BENNER: Look in mirror to see what ails college football
If college football is the product of a corrupt system, why is it so incredibly popular?
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ALTOM: Stashing your assets? Find out which safe is best
It turns out that safe sales have blossomed recently, because investors fleeing the thrashing stock market are now often sitting on gold, jewelry and even cash.
Fair tragedy stirred Coliseum memories
On the last night of October 1963, a propane tank exploded during the final presentation of an ice show. Seventy-four members of the audience were killed.
We’re rebalancing, not losing our way
In response to “Congress let us down across the board” [Doran Moreland column in the Aug. 22 Forefront], has the author considered that the sharp divide in Congress might have something to do with the trillions of dollars at stake?
Health law hitting insurance agents
Not only are these “minimum medical loss ratios” destabilizing state insurance markets, thus leaving consumers with fewer choices, but they’re also putting insurance agents out of business.
Burton applauded
As lawmakers mull whether the mortgage interest deduction should be on the chopping block to rein in the growing federal deficit or change the federal tax code, U.S. Rep. Dan Burton should be commended.
Rusthoven wrong on pension claim
Peter Rusthoven’s [Aug. 22] column about raising the federal debt limit included a major error worthy of a retraction and an apology.
ETZKORN: ‘Tsunami’ of business sales coming soon
More than half of all businesses are owned by baby boomers and, while they may be working past age 65, eventually they will retire.
KENNEDY: Here’s a revenue enhancement for you
We should decriminalize, tax and regulate marijuana, and focus on treatment and prevention for those with genuine addictions.
MORRIS: Don’t forget that work needs to be fun
Let’s try and leave some mad money in the budget.
EDITORIAL: Invest in the underemployed
Armies of people find themselves lingering on the sidelines.
SKARBECK: Global investors should heed exchange rate trends
Exchange rates are determined, at least in theory, by purchasing power parity.
HICKS: High taxes are myth, not America’s problem
In too many places, government does things the private sector does better and cheaper.
WHITE: Republicans should ease restrictions on busy voters
I believe flexible and convenient voting options encourage voter participation, which stimulates turnout.
DIETRICK: Satellite voting isn’t better, and it’s too expensive
Satellite voting, a type of “convenience voting,” does not enhance citizen participation and might actually hurt voter turnout.
KRUGMAN: The specious myth of Perry’s Texas miracle
What Texas shows is that a state offering cheap labor and, less important, weak regulation can attract jobs from other states.
MORELAND: Congress let us down across the board
We are witnessing antics from neophyte legislators who prefer symbolism over responsible governance.
SWAYZE: Fix the chaos Murphy Brown unleashed
It is time we start to look at these issues as a whole: Broken families are costing us dearly in both dollars and struggling lives.
VANE: Don’t miss out on the calling of politics
It is easy to focus on the scandals and the politicians who fall gracelessly from grace. But for every one of them, the ones we’d like to forget, there is a Richard Lugar or an Andy Jacobs whose service to this country we should never forget.
LADWIG: Bring the spirit of Lincoln back to Indiana
Is that our position? Stand there confident that the inscrutable workings of a free market will restore our failing towns? Pretty much.