Robertson: Don’t leave foster youth behind in education
If you do not track results, there is no way to improve them-or to know if your efforts are effective.
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Daniels: Changing gymnastics to protect children
Athletes must have a safe reporting channel. And above all, they must be believed.
Wolley: Community must act to stop black-male homicides
That elected officials have only recently been able to scrounge up funds for a witness-protection program is welcomed but troubling.
Hale: Fighting automation fears with creativity
Where there is creative talent, a creative industry closely follows.
Leppert: Amazon and the difference between cool and uncool
My hometown and state have seemingly been working overtime to display how uncool we really are.
Shabazz: Why should we pay for their primaries?
What do you put in place of the current primary system? Easy, a county convention.
Ireland: The hollowness of ‘Stronger Together’
Our nation cannot afford to view political opposition as an absence of morality, a defect of the heart and soul of a man.
Schneider: No one knows what goes on behind closed doors
The system of keeping serious debate behind closed doors ‘whitewashes issues and denies the public the right to hear deliberations.’
Smith: How about some true accountability for spending?
If lawmakers invest wisely, we’d likely send them back. If they invest poorly, we’d look for a wiser financial steward.
ANDERSON: The question should be, when will CBD be available?
Even though CBD is confused with THC, it does not produce psychoactive effects.
POWELL: CBD’s promise marred by unsubstantiated claims
CBD remains an illegal controlled substance under federal law. We know this isn’t popular, but it is true.
HALE: Protecting children is great goal, mighty challenge
Children will die. Children right here in Indiana
SIDDIQUI: DCS is troubled—and not for the reason you think
Politicizing this issue doesn’t help us develop a better solution.
RITZ: Cursive writing still matters for career success
Indiana’s business community and parents should demand that students receive cursive instruction.
DANIELS: CEOs must take lead in sex harassment policies
Having policies against harassment is useless without a commitment to enforcing those policies.
LEPPERT: Slowing the pace of marijuana’s legislative ‘creep’
The Indiana General Assembly wants to see things work, or not, in other states before it goes jumping into the deep end.
SHABAZZ: Good governing isn’t always about being bold
People are complaining there is no significant initiative that costs a lot of money, takes years to accomplish and grabs a lot of headlines.
SHEPARD: What it means to be a state that works
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a community by virtue of the leaders it chooses.