HICKS: Educated athletes add value to the magic
The greater truth is that what we learn from athletics might be just as important as what we learn in the classroom.
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SKARBECK: How Grace stayed patient under pressure to sell
When we left, we were trying to imagine a few of the many obstacles Grace might have encountered as her initial investment grew into $7 million over 74 years.
HICKS: President chooses wisely with recent donation
Why not treat charitable deductions the same way we treat most retirement savingsâ??extend the deadline until April 15?
DINING: Scotty’s spin-off offers pier-less dining at Lakehouse
There’s no water in view, but Scotty’s Lakehouse is true to its subtitle: A Burger Joint.
LOU’S VIEWS: Bottoms Up Burlesque offers a strip down memory lane
Retro event proves more playful than provocative.
SURF THIS: Foursquare attempts to corner walk-in business market
Why would you want to check in at various locations on your smart phone?
BENNER: Hey, Hink? You’d be proud of this Butler team
Itâ??s all about the whole, not the parts. They cut and move, move, move on offense. They defend like their scholarships depend on it.
Hetrick misinterpreted First Amendment
I’m disappointed with Hetrick’s misguided interpretation of the First Amendment.
Constitution allows free exercise of religion
Bruce Hetrick is incorrect in applying Ken Falk’s
logic that you can’t vote to violate someone’s Constitutional rights. Quite the contrary, it happens all of the
time.
SLAUGHTER: Why you should kill the operations manual
You’ve
probably forgotten entirely about your company operations manual.
MARCUS: Small gains do not deserve a celebration
Both the Indiana and U.S. income growth rates
are extremely small and each rounds off to a measly 0.6 percent. To be somewhat healthier than your sickly neighbors does
not mean that you are well.
MAURER: GOP missing golden opportunity for Bayh replacement
Memo to the state Republican Party: Show me the candidate. We have a right to expect much from the party that gave us Sen.
Richard Lugar.
EDITORIAL: It takes money to raise graduation rates
After the 2008-2009 school year—the first of the Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce’s four-year Common Goal program, the overall
graduation rate among public schools in Marion County had jumped from 69 percent to almost 74 percent.
VIEWPOINT: Much has changed for Butler since 1980
Mediocrity in the athletic department was tolerated by the administration, winning wasn’t a priority and Tony Hinkle’s
five principles—humility, passion, unity, servanthood and thankfulness—had not been adopted as “The Butler
Way.”
HAUKE: As a rule, market doesn’t reflect today’s bad news
Until a bull market reaches its last stages (the final three to 12 months), there is a general lack of belief that the market
can go higher.
DAVIS: Finding (and keeping) clarity through cancer
Almost eight months ago, I used this space to share the new perspective on life I discovered as a side effect of my battle
with cancer. A lot has happened since then, and I’m still marveling at the difference—even as I struggle to hold
onto it.
HICKS: Health care battle won, but what about war?
The potential flaws in this bill are so enormous that to opponents of the bill it looks like planned failure, designed to usher in a national health service.
EDITORIAL: Sports payoff is on the way through ‘legacy project’
Sports may be overemphasized in our society, but there’s no doubt they’ve been good to Indianapolis.
LOU’S VIEWS: Historical Society casts the past to bring photos to life
This week, the “Indiana Experience” at the Indiana History Center (with a video
tour through Indiana's past), plus theatrical experiences at Humana Fest in Louisville.
DINING: Fishers diners need not fear Wolfie’s Den
Just walking into Wolfie’s Den made me want to take up hunting. Well, OK, maybe it just made me want to eat some meat.