Curt Smith: A skeptical but hopeful view of the Red Line
When the system starts charging, and the weather turns cold, will folks walk blocks to the bus and give up the convenience of point-to-point driving?
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Curt Smith: How Hilton Head became such a magical place
Fraser’s first defining burst of brilliance was preserving the natural flora and fauna, including a now-330-year-old oak tree.
Curt Smith: Undermining the freedom of religion
Who defines what it means to be Catholic? The short answer is Catholics.
Curt Smith: Critics of social conservatives have warped standards
Which side is filled with petty, petulant politicians afraid of a sincere questions by a fellow citizens with a different worldview?
Curt Smith: Connecting churches with their communities
It will take time for us to demonstrate this initiative is not about politics but rather about relationships.
Curt Smith: Mayor Pete’s only stumble is his attacks on Pence
Mayor Pete (his preferred nickname) is off to a start that’s more than impressive; it is stellar.
Curt Smith: Judges already have better tool than hate crimes law
Actually, factually, Indiana has a model approach to fashioning justice to the crime, including hate, bias or discrimination.
Curt Smith: 10 ways to keep DCS from draining the state budget
Our problems are real, but our children are worth everything, including humble, fervent prayer.
Curt Smith: Sen. Young leads innovation in social services
The least fortunate among us will get better help and government will at a minimum pay for more effective services.
Curt Smith: Trump team mishandled flap, but decorum matters
People like Acosta risk causing less access for all journalists by being such bloviating bores.
Curt Smith: Kavanaugh vote was key to GOP’s keeping Senate
The American people were disgusted with what happened before the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by California Democrat Diane Feinstein.
Curt Smith: Why we should raise ‘fees’ on tobacco use
Although there is no guarantee the projected $350 million it generates will all end up covering health care expenditures, hopefully the Legislature will dedicate it to public health spending.
Curt Smith: Catholic Church must go from contrite to transparent
The Catholic Church has harbored a horde of pedophiles and given them sanctuary.
Curt Smith: Hoosier voters and Curtis Hill deserve due process
The issue is not the historic electoral margin. It is that he stands as a separately elected constitutional officeholder.
Curt Smith: Kennedy retirement best news in 35 years
Justice Kennedy has kept abortion-on-demand legal nationwide.
Curt Smith: Divorce rate drags down Hoosiers’ well-being
About 37,000 Hoosier babies are born each year with two strikes against them—no father in the home and an impoverished mother.
CURT SMITH: Indiana should stay on sports-gambling sidelines
Gambling is nothing more than a tax on people who don’t know math.
Curt Smith: Anti-abortion organizations must unite
The pro-life movement must take some risks to remain relevant as we await a more courageous court prepared to right this historic wrong.
Curt Smith: Senate races in suburban Indy will reveal if Trumpism is changing Indiana politics
We will know shortly after the polls close at 6 p.m. on May 8 the burden of incumbency and the primacy of policy with Indiana’s most conservative voters
SMITH: Quest for affluence has left us with poverty of the soul
Smart TVs everywhere, free WiFi and Obamacare do not assuage the poverty of the soul.