it?
MYERS: Lauding Wishard’s many unsung miracles
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.
MUTZ: Faster—faster—on education attainment
We are behind the curve and becoming less competitive all the time.
LADWIG: Indiana run ‘like a business’? Not quite
Every time this man applied that advice to his particular corner of government, “All hell broke loose.”