SEAY: Dominion theology bounces off Hoosiers
Advocates of dominion theology find ranking Indiana Republicans to be lukewarm politically and religiously.
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KETZENBERGER: ‘Because we can’ is the wrong reason
Lawmakers are wasting their time if they spend a single minute on anything but bills meant to improve business conditions.
DAVIS: Crack down on employees who ruin IPS
Separate the teachers and administrators who aren’t serving our students. Fire them now.
WOUDENBERG: Put more effort into crime prevention
Instead of solely finding a way to build more cellblocks, the focus should be on how to not need more.
VAUGHN: Indictment reveals rotten culture at IURC
The Hardy/Duke scandal has left a dark stain of impropriety.
BOEHM: Nipping entry-level corruption in the bud
There is no serious vetting of candidates for lower office.
PORTER: Keep the office directly accountable to Hoosier voters
Without an election, what will make an appointed superintendent inclined to pay even the slightest attention to any school board member, teacher, parent or student when they offer suggestions to improve the quality of education?
BEHNING: An appointed superintendent would streamline education
The governor has control over the state board, but the superintendent controls the agenda.
BROOKS: A new kind of revolution for a new era
We are present again at one of those great unravelings.
SOWELL: Congressional gridlock may rescue Obama
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
TAFT: Jobs will bring back worn neighborhoods
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
FARGO: Keep some cheer for better public access
The right of access to information is like a muscle—if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies.
MAHERN: Politics, art collide on the Cultural Trail
If an artist says that it is art, who are we to gainsay it?
MYERS: Lauding Wishard’s many unsung miracles
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.
MUTZ: Faster—faster—on education attainment
We are behind the curve and becoming less competitive all the time.
LADWIG: Indiana run ‘like a business’? Not quite
Every time this man applied that advice to his particular corner of government, “All hell broke loose.”
HOWEY: Mayoral glass ceiling persists in big cities
A male candidate is more likely to get away with the bare-knuckled political brawls than a young mother.
SWAYZE: Conservative resolutions for the New Year
No one should have to join a union if they don’t wish to and unions should respect that.
STYRING: Right-to-work is rooted in basic fairness
Don’t be surprised if our Statehouse is routinely on the nightly news.
BONIFIELD: An easy way to help college students
This year represents the best chance that it will, and the current economic climate remains the best argument that it should.