LOU’S VIEWS: Conner Prairie balloon ride marred by corporate logos
This week, balloons take visitors into Conner Prairie airspace, a wizard to and from Oz, and a grieving curmudgeon to animated
adventures.
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Levengood deserves our thanks
Barney Levengood has had a tough job and deserves our thanks.
SKARBECK: Chrysler deal succeeded thanks to fed intervention
In the midst of the U.S. government’s plan to fast-track Chrysler through bankruptcy, Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock waged
a lonely and unpopular battle.
BENNER: 965 days and counting until Super Bowl Sunday 2012
Indianapolis is more than up to the task of hosting the Super Bowl.
DINING: No waffling, Maxine’s delivers
It felt weird to pull into a gas station parking lot in search of lunch. But we forgot we were in a former auto repair shop
as soon as we walked into Maxine’s
Chicken & Waffles, attached to the Citgo station at Ohio and East streets.
FEIGENBAUM: Problems pile up as legislators get back to work
Special session will be longer than all had hoped before because of multiple unresolved issues
MARCUS: Urban entryways deserve attention
We need not have an arch to rival St. Louis, but more communities could copy work done on the north side of Bloomington and
the west side of Columbus to welcome visitors and bolster the pride of residents.
MARCUS: We all helped kill the auto industry
There are nearly no innocent parties to the conspiracy that brought the Big Three low, from greedy executives to combative
labor unions to elderly uninformed stockholders.
ALTOM: Want tech product advice? Here’s where to look
Grabbers do little research before buying gadgetry. Investigators like to know in advance what they’re getting. It’s to the
investigators I speak.
BENNER: Will winning be enough for the Indiana Fever?
The Indiana Fever still haven’t taken hold of this market, despite making the playoffs each of the last four years and twice
reaching the conference finals.
BYERS: Stimulus for health care benefits should be lifestyle changes
The cost and severity of our state of health is not going to change until we do. No amount of cost-shifting or federal assistance will stem this problem.
KATTERJOHN: Things at Speedway seemed to be going so well
The year started out great for the Hulman family but Tony George’s ouster leads multiple challenges the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway faces now.
HICKS: Management’s complicity with union doomed GM
General Motors Corp.’s bankruptcy marked the second-largest commercial failure in modern history. It is an opportunity for deep reflection.
HETRICK: Keep the civil in our disobedience and our discourse
If you believe passionately in some cause, if you’re certain grave injustice has occurred or will continue, if you know your
way is correct and all others are wrong, how far will you go to make your point? What will you sacrifice to get attention?
Will our kids know how to enjoy quiet?
The ability to enjoy silence, to be comfortable in it, to strip away all the noise and distractions is becoming somewhat of
an art form.
DINING: Binkley’s Kitchen & Bar reclaims former drug store site
Binkley’s Drug Store occupied the corner of Kessler and College from 1928 to the early
1970s. Its namesake now occupying the same spot, Binkley’s Kitchen & Bar, seems equally built
to last—a friendly neighborhood joint that glances back without wallowing in nostalgia and stays progressive without
being
trendy.
Let stadium users foot the bill
Let stadium users and sports teams pay for luxurious stadiums, not alcohol users.
HAUKE: Market looking better, but remain cautious
Don’t go all in in the market just yet, and stay in liquid investments.
EDITORIAL: Daniels budget should be OK’d
Overtures Gov. Mitch Daniels has extended to the General Assembly should be sufficient to end squabbling over the budget.
Legislators ought to take the offer, pass a budget, and leave the Statehouse before they throw any more sand in the gears.
FEIGENBAUM: Let the state budget bickering begin again
Lawmakers return to Indianapolis June 11 tanned, rested and presumably ready to agree upon a budget that, via gubernatorial assent or a veto override vote, will guide Indiana through fiscal 2010-2011.