I recently had the opportunity to walk through the exhibit space at the Fire Department Instructor’s Conference at the newly expanded Indiana Convention Center. It gave me a great firsthand look at why we invested $275 million expanding the convention center.
Budget cuts became more painful in the past several years as the national recession drew the fiscal noose tighter on Indiana government income.
We think city officials have made a compelling case for stepping up big to secure the future of one of Indianapolis’ largest employers.
Today, a political leader who proposes a higher appropriation to clean streets would be criticized. If he proposed going to the moon, he would be impeached.
Nothing stirs the imagination like a near-death experience.
The dictionary defines “neighborhood” as “a district where people live.” That certainly defines Indianapolis …
A walk through the streets there showed a pattern of crumbling infrastructure, missing chunks of sidewalks, and boarded-up homes. When I asked a city official for the number of abandoned houses in this neighborhood, he answered, “between 300 and 450."
Teachers simply cannot be made the scapegoats in the education reform debate. This merely distracts from the real issues at hand.
What is especially troubling about this tactic is that it denies us a chance to debate these critical issues. The policies being proposed in Indiana to evaluate and reward teachers would benefit from a robust debate.
This inequality, in which an enormous segment of the population struggles while the fortunate few ride the gravy train, is a world-class recipe for social unrest.
Roads to democracy are always bumpy—and, frankly, I feel pretty good about Egypt.
Hysteria over the government taking away our right to buy inefficient light bulbs has been sweeping through certain segments of the Republican Party.
Ryan leaped into the vacuum left by the president’s passivity.
When Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and Republican presidential aspirant, dared to urge his party to “mute” social issues, he was smacked.
As Upton Sinclair pointed out long ago, it’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Alas, somebody else may have to ensure the survival of the republic, since Daniels has spent the month backpedaling from the idea of a presidential run.
Add it all up, and Indianapolis appears to be demographically strong, with a strong appeal to Hoosier and ethnic newcomers, and an emergent black growth engine as well.
Not-for-profit employees, and the volunteers who join their mission, are the tip of Indiana’s public service arrow.
In any event, Mourdock will have an energized Tea Party in his corner as well as many of the party regulars. Mourdock is a great speaker and a tireless worker. Lugar does not want to debate him.
If the Supreme Court agrees with the 1984 opinion, the effect would presumably be to bar state employees from serving in the Legislature, a holding of no small consequence.
