HETRICK: Much more than economic impact from a Final Four
This year’s events delivered a return on investment far more powerful than the estimated economic impact.
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HETRICK: Like natural disasters, aftershocks of grief linger
Five years ago this week, I took figurative bullets to the head and heart. My personal Richter scale was shaken more violently
than by any tremor ever measured on any anthill, or Port-au-Prince or Concepción.
HETRICK: Why it’s so hard to be a legislative voice of reason
After Sen. Evan Bayh’s bombshell announcement, I’m even less likely to ever run for office.
HETRICK: Learning to lead with Sister Souljah moments
Every once in a while, someone in power shows some chutzpah and surprises us.
HETRICK: As a new decade dawns, could we start again?
Ten years ago this week, a new century dawned. A lot has changed since.
HETRICK: Let’s have a little holiday faith … in one another
One might hope that we could accept a simple seasonal greeting for its thoughtful intent.
HETRICK: Let’s make Thanksgiving a year-round concept
Few of us fare well on our own accord. So when as the last time you surprised someone with gratitude?
HETRICK: Does your private club need a license to kill?
Is it freedom-enhancing to defend a veteran’s “right” to commit slow-motion suicide and homicide?
HETRICK: My Washington day in the war for health reform
I awoke long before the alarm sounded Tuesday. It’s not every day one testifies before Congress, so I was eager and
anxious.
HETRICK: Will healthy workplace hopes go up in smoke?
I can predict as well as any seer what witnesses will say as the City-County Council considers a workplace smoking ban.
HETRICK: No, Mabel, government is not a four-letter word
It’s easy to express populist outrage against Washington. But is the rage misplaced?
HETRICK: To teach your children well, put away the parachutes
Asking our kids to take responsibility sometimes has unexpected consequences.
HETRICK: Will we distinguish the faux news from the real?
There was a time, of course, when journalists had the time, space, resources and respect to sort things out for us.
HETRICK: A health insurance beneficiary pleads for reform
As a hearing-impaired, migraine-suffering, diabetic cancer survivor who’s also the father of a cancer survivor and the widower
of a cancer victim, I’ve experienced more than my fair share of American health care.
HETRICK: Visiting Alaska, and sticking final pin in the map
In my parent’s basement hangs a map of the United States stuck with multicolored push pins showing where they’ve lived
and visited. Until a few weeks ago, there were pins in every state but one.
HETRICK: It’s hip to be simple, so let’s take advantage
A gentleman from Fort Wayne died last month. The cancer caught up to him just a few days before his 80th birthday. Like many
of us native Hoosiers, this fellow was born of working folks. His dad was a traveling hardware salesman,
his mom a homemaker.
Birth, death and living in between
The problem is, we don’t get to choose our exits—the natural ones, at least—and we don’t get to choose the timing.
Whole-hog health scare: A deadly double standard
Because secondhand smoke is a longer-term health threat—rather than something quick like the flu or food poisoning—too
much of society, including the media, overlooks its danger with nary a second glance.
Redefining community in virtual and political reality
Last week, I made a presentation about social media to several hundred people at a Carmel Chamber of Commerce luncheon. We talked about Facebook and Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, LinkedIn, blogging and more. I didn’t answer the "how-to" question. I answered the "whether-to" question. With some important cautions, my answer was "yes."
Hopeful news about the nukes aimed at your head
Because President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev have now dared to raise that tired and trivial matter of nuclear disarmament, you must focus on mundane matters of mass destruction.