SOUDER: Get real about the immigration debate
The only commonly accepted facts about the immigration debate in Washington and at every other political level in America are these:
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SADLER: Why Ballard so infuriates Democrats
What is it about our Republican political stars here in Indiana that they are constantly underestimated and under-rated? The reason, of course, is politics.
GARRISON: The makers are getting tired of the takers
They will call it Northern Colorado if they can get the job done. Ten counties in the rich area north of Denver produce almost all the agriculture and most of the gas and oil that comes from the Mountain State. Its residents pay well over half the taxes but garner a fraction of the representation in the Democratic-controlled Legislature.
KETZENBERGER: We’re more resourceful than we realize
A realization struck recently as I was sitting in the shade of an umbrella stuck into the white sand that rims Thunder Bay in northeast Michigan, a copy of “The Last Policeman” across my lap.
MADISON: Leaders, pundits and reading books
Which of our leaders ever talks with us about a good book she or he has recently read?
TAFT: Redouble fight against urban poverty
Brookings Institute researchers recently published a book called “Confronting Suburban Poverty in America” that profiles how quickly poverty is migrating from many urban centers to their surrounding suburbs. Metro-area poverty has grown fastest in the suburbs over the past 30 years—experiencing a 64-percent increase versus 29-percent growth in urban centers.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: The insidiousness of income segregation
As a child, racial segregation was a fact of my life, whether by law or by custom. In the South, barriers between whites and blacks were rigidly codified by statute before the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s.
BOEHM: More to do to continue Indy’s ascent
Those of us who have seen the progress Indianapolis has made over the last several decades are justifiably proud of what has been accomplished. At the same time, most thoughtful observers agree on the need to address a range of problems—notably crime, fiscal pressures, education, transportation and neighborhood development.
SHELLA: Bennett’s emotions got the best of him
It was a warm, sunny Monday in November when John McCain came to the Indianapolis airport seeking to pull out an Indiana win in the 2008 race for presidency. It was the day before Election Day. Confident Hoosier Republicans were thrilled about the first real campaign rally in this state by that year’s GOP nominee.
ODLE: Pull a chair up to the Big Table, leaders
I generally stay away from education issues in my column, but recent thoughts compel me to divert from that practice.
DAVIS: Welcome to Indianapolis, Mr. Ferebee
We welcome a new leader to town to take one of our most important jobs—superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools.
LEIGHTY: Same-sex marriage ban hurts business
There has been significant discussion this summer about gay rights and marriage equality. Specifically in Indiana, House Joint Resolution 6, the amendment that would permanently alter Indiana’s Constitution to define marriage, has produced strong emotions on both sides.
MASSON: Past was prelude in Zinn controversy
Former Gov. Daniels seems to have a good grasp of Orwell’s notion that who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past.
LANOSGA: In government, clarity trumps efficiency
Here’s something to ponder in the wake of the big stories that keep trickling out from the emails released by state Superintendent of Public Education Glenda Ritz: What if the emails in question had been from her own tenure in that office? Or, what if a reporter had asked Tony Bennett for the same emails while he was still in office (or asked for the emails from then-Gov. Mitch Daniels)?
BOHANON: I wish I’d said that, but not in an email
When I read what then-Gov. Mitch Daniels said in an email to then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett about Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s work, my immediate reaction was, “My thoughts exactly!” I take great exception to Zinn’s characterization of American history.
HALE: Raising expectations would help Hoosiers thrive
It’s time to reboot the American Dream for Indiana by doing three things:
BUCK: Educate Hoosiers about fundamentals of economics
The answer is as old as the Bible: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he gets old, he will not depart from it.” Likewise, we are all familiar with the idea that we will reap what we sow, and this is true in our educational system.
VANE: Rubio’s hardscrabble life story would resonate well
Let’s assume for now, with appropriate disappointment, that there are no Hoosiers on the ballot.
PARKER: Hoosiers would quickly warm again to Hillary
If you’re a Democrat looking ahead to 2016, there’s only one name anyone wants to talk about: Hillary Clinton.
KRUGMAN: Sprawl strands those least able to travel
Detroit is a symbol of the old economy’s decline. The metropolitan area lost population between 2000 and 2010, the worst performance among major cities. Atlanta, by contrast, epitomizes the rise of the Sun Belt; it gained more than 1 million people.