LOPRESTI: The Bard foretells our games
The winter of our sports discontent has Shakespearean twists and turns.
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FEIGENBAUM: Regulatory agencies face scrutiny—whatever their tack
No one in the regulatory-discretion debate is pleased with extremes taken by their opposites, but a happy philosophical medium is elusive.
RICKER: How banks got their hands in your pocket
Buy $40 worth of gas and the bank will grab as much as $1.60 right off the top for a transaction that costs it just a few cents.
KIM: Are ‘tontines’ from 1653 a fix to retirement crisis?
For a possible solution, let’s turn to Italian banker Lorenzo de Tonti, who in the 1600s proposed a “tontine” to Louis XIV as a way for the French king to finance his wars.
LETTER: Trash burdens once-clean city
We live on 86th Street, about five blocks from Ditch Road where there are a multitude of places to buy a snack or a beverage.
LETTER: Confused by political column
A business owner should want to mentor women to be leaders, not just leaders who are Democrats.
SMITH: Revenue forecasts are remarkably accurate
Indiana is among 15 states that implement the best practices outlined by the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities for methodology and processes. Kentucky is the only nearby state that can make a similar claim. But it’s Indiana’s process for forecasting tax revenue that stands out.
HARRIS: Lawmakers must invest in IPS success
For years, state and community leaders have been calling for these types of reforms in IPS, and now that they’re in motion, such changes have put the district on a path toward dramatic improvement.
Trump is wimping out on trade
During the campaign, Donald Trump talked loudly and often about how he was going to renegotiate the United States’ “horrible trade deals,” bringing back millions of good jobs. So far, however, nothing has happened. So on Friday the White House scheduled a ceremony in which Trump would sign two new executive orders on trade. The […]
The king of crash and burn
In the movie “Iron Man 2” (yes, superhero films are my guilty pleasure, so just bear with me) the villain, a rogue Russian scientist, informs the hero, Iron Man, of his theory on how easily he could be brought down: “If you could make God bleed, people will cease to believe in Him. There will […]
The strange persistence of guilt
In 1981, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre opened his book “After Virtue” with a passage that is now famous. Imagine if we lost the theoretical coherence of science. Imagine if we still used scientific words like neutrino and atomic weight, but had no overall framework to explain how they fit together. That’s the state of our moral […]
SIDDIQUI: Holcomb will be ‘beacon of hope’ for diversity
Gov. Eric Holcomb hosted Muslim Hoosiers at the Muslim Alliance of Indiana-organized Muslim Day at the Statehouse a few weeks ago.
RITZ: Lawmakers have not made K-12 funding a priority
Our children deserve better. Our schools deserve better. Our teachers deserve better.
DANIELS: Another in the long list of reasons to fund pre-K
Early brain development is crucial: In just the first two years of a child’s life, neurons in the brain are frantically connecting to achieve the level of cognition necessary to live a successful life.
WOLLEY: Indy should affirm it’s a welcoming city for immigrants
The national discourse on immigration is affecting not only our immigrant neighbors but also U.S. citizens here.
SHEPARD: Hoosiers have a history of supporting roads
Building the state’s transportation network, of course, is hardly just a matter of loyalty to our slogan about being the “crossroads.” It’s a key to our own economic future and that of our children.
WAGNER: How about less mindless finger-pointing?
Let’s stop referring to stories of bipartisan collaboration as “refreshing” and “uplifting” and start expecting that kind of behavior as the norm.
SHABAZZ: Trump supporters hit hard by president’s cuts
Government spending, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t getting under control.
LEPPERT: The art of the gerrymandering re-deal
What is blocking progress for the Republican-controlled power structure in Washington right now is the presence and uncompromising approach of the Freedom Caucus.
IRELAND: Seeing the forest through the trees
Topics like that of Russian influence should be investigated, but clinging to the latest piece of circumstantial evidence or giving weight to anonymous sources and witty headlines does the nation a disservice. All the while, beltway media and Washington’s most powerful continue to largely ignore a culture of pervasive corruption.