LETTER: Sustainability effort is incomplete
One area where Eskenazi Health lags behind its peers in Indianapolis is in the use of reusable isolation gowns.
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LETTER: Cautious Indiana misses opportunity
The excuses by Gov. Holcomb, Speaker Bosma and most of the Legislature to avoid what the vast majority of their voting constituents not only approve of, but have asked for—the legalization of marijuana—have become very old, trite, archaic and almost embarrassing at this point.
LETTER: Future rail will doom trail
In 2017, leaders from Fishers, Noblesville and Hamilton County, owners of the roughly 40-mile railroad running from downtown Indianapolis to Tipton, announced they were going to turn the railroad into a multi-use trail. Nearly 12,000 residents opposed the trail-only solution, suggesting a rail-with-trail instead. Those residents formed “Save the Nickel Plate,” met with local leaders […]
Letter: Todd Young defends American principles
As though the Green New Deal isn’t ridiculous enough, inserting socialist policies like Medicare for All and guaranteed income into the proposal is a transparent and appalling intent to destroy the foundation of America as envisioned by our Founding Fathers and embodied in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Letter: A welcome defense of Mike Pence
As a Taylor alumni and the author of The Faith of Mike Pence, I wrote Taylor’s president a letter and encouraged him to consider the vice president’s consistent 41-year walk with the Lord, his faithful, non-wavering biblical stances in politics, and the testimonies and stories of almost 60 people I interviewed for the book, and to dismiss the gossip, lies and slander that have been perpetrated by the enemy against our vice president.
Letter: Varvel should stick with cartoons
To criticize Taylor University students and alumni for opposing Mike Pence’s invitation as a commencement speaker, saying that he might expect this from students at a secular college but not from Taylor students, is the ultimate in gross absurdity.
Letter: Sen. Young on right side of tobacco fight
Studies show that 95% of tobacco users start before they are 21. By raising the minimum legal sales age for all tobacco products to 21 nationwide we will reduce tobacco use, nicotine addiction and tobacco-related disease and death.
Letter: Hoosier hospitals betray public trust
Gloria Sachdev’s Viewpoint [Hoosier hospitals owe us greater price transparency, April 26] accurately exposes the obscene extent to which many Indiana hospitals are overcharging the public.
Letter: Fox news tells truth
Fox is the only network that actually reports news. The rest are lock and step with the left.
Letter: Varvel cartoons are the best
The Indy Star made a bad mistake letting Gary Varvel go.
Letter: ‘Inclusive City’ full of great ideas
CEO Brian Payne, an extraordinary visionary, has more great ideas, creative- and coalition-building talent than any politician on the horizon.
Letter: Investor bullish on Midtown Carmel
What’s special about Carmel, and Midtown in particular, is that it illustrates the transformative power of cohesive mixed-use redevelopments in suburban settings.
Letter: Hygiene tax break is humorous at best
Why favor gender when today’s world demands “equality”? All genders and ages need items that are “simply necessary to personal hygiene.” Soap, deodorant, shampoo, water I would argue are necessary to personal hygiene.
Letter: Have compassion for former inmates
It is time to end the war on crime and drugs. As a first step, we need to change how we think of those coming home from prison and jail. Few of our citizens returning to the community from prison are immoral, malicious and unredeemable.
Letter: Initiatives take aim at opportunity gap
I offer my enthusiastic support of IBJ’s recent editorial [Community needs to act on income inequality problems, March 29], which addresses data released this month by the Brookings Institution about the gap between those who are thriving in central Indiana and those who aren’t. Like IBJ, the Marian University community—board, administration, faculty, staff and students—finds […]
Letter: Lifting up civic duty
Two columnists from two completely different geographic and political sections of the country, and both understand the importance of civic involvement and political duty, and not just for the biased and trend-following portion of our urban population.
Letter: No apologies from township schools
Prior to making broad generalizations around the need for “attention, engagement, and scrutiny,” it is important to ensure that all of the facts are in place.
Letter: Writer misunderstood Indiana Forest Alliance
Mr. Moistner calls the Indiana Forest Alliance a “conflict industry” that only exists to fight. Actually, the IFA and the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association began a dialogue in good faith; while we still disagree on some matters, we agree on others.
Letter: Unruly students lead to teacher turnover
Neglected kids become disruptors and dropouts once their hormones start running.
Letter: IBJ should use more diverse sources
The lack of an accurate representation of the black community in a recent story could project a false sense of unanimity on our concerns about IPS. But more significantly, it conceals the diversity of perspectives within the black community on the future of IPS.