SHABAZZ: My take on the flap over Jennifer Messer’s Fishers contract
I didn’t write this column in my downtown office, but in my back yard, where I can have a cigar and adult beverage.
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SHELLA: It’s time to make it easier to vote in Indiana
I don't care what party or candidate benefits.
DANIELS: Can we wake from this scary era of polarized politics?
People no longer have to hear the voices of those with whom they disagree—and they rarely force themselves to listen.
WOLLEY: Police-action shootings deserve better investigations
This flawed process is generally exacerbated by local media's rush to research and report criminal backgrounds demonizing the victims.
HALE: The disturbing decline in trust in our institutions
You have to wonder, when high schools students go to write term papers in five years, what will they consider to be a trustworthy news source?
LEPPERT: It’s no surprise that America’s image has suffered
Too many of the complex problems facing the planet today cannot be resolved without building coalitions.
IRELAND: Trump’s actions portend meaningful progress in North Korea
As Republican infighting continues to stall the president’s domestic agenda, Trump has shown laudable strength as commander-in-chief.
SHEPARD: Hoosiers recognize wisdom of gas-tax hike
It was a story of Indiana as a place where collective goodwill still plays a large role in civic life, to good result.
RITZ: Health care issues follow children into the classroom
We all know who pays for health care—the American people.
ROBERTSON: Pro-life doesn’t always mean what you think
It's about reducing the number of unintended pregnancies so that a woman never has to make that decision.
LEHMAN: Let’s balance individual rights and government oversight
I believe we must be diligent in finding ways for Hoosiers and local governments to coexist in this sharing economy.
TALLIAN: Neighbors need to have protections, too
The Legislature cannot simply decide to eliminate the ability of local zoning or other regulations regarding property use in their towns.
Trump’s budget repairs our broken culture
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen has just published a timely new book, “The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream.” Cowen’s message is that America is a nation that has lost its edge. Entrepreneurism and the willingness to take risks—key factors that once defined the American economy and made it the growth […]
Neither hot nor cold on climate change
Like a lot of conservatives who write about public policy, my views on climate change place me in the ranks of what the British writer Matt Ridley once dubbed the “lukewarmers.” Lukewarmers accept that the earth is warming and that our civilization’s ample CO2 emissions are a major cause. They doubt, however, that climate change […]
ROBERTSON: Stand for American values by confronting bigoted behavior
I know taking action can come with consequences to individuals, but inaction will come with profound consequences felt across our entire society.
State needs roundtable to focus on Indiana families
Far too many Indiana families today struggle for economic stability.
RITZ: Trump/DeVos budget out of touch with student needs
Perhaps they need to look at their definition of student achievement.
SHEPARD: Education and advancing Indiana’s economy
We are standing on a stronger platform for improvement than many places.
SIDDIQUI: Middle East policy: new hope or wishful thinking?
Although the president is having popularity problems in the United States, he has a very deep level of support among the people I met in Saudi Arabia.