BONIFIELD: Ballard and Kennedy’s striking contrasts
A few months out from Election Day, voters have what amounts to their first chance to reflect upon Ballard’s accomplishments and credentials. They will find each wanting.
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WAGNER: Move ahead on a new public safety facility
If you’ve ever dealt with the local courts, you know that nothing is particularly easy to find or logically laid out.
MUTZ: Burton should go out while he’s on top
This is the ideal time to step down. He can become a senior statesman, enjoy an exceptional retirement package, and devote his time to other kinds of public service.
KRULL: Republicans no longer the tough-parent party
The reality is that we now have two political parties determined to go to Disneyland for the weekend. They just want to take different groups and pay for the trip with different kinds of credit cards.
TAFT: Why mass transit should be a GOP issue
History actually shows that Republicans have been the authors of the largest publicly funded transportation projects in U.S. history because they believed infrastructure investment was an important way government could be a catalyst for economic development.
ROOB: Illinois businesses come for sanity, not incentives
Our recent billboard campaign—Illinnoyed—in and near Chicago was a little tongue-in-cheek, but it got our point across.
QUINN: Picking off neighboring business is shortsighted strategy
Businesses are choosing Illinois for reasons that go far beyond our strategic incentive packages, which are just one tool in our arsenal.
MEREDITH: Parents are just one piece of intricate education puzzle
Policymakers, schools and educators must be realistic in their expectations for parents with the challenges families face.
HARRIS: Getting parents involved works better than punishment
The notion that kids from challenging backgrounds are destined to fail could not be more wrong.
NOCERA: The Tea Party’s war on the American people
The debt-ceiling debate reflects a harsher, less empathetic America.
BRUNI: Please, let’s stop talking about Bachmann
She’s a bonanza for the news media, which these days have vast acres of not only cable TV but also cyberspace to fill.
KRISTOF: Evangelicals need more leaders like Stott
The Rev. John Stott didn’t preach fire and brimstone on a Christian television network.
STOSSEL: David Mamet’s conversion to conservatism
Was he a brain-dead liberal? The newspaper, not Mamet, put that headline on his article.
SOWELL: Who is poor? It depends on who’s asking
Why should the average taxpayer be subsidizing people who have much more wealth than they do?
DOUTHAT: Obama is diminishing his own presidency
The administration’s maneuvering keeps working out as planned, but Obama’s position keeps eroding.
EARLY: Don’t underestimate our National Guard
The Indiana Guard Ranger Company served intact in the Vietnam War and earned more medals in 1969 than any U.S. Army company in a one-year period.
SHELLA: Rename clunky IUPUI for Doc Bowen
You could come up with a clumsier name for a college than Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, but it would be tough.
KINGSOLVER: Ballard is a mayor for the next generation
As a young person jaded by countless politicians’ broken promises to “ensure a better future for our children and grandchildren,” it is refreshing to see a political leader actually enact policies and programs that deliver on those promises.
CAMPBELL: What to do with Lafayette Square Mall
Safe, traditional options won’t work here; we have to get aggressive.
WOUDENBERG: Troubling reflections from the White case
For the voter, Republican or otherwise, it suggests an irresolute moral character that makes at least this conservative think twice about why she’s involved in a party that apparently can’t be bothered to look after its own.