BOEHM: Feeble home rule is a drag on progress
Action by the Legislature is often required to permit local initiatives to proceed.
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MCQUILLEN: Plan would trim bureaucracy for the benefit of students
As we work to rebuild our broken district, we must aim not for perfection, but for progress.
LEWIS: Bedrock principle of accountability would be undermined
Frustration should not drive change for its own sake when a competing bedrock principle is in jeopardy.
DOWD: The transformational wife behind Newt
The 45-year-old Callista has created an entirely new model for a spouse.
SOWELL: Progressives leave legacies of destruction
The problems they created so discredited Progressives that they started calling themselves “liberals.”
KRUGMAN: How the GOP became severely constricted
Something has clearly gone very wrong with modern U.S. conservatism.
STOSSEL: More government won’t make us happy
The right to pursue happiness has been perverted into a government-backed entitlement to happiness.
MYERS: A really big vehicle could save your life
Facts are facts and the laws of physics cannot be repealed.
LADWIG: The last ordinary American: a eulogy
If socialism wasn’t good, we argued lamely, then wealth at least was bad—or not as fair or as kind as government could make it.
FARGO: A good idea with a shot at becoming law
The only way to enforce the law if a public official ignores a public access counselor’s opinion in your favor is to sue.
STYRING: Raise retirement age, or face collapse
Those 76 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are flooding onto the rolls at a rate of 10,000 each day.
HOWEY: Middle class kicked by declining home values
Could there be new collusion in the appraisal network?
MUTZ: Health care budgets at risk of overload
Under these definitions, some of our most-honored citizens could be considered mentally ill.
MAHERN: Questionable ROI from the Super Bowl
Local money spent downtown is not new money. It is merely money not spent somewhere else in the local economy.
VANE: Carrying the mantle of reform onward
Some of the people who played a pivotal role in shaping this debate are also running for public office.
KRULL: Rubbing the abrasive edges off lawmakers
If lunch together is good, living together would be even better.
FERGUSON: Big issues playing out right here in Indiana
Maybe leaders of the Republican National Committee see Indiana as a model.
RIVERA: Optimism and caution over mass transit
It concerns me that we may be building outdated technology.