BEHNING: Pre-K pilot programs should be expanded responsibly
Right now, Indiana is not ready to provide universal, statewide pre-K.
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GOODIN: Early education too important to limit its reach
At a time when everything indicates more should be done to spread state-funded pre-K statewide, the tendency of many legislative leaders is to dawdle
DINING: Delicious elk burger lights up West Clay’s Lit Moose eatery
Making a restaurant succeed anywhere is a challenge. Trying to make it work in the Village of West Clay has proven to be an even greater one.
LOU’S VIEWS: Altar-ed states at wedding musical ‘It Shoulda Been You’
A few generations ago, Broadway audiences were more generous toward good-enough shows that weren’t spawned from movies and didn’t have marketable gimmicks.
LOPRESTI: If only … alternative sports facts we only wish were true
Imagine local defensive juggernauts, annual contenders and packed high school gyms.
FEIGENBAUM: Pay attention: Curtis Hill is in the Statehouse
Hill, who won more votes than any other candidate on the November ballot, is assuming a law-and-order stance on one of the most pervasive problems plaguing Hoosier communities from rich or poor, rural or urban, from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River: opioid abuse.
SKARBECK: Indiana’s pension system suffering from low returns
The glaring factor that needs attention at INPRS is investment performance—it, like most pension plans, has suffered from poor returns the past decade.
LETTER: Sports analogy fell flat
I found it in poor taste to use a basketball metaphor when describing something as unfortunate and sad as someone seeing his dead father, and his lifeless body laying on the floor of a local auto dealership.
BOHANON & STYRING: Trump has no easy way out of his Mexican standoff
How do we make Mexico pay for the wall? “Mexico” is a nation-state abstraction. Economists insist all costs are borne by people, not legal entities called countries or corporations.
LETTER: The inefficiency of tolls
The cost of collection should not outweigh in time or dollars the cost of the cause being funded.
LETTER: Stay out of vaccine issue
No law needed is needed here. Get out of private employer/employee relationships.
WESTERHAUS-RENFROW: How to deal with bullies at work
An Accountemps study found managers and executives at Fortune 1,000 firms spend 13 percent of their work time resolving uncivil behavior. That’s the equivalent of seven weeks a year down the proverbial drain.
KENNEDY: Trump: And so it begins
In his first week in the White House, Donald Trump exceeded my expectations—and not in a good way.
MORRIS: A presidential lesson in statesmanship
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site is a gem in our midst.
EDITORIAL: Dreaming big about soccer
The idea of becoming a major-league soccer city is great, although it’s way too early—and Ersal Ozdemir’s plan way too sketchy—to pass judgment yet on whether Mayor Joe Hogsett’s administration and CIB should support any city financial involvement in making it a reality.
FEIGENBAUM: Will Lake County finally get its due from lawmakers?
Residents of the key economic and industrial hub associate more with Chicago for news, economic welfare, entertainment and sports than with anywhere in Indiana and feel ignored by state government in Indianapolis.
LOPRESTI: Memories still flowing 5 years after Super Bowl XLVI
The echo of that week still carries, in different ways. A near-east-side legacy center and neighborhood revitalization. Georgia Street, a civic gathering spot that helped give the world the zip line. A track record of delivering, under high-stakes pressure, the city can claim when wooing other events.
LOU’S VIEWS: Vonnegut for beginners
Don’t feel left out of the Year of Vonnegut just because you haven’t read one of his books yet. Here’s where to start.
MAURER: Patch the holes in your philosophy
I still ask myself on occasion, “What would Glick do?”
LETTER: Important answers to key pre-K questions
We’re encouraged by the bipartisan support from Indiana lawmakers for expansion of quality pre-K.