URBAN DESIGN: Snow reveals the wasted space in our city streets
Some cities are taking the cue and making narrower roads permanent.
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LETTER: Bill protects high school reporters
High school and to a lesser degree collegiate journalists need legislation to protect a constitutional right because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1988 that a school principal could block publication of two articles in a student newspaper because he considered them inappropriate.
FAIMON & LIENHOOP: University + community = collaboration
The city of Columbus and Indiana University in Bloomington have partnered to implement a new vision for architectural education that will build upon the community’s rich history of modernism and leverage it as a living laboratory for design discovery and invention.
MYSOGLAND: Baby-boomer biz owners might start selling
The baby-boomer generation is healthier and more active than its predecessor generations. Today, the average life span has increased to 76.2 years for a male and 81.1 for a female. So, if one is healthy and mentally and physically capable at 65, why exit?
SKARBECK: Don’t let fear of missing out drive investment decisions
As stocks close in on completing the ninth year of the bull market, the recently enacted tax reform plan has acted as an accelerant. The reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent will add significantly to company profits. A key question is whether the lower tax rate will translate to […]
BOHANON & CUROTT: States need freedom to try to fix Medicaid
The best way to reform Medicaid is to decentralize the decision-making process to allow states to experiment with many options.
MAURER: Looking back at a year of commentary
Catching up with gerrymandering–and the importance of optimism in one’s eighth decade.
EDITORIAL: Time for Hogsett to step up
The city has a long list of pressing needs—including reducing crime, squelching poverty, educating our workforce, and attracting higher-income residents who will pay the taxes needed to fund all those efforts.
ANDERSON: The question should be, when will CBD be available?
Even though CBD is confused with THC, it does not produce psychoactive effects.
POWELL: CBD’s promise marred by unsubstantiated claims
CBD remains an illegal controlled substance under federal law. We know this isn’t popular, but it is true.
HALE: Protecting children is great goal, mighty challenge
Children will die. Children right here in Indiana
SIDDIQUI: DCS is troubled—and not for the reason you think
Politicizing this issue doesn’t help us develop a better solution.
RITZ: Cursive writing still matters for career success
Indiana’s business community and parents should demand that students receive cursive instruction.
DANIELS: CEOs must take lead in sex harassment policies
Having policies against harassment is useless without a commitment to enforcing those policies.
LEPPERT: Slowing the pace of marijuana’s legislative ‘creep’
The Indiana General Assembly wants to see things work, or not, in other states before it goes jumping into the deep end.
SHABAZZ: Good governing isn’t always about being bold
People are complaining there is no significant initiative that costs a lot of money, takes years to accomplish and grabs a lot of headlines.
SHEPARD: What it means to be a state that works
Sometimes you can learn a lot about a community by virtue of the leaders it chooses.
SHELLA: Oprah exposes Democrats’ struggle to ID candidates
The search is on for the next Barack Obama.
IRELAND: Our first virtual reality president is coming soon
This emerging technology is likely to redefine what it means to be a candidate.
PARR: Ruling shows checks and balances are out of whack
It may well be that the Supreme Court rights the … ship when this issue finally makes its way to the nation’s highest court.