MEREDITH: State, parental action plans would bring better results
I’d also suggest that a legislative action plan be created that would actually require policymakers to fully fund the standards that they put in place more than a decade ago.
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HARRIS: Trigger weakens suffocating power of special interests
A “parent trigger” would be one of the biggest game changers in public education history.
BOSMA: Full speed ahead on job creation despite the upcoming election
We will continue to work with the willing, and to work around those who are bent on preventing reform at any cost to Hoosiers.
BAUER: Democrats will both cooperate, hold Republicans to account
These are the kinds of errors that take place when one party runs the entire show and believes it can do no wrong.
COLLINS: Private planes are the best perk in politics
The free plane rides don’t seem to have shattered any Texas ethics laws, most of which are of the foam-rubber persuasion.
KRUGMAN: Why frack when the sun is rising on solar?
Will our political system delay the energy transformation now within reach?
DOUTHAT: We’ve achieved an arrogant meritocracy
The last 10 years, we’ve watched this same elite lead us off a cliff—mostly by being too smart for its own good.
KETZENBERGER: Great leadership from an unlikely place
Rol had done pretty well with his roofing business and it changed the way I thought of him.
CAMPBELL: Foolishly cutting investments in the future
It boggles my mind that we balk at investing heavily in things like early education and full-day kindergarten.
WINSTON: Reagan believed in taxing millionaires
When President Obama proposes the same type of legislation, his detractors claim that he is a socialist and a practitioner of class warfare.
VAUGHN: Shine more light on Duke/IURC secrets
Here’s hoping Thomas is just slow to bait his hook and has a plan to get the big fish into the boat.
WOUDENBERG: Protests undermine the American Dream
There is integrity and gratification in working hard and receiving my paycheck.
SOWELL: Irrationality all around with the mobs
Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them.
STOSSEL: Competition rescues kids from bad schools
Vouchers aren’t a perfect solution, but they are better than leaving every student a prisoner of government monopoly.
EARLY: This won’t be a quiet General Assembly
Some of the newer members see 2012 as a great opportunity to pass some of their favorite legislation.
SHELLA: Mourdock vs. Lugar isn’t about Mourdock
When the Tea Party Express sent representatives from Georgia and California to endorse Mourdock, they couldn’t answer a simple question about why they support the challenger.
BOEHM: It’s time to talk about expanding Unigov
Our government structure has not kept pace with our economic and cultural growth.
FRIEDMAN: A progressive in the age of austerity
Emanuel is trying to cut and invest everywhere.
SOWELL: Payback through reverse discrimination
Holder’s Department sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil—if the result is the election of black Democrats.