Letters to the Editor

For the first time in my 30-plus years of subscribing to the paper, I felt your statement was politically driven and not reality driven.

Cecil Bohanon and Nick Curott’s column “Give thanks to Pilgrims for private-property rights” suggests “binary thinking”: private property equals good; working together and sharing equals bad.

Would you sell your mature trees for $10.16 per tree to someone coming in to log your property?

The improvements to our infrastructure, our water quality, access to the internet and many other aspects of life are impressive.

Social engagement (the kind that doesn’t require a camera or screen) is a fundamental aspect of our development as a species.

As the average working person realizes a lower standard of living due to the greatest rate of inflation in decades, the American economy will be on the edge of falling off the cliff. And printing trillions more dollars will only accelerate the fall.

If you don’t like government mandates, where is your editorial opposing those pesky speed limits that local, state and federal governments mandate for our safety and health? The examples of government mandates are legion.

Maintaining office space, which can be quite a large overhead expense, just isn’t always justified by the type of business or profit margin.

I have clear memories of sitting on the mini-hill in front of the Oxford Gables Apartments, watching the construction of 38th Street as it is now—or should I say, the destruction of Maple Road.

The facts are simple and irrefutable. Vaccinations are safe and effective. Almost all of the patients being treated for COVID-19 across Indiana hospitals are unvaccinated.

Forefront columnist Abdul-Hakim Shabazz’s viewpoints are common-sense driven, apolitical and honest.

Led by Dr. Frank Lloyd, Midwest National Bank focused on providing capital to individuals and minority-owned businesses.

Let’s call bad driving what it is: dumb driving.

While Sen. Donnelly is a member of my party, that is not a reason to carry on a needless taxpayer expense. Let the U.S. Embassy to Italy handle matters with the Vatican.

I’m glad the city is doing the work to be thoughtful about this downtown anchor.

Set between interstates 65 and 70 in the city’s highway “spaghetti bowl,” this diamond-shaped pocket park on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail was an oasis of rest and relaxation for travelers on the trail.

Bail funds have existed for decades as a community-based response to the growing use of pretrial detention, and recent analyses show that releasing more people pretrial does not lead to increases in crime.

We at Teachers’ Treasures happily find homes for all sorts of things folks don’t think have value.

We keep wanting to lower taxes but then never get done what is needed.