PARKER: Governors past provide critical lessons for 2012 election
You can’t successfully govern Indiana with a divide-and-conquer approach. We’re nice people, and we don’t like to be yelled at.
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CLARK: Bring on another governor with Daniels’ characteristics
The root of Mitch Daniels’ success can be boiled down to an adherence to three simple concepts: lower taxes, a smaller government and more personal freedom.
BOEHM: Electing judges a charade in Marion County
If you voted for any Marion County judges in the last several years, you wasted your time. And the county wasted whatever it costs to put the judicial candidates on the ballot.
CAMPBELL: Most of all, mass transit needs a hero
In the next 10 to 20 years, it will be impossible to tout our region as a world-class center of innovation and entrepreneurship without meaningfully addressing transit.
RENN: Indianapolis must reinvent itself … again
Despite outperforming not just the Midwest, but America as a whole, long-term challenges facing Marion County put the region at risk.
ALTOM: Does Bing have a chance of catching Google?
I can’t help it; every time I see the Microsoft search engine “Bing,” I hear Bing Crosby’s voice crooning in my head.
DINING: Jersey’s Cafe satisfies a Jersey boy
First in a month-long series of looks at restaurants not far from the new Palladium in Carmel.
LOU’S VIEWS: Book takes kaleidoscopic look at Butler hysteria
Thanks to Susan S. Neville’s new book, “Butler’s Big Dance,” I have a better idea of what the campus hysteria was like.
Most immigrants want to contribute
I wish to compliment Carol Faenzi on the excellent [Dec. 13] opinion article on immigration, for taking the time to express those sentiments.
Civility, anyone?
Respect for others and civil discourse has taken a back seat to name-calling.
MORRIS: New year should bring a new mind-set
The holiday down time has also enabled me to pull myself out of the day-to-day controlled chaos and actually take time to strategize, analyze and plan.
EDITORIAL: Consider tapping bank fund to ease budget woes
As reported in a front-page story in last week’s IBJ, the $250 million public deposit insurance fund has not been tapped in nearly 20 years.
GIGERICH: Here’s what we need from 2011 session
The 2011 session of the Indiana General Assembly will have a profound impact on the future of our state and our ability to retain our ranking as one of the top 10 states in which to do business.
MARCUS: State moves forward, with long way to go
Congratulations to Gov. Mitch Daniels and his administration on their development and implementation of the Indiana Transparency Portal. It’s a grand start to detailed information about state and local government activities.
FEIGENBAUM: Session to test lawmakers’ views on small government
Many new House and Senate members won election in part on platforms of reducing government regulation and minimizing government in the lives of Hoosiers.
HAUKE: Internet sites make splash without public markets
There is an interesting twist to all these newly discovered pots of Internet gold. They are not public, but almost anyone can buy stock in these companies in the private market if you hunt around enough.
HICKS: Why economic forecasting is inexact science
Forecasts are primarily used as a tool to begin, not end, conversations about business and government matters.
HETTRICK: An annual report on the mixed blessing of 2010
When I was 53, it was not a very good year. Then again…
EDITORIAL: Our wish list for next year
We don’t expect all our holiday wishes for the New Year to come true. We’re not that naïve. But in this season of hope, we’d like to offer these familiar refrains—and end with some proof that dreams do, sometimes, come true.
SKARBECK: Regulators and ‘experts’ failed to stop scammers
Most people find it incomprehensible that there are hundreds of con men around the country who wake up every morning with the objective of looting people who have placed their trust in them.