[In response to Bruce Hetrick’s June 14 column] Those that are calling for more government involvement in response
to the BP oil spill are not those who typically call for “less government.
As a practicing physician, I was disappointed by [Morton Marcus’] support of the recently passed health care legislation
[in his May 31 column].
We too often underestimate a young childâ??s ability to be engaged and inspired.
Second in our month-long series of reviews of “elemental” eateries.
There are plenty of parents who don’t have a high school diploma, or didn’t attend secondary education, for all kinds of reasons.
High school vocal competition soared in second year. Winner landed New York gig.
Time and again, communities have tried pedestrian plazas in downtown areas and have failed because, without cars, there are few people, and businesses failed.
Unless you have extraordinary assets, your communication skills will go a long way to determining your social and economic
standing.
Here’s the new plan: Purchase the stock at $7.25 to $7.50 a share, and hope to realize a 15-percent to 20-percent gain
in the short term.
We’re all quick to say we want lower taxes, but we’re slow to sacrifice services that affect us.
There is little I can add to the deserved tributes … except to place a couple of recent events in a Wooden-like perspective.
While it seems ominously similar to earlier efforts, there are components that might result in a better outcome.
for decades, politicians have regularly boosted public pension benefits to score election gains, while neglecting the long-term costs to municipal budgets. Now the bills are coming due.
One major part of the legislation will target derivatives. This is an arena where the financial services industry does itself
no good from a public relations sense.
Here are the facts. Summer doesn’t turn into winter without going through fall. The same is true with the transition between
bull and bear markets.
Suppose we lived in a perfectly flat world that is a vast, featureless plain of identical square counties.
Our waiter forgot to ring in our order. Mistakes happen, but how such problems are fixed says a lot about a restaurant’s culture.
I enjoyed your coverage [in the Mat 24 Banking and Finance Focus] of new Indiana legislation promoting traditional mortgages and increasing the protection afforded
to deposits of state and local funds.
Mickey Maurer’s article in the May 31 edition re: the need for support and mentoring of kids coming from disadvantaged
backgrounds hit the nail on the head.
On my most recent trip to China, it was not without some heaviness of heart that I again found myself comparing the newness
of the country’s infrastructure—and the teeming activity that seems to have enveloped this part of the world—with
much of what I see, or do not, around Indiana and the United States.
