Christina Hale: What a weedy parking lot says about our economy
The evidence is clear that communities need entrepreneurs to step up when times get bad.
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Richard Feldman: We must root for courts to uphold Obamacare
The judge overstepped in ruling the entire ACA invalid.
Bill Oesterle: Let’s get audacious and shoot for the stars—literally
Building a space elevator is an enormous project, and Purdue is the place do it.
Glenda Ritz: Teacher pay hasn’t been priority for state since 2011
Despite the lack of language to address the real issues of teacher pay, the Legislature expects the local districts to pay teachers more.
Todd Huston: Lawmakers did their part to help schools boost pay
While the state is a partner in the funding of schools, decisions on teacher pay are made based upon communities’ needs.
Mitch Daniels: A big idea—An energy-water corridor on the border
A consortium of more than two dozen scientists and engineers proposes an “energy-water corridor” along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is that rarest of modern phenomena: an ecumenical concept with unifying potential, an idea that even sworn enemies can love.
Editorial: Congress should approve Sen. Todd Young’s bill to boost smoking age
The measure is especially important after the Indiana General Assembly’s failed to act on a similar proposal as well as a bill that would have significantly increased the cigarette tax. That’s despite strong support for both bills from a broad spectrum of business, religious, health and not-for-profit organizations.
GREG MORRIS: Gleaners leads fight against food insecurity
Your help is needed in the battle against hunger, a problem that observes no boundaries.
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.
Brian Tabor: Indiana’s hospitals can’t lower costs on their own
Ultimately, the entire health care system must move away from the disease-based paradigm that pays for each medical procedure and instead accelerate models that reward providers for improving outcomes and reducing costs.
Janet McCabe: There’s still time to mitigate dangers of climate change
A new survey by the Environmental Resilience Institute, part of the Grand Challenges program at Indiana University, shows Hoosiers are aware of climate change and care. Seventy-five percent support efforts to address its impact. And 65 percent are more concerned about climate change than they were five years ago.
Liz Malatestinic: Addressing mental health in the workplace is good for all
Most employers struggle with how to handle mental health problems in the workplace. Many simply avoid addressing the issue, considering it one of those personal matters in which they shouldn’t get involved. But it’s a business issue that impacts productivity, morale and sometimes even safety.
MARY BETH SCHNEIDER: The end of an era? It doesn’t have to be.
There’s no question we are in a political black hole. But if every politician praising the late Sens. Dick Lugar and Birch Bayh this week would pay more than lip service to their example, there would be light at the end of our tunnel.
MIKE LOPRESTI: Previewing the Colts, with a little help from The Beatles
What else for the team owned by the guy who just bought John Lennon’s piano?