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SHELLA: Mourdock vs. Lugar isn’t about Mourdock
When the Tea Party Express sent representatives from Georgia and California to endorse Mourdock, they couldn’t answer a simple question about why they support the challenger.
BOEHM: It’s time to talk about expanding Unigov
Our government structure has not kept pace with our economic and cultural growth.
LOU’S VIEWS: Blood, spoof and fears
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Indiana and newcomer Acting Up mix it up.
DINING: Naan finer than Clay Oven’s hot bread
First in a month-long series of reviews of new ethnic eateries.
SKARBECK: Bankruptcy shows how far financial system has to go
The failure of brokerage MF Global—the eighth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history—is troubling: It demonstrates that behavior and incentives have not really changed in some corners of our financial system, and that regulators are still behind the curve.
WEB REVIEW: Project creators get a kick out of Kickstarter
Having surpassed 1 million users and $100 million pledged, Kickstarter is working to change the way we think about funding.
HICKS: Schools and leadership keys to community growth
Fixing schools, paving roads, building sidewalks, sprucing up parks and cutting government waste are hard, long, inelegant and thankless tasks—but they are the ones that really matter.
BENNER: Of conference realignment and other absurdities
Of this, that and the other while wondering how Tom Osborne became a Big Ten icon.
ALTOM: Remember, what’s new isn’t always what’s best
I’m a technological curmudgeon and proud of it.
Rusthoven adds to political cynicism
I was surprised to read Peter Rusthoven’s incendiary [Oct. 31] column accusing Melina Kennedy of making borderline “criminal accusations” against Mayor Ballard.
FRAZIER: Sacred cows? They may not be worth it
Every organization has them. The employees who are deemed sacred cows by the work force and, like the banks deemed “too big to fail,” are considered by those in leadership “too [fill in the blank] to go.”
KENNEDY: A cautionary tale about politics and policy
The Litebox story makes a bigger point … about the entire policy of cities “buying” jobs by offering financial incentives to companies that promise to move and/or expand.
MORRIS: Are you paying attention to election season?
The problem with the Indianapolis mayoral campaign and most others is, by the time the election gets here, after all the negative commercials and nasty exchanges, we are so disgusted with the whole process, we don’t care who wins.
EDITORIAL: Learn right lessons from Litebox gaffe
Gov. Mitch Daniels has been derided in recent days for standing next to California businessman Bob Yanagihara and declaring, “We like visionaries, we love inventors, we love entrepreneurs. You are all those things.”
BENNER: Happiness is possible even as the losses stack up
Happiness comes from how you feel about yourself, your family, your friends. Joy is external and temporary. Yes, I’m talking about IU and the Colts.
TRAVEL: Gambling on wedded bliss in Las Vegas
We did not want a traditional wedding. So we went to the traditional home of non-traditional nuptials.
DINING: Yes, Virginia, there’s another good local doughnut shop
Last in a month-long series of reviews of “en route” eateries. This week: Virginia Kay’s Doughnuts.
LOU’S VIEWS: Adieu, Anderson
Are we better off, as arts patrons, then we were five years or so ago when Maxwell Anderson joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
KIM: For long-term investment treats, don’t be tricked
Don’t let the excitement and envy of somebody else’s hitting an improbable jackpot blind you to the cold, hard, mathematical probabilities of long-term investment success.