HICKS: Education reform deserves bipartisan support
The goal of the legislation is to give public schools more incentives to improve.
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What about worker safety?
Am I correct in reading this that the Republicans are the ones voting against a real smoking ban? This is a very hot button item for me.
Smoking laws are slippery slope
I finally have reached my breaking point and felt compelled to write a letter in response to last week’s editorial.
BENNER: March Madness 2011 comes with some sadness
Recent weeks saw the passing of a handful of the Hoosier sport’s key figures, among them former Shortridge High School and Butler University basketball coach George Theofanis.
STYLE: A pair of local designers rack up retail space
While most local designers have thus far forgone the operating cost of a brick-and-mortar boutique, these opt for a tangible location
WILLIAMS: What is the IU name worth to us?
Who has the right to give away a state asset, as the IU name is, for what reasons and under what terms?
MARCUS: Opposing ideas need not demand respect
Failure to cooperate with an unethical power is a commendable ethical stand.
LOU’S VIEWS: Indy Opera’s ‘Carmen’ shows upside of downsizing
When word went out that one of the three Indianapolis Opera presentations this season would be a production of “Carmen,” sans chorus, sans full orchestra, sans biggie-size sets, and sans Clowes Hall stage, it was perfectly understandable that some patrons may have lowered their expectations.
FEIGENBAUM: Thoughts turn to truncated state budget process
As the legislative standoff continued, those who were concerned about policy turned their attention to the budget process.
MAURER: The Indiana we’ve always wanted
My fellow Tea Party Republicans, I have an idea. Let’s enact legislation requiring immigrants and homosexuals to wear purple hats. What difference does it make if we precipitate an economic disaster?
DINING: Seasons eatings at new restaurant
Third in a month-long series of numeric restaurant reviews. This week: Seasons 52.
EDITORIAL: Democrats test public patience
The stalemate that sent Democrats across state lines more than four weeks ago started as a principled stand against a Republican overreach. But it’s the Democrats who will be remembered for overreaching.
DINING: Salivating over Salvadoran cuisine on the westside
Second in a month-long series of numeric restaurant reviews. This week: 3 in 1 Restaurant on the west side.
LOU’S VIEWS: Youth appeal at the Phoenix and Butler U. theaters
Is theater dead? Three different productions from three different companies over the past few weeks point to some ways to counter—or at least hold off—the decline.
HETRICK: Singing the oft-unpopular praises of minority rule
When it comes to individual liberties, we’re among the most fortunate citizens on Earth that our government guarantees that the majority will not always prevail.
BENNER: Who might be this year’s Butler? Maybe Butler
A year ago this week, the Butler men’s basketball team was preparing to play the University of Texas-El Paso in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Who knew what was about to unfold?
ALTOM: Supermarkets simplify life for grocers, not customers
I have a fetish for efficiency. It pains me to watch people doing things two, three or more times when they should be doing it only once.
FEIGENBAUM: Will Democrats hold out until some warm April day?
Indiana House Democrats largely remain bunkered en masse in Urbana, Ill., save occasional individual appearances back at town hall events in their respective districts.
State should go smoke-free
Less than a month ago, it seemed almost certain that Indiana would join the ranks of two dozen other states and the District of Columbia—including our neighbors Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin—in enacting a statewide, comprehensive smoke-free-air law.
Indiana must limit immigration
It always amazes me that the obvious results of exporting jobs, importing workers and engaging in other forms of labor and environmental arbitrage are a mystery to newspaper editorialists and many of our so-called public leaders.