MAHERN: Public library board is a Byzantine mess
IPS and the ex-officio county commissioners cannot raise a dime for the library. Yet they appoint five of the seven members of the library board.
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MYERS: The life-saving benefits of working together
We often forget that as a society there are real advantages to working (and investing) together for a common purpose.
MUTZ: Hoping reform chic sinks into the culture
It was the biggest turnout for an education event I have ever seen in Indiana.
LAGWIG: Here’s a pol who hires honestly and pays taxes
The firefighter and police unions set up pickets outside his home. He was re-elected in no small part as a result of his training as a Marine artillery officer.
FARGO: There’s a place for secrecy in government
There are slippery slopes, camels’ noses under tents, etc., that we fear will become too common if we budge on our opposition to secrecy. But secretly (oops), we also know that government has to keep some things quiet to keep us safe.
RUSTHOVEN: Coats, Lugar steering clear of extremes
Some in the GOP—quite unlike President Reagan, whose mantle they claim—prefer striking poses to striking a deal to achieve the possible.
FERGUSON: States’-rights crowd hurts small people
The debate over Medicaid funding and Planned Parenthood is about the access of poor people to health care. And about the right of the state of Indiana to assert the power to say where poor people can receive such health care services.
BONIFIELD: Bad laws now costing taxpayers in court
The focus of this session should have been on improving the economy and creating jobs. Instead, money, time and energy were wasted on red herrings.
KRULL: An ode to journalists felled by tech, economy
For many of the journalists whose jobs have fled or who are just barely hanging on, it is as if they are pilgrims whose church has abandoned them.
SWAYZE: Indiana needs a stronger chief executive
People are looking for accountability from elected officials these days—not just in Indiana but across the country.
HOWEY: Bauer, other aged House Dems should go
Thus, out of this blood, sweat, angst and smoke, we learned that this past spring, Bauer actually contemplated a run … for governor!
MEREDITH: Diplomas don’t guarantee mastery of work or life skills
A diploma cannot guarantee commendable performance in college, respectable employment or even success in life.
HARRIS: We need a system to make high school diplomas count
Unfortunately, too many students who make it through high school aren’t well prepared for what comes next.
NOCERA: Don’t let banks win the debate over capital
A real capital cushion would have allowed the banks to absorb the losses instead of the taxpayers.
O’REILLY: PC or not, include me in the ‘Glee’ fan club
At this point in America, young people are being barraged with tattooed vulgarians who dominate the rock and reality-show worlds.
KRUGMAN: GOP willing to let debt calamity happen
Is a failure to raise the debt ceiling unthinkable? Not at all.
SOWELL: Today’s question: Is democracy viable?
Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric.
BROOKS: GOP is missing chance at political victory
If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment.
STOSSEL: The rising tide of independents in politics
Maybe the human spirit is so powerful it will overcome the stupidity of politics.
DOWD: Sing out, Hillary, about rights of Saudi women
It would have been thrilling if Hillary 2011 had simply channeled Hillary 1995, when, as first lady, she made her bodacious speech in Beijing, declaring that “women’s rights are human rights.”