MARCUS: Training and education aren’t same thing
Ignorant and bigoted people are encouraged to run for public office when they witness this dumbing-down of society.
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SMITH: Ban counterfeits to preserve critically important institution
Across all time and all cultures, wise leaders and wise societies have recognized that marriage is good, and wise societies have protected and nurtured it.
KENNEDY: About those intended and unintended consequences …
Even if one believes that same-sex marriages are a “problem,” enacting House Joint Resolution 6 will change nothing.
KENNEDY: Seattle is benefiting from comprehensive youth program
Question: What is one big idea from another city that you’d like to implement here? Answer: As a young man, my father left the shores of Greece for the hope and opportunity of America. Once here, he worked to realize the American dream: start a family, work hard and save enough money to start his […]
GIBSON: A bus system like Charlotte’s would offer many benefits
Charlotte, N.C., operates approximately 325 buses with 74 routes on a budget of $110 million while IndyGo has an annual budget of $55 million with only 150 buses and 29 routes.
CARSON: Houston’s mass transit system is helping solve problems
Houston’s comprehensive mass transit plan, which incorporates neighborhood economic development and community control of infrastructure, got its start 20 years ago amid cries that it couldn’t happen.
BALLARD: Atlanta impresses with redeveloped steel mill location
Atlanta turned the contaminated site of a former steel mill into an urban jewel called Atlantic Station.
FRIEDMAN: Fiscal, environmental mess cries for leaders
The world is caught in a dangerous feedback loop—higher oil prices and climate disruptions lead to higher food prices, higher food prices lead to more instability, more instability leads to higher oil prices.
KRISTOF: Paying teachers more would be a bargain
These days, brilliant women become surgeons and investment bankers—and 47 percent of America’s kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers come from the bottom one-third of their college classes (as measured by SAT scores).
DOUTHAT: Barack Obama’s very liberal intervention
The ultimate hope of liberal warfare is to fight as virtuously as possible, and with the minimum of risk.
HOWEY: The beaten path between Indiana and Japan
What has become clear to me … is how important our Japanese friends and partners are to the 21st century Indiana experience.
BONIFIELD: Young voters could decide the next election
If they expect to win back the House and the governor’s mansion, Democrats need to invest in an infrastructure that will begin to engage young Hoosiers.
LADWIG: Republican ‘change’ disappoints in Indiana
Establishment Republicans are in danger of becoming as addicted to government aid as countless other individuals and interest groups.
MYERS: Don’t overreach on collective bargaining
My company is a member of our local chamber of commerce, and I’m about as pro-business as anyone can be. But that does not require me to be anti-union.
WAGNER: Beltway opportunity borne of Indiana roots
I’d never have been halfway around the world climbing all over nuclear research reactors if I hadn’t taken a few risks in Indiana.
KRULL: Beware the apparent mandate of a landslide
We tend to think that elections in which one party or the other racks up an overwhelming majority should calm the body politic.
FARGO: Sure the schools are failing? Check it out
Unfortunately, journalists still sometimes fall into the trap of accepting what “everybody knows” without doing enough questioning.
MUTZ: Gale of opportunity blowing toward IPS
The New Orleans school system, which endured almost total devastation due to Hurricane Katrina, may give us a model to follow. When given an opportunity for a fresh start, the city developed a combination of public and charter schools.
MAHERN: What’s the problem with school vouchers, really?
Why not take the tax money we would have spent sending children to a failing system and give their parents the opportunity to send them to the private school of their choice? After all, that’s what we do when it comes to higher ed.
RUSTHOVEN: Urbana is actually about school choice
The Indiana State Teachers Association opposes vouchers with every fiber of its being. So does the Democratic legislative caucus, supported by ISTA (and ISTA dues money).