BONIFIELD: An economic-development reality check
It was not until the city was asked to act that latent objections emerged.
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STYRING: State’s voucher law on rock-solid legal ground
The primary effect of a voucher is not to benefit the religious school. It’s to educate the child.
MARCUS: Vouchers are fine, but about those details…
Without standards of performance, taxpayers sign blank checks while children are set up for future failures.
VANE: No reason for vouchers to divide reformers
Forgive me, but I am perplexed as to why this issue is so controversial.
MEREDITH: Respect, reverence has devolved to blame, distrust, sadness
The Indiana’s Department of Education appears to have an attitude that teaching is just a stopover on the way to something better.
HARRIS: Reforms elevate teaching profession to the status it deserves
Teaching should be our nation’s highest calling. Indiana’s recent education reforms take us a big step in that direction.
DOWD: Baptism of the dead won’t go away for Romney
Wiesel calls ‘the whole process very strange,’ and faults Romney, a Mormon stake president.
BROOKS: Will Obama go All In on big domestic issues?
It will be interesting, over the course of this campaign, to see what’s underneath the cageyness.
KRUGMAN: Quiet group is about lobbyists, guns and money
Now, ALEC isn’t single-handedly responsible for the corporatization of our political life.
FRIEDMAN: Big debate over future prosperity goes missing
What is American capitalism today, and what will enable it to thrive in the 21st century?
STOSSEL: Complex societies like ours need simple laws
Any attempt to manage a modern society is more like a bull in a darkened china shop than a finely tuned machine.
SOWELL: How racial quotas ruined a fine black lawyer
Bell even said that he took it as his mission to say things to annoy white people.
KETZENBERGER: Lessons learned from the Super Bowl stage
We’re blowing the socks off some guy from Philly before Madonna strikes her first pose.
EARLY: Reliably conservative Burton has served well
I have admired Burton because he has always done the little things.
KINGSOLVER: Lugar, Mourdock degrade the race, themselves
I do not feel so confident in casting my vote in the Republican senate primary.
KANE: Disappointment with both Lugar, Mourdock
When it comes to this race, I could not be more confused.
WOUDENBERG: No one is entitled to specialty license plates
As much we don’t like to admit it, our Legislature is allowed to pick sides.
VAUGHN: Lengthy laundry list awaits White’s successor
Lawson has more than just the image problem to work on.
BOEHM: Courts free to ‘call ’em like they see ’em’
Indiana’s appellate courts are the envy of most of our surrounding states.
DAVIS: Rallying more women to the political process
For all the uncertainty of politics we know one thing: When women vote, women win.