DINING: Festiva offers flavor fest
The latest restaurant from Peter George and Thomas Main offers a casual-but-creative take on Mexican food.
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LOPRESTI: A month-by-month look at the 2017 sports calendar
No shortage of mysteries to solve as local favorite teams prepare to compete.
LOU’S VIEWS: Underground Railroad station gets $3.8 million upgrade
The newly renamed Levi and Catherine Coffin State Historic Site now offers more context.
KIM: Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses in 2017
The only thing worse than judging a book by its cover is making financial decisions based on what you assume the book might tell you.
BOHANON & STYRING: Advice for Trump: Drop trade-deficit obsession
Get the economy humming and all else will be forgiven. Don’t try putting a square peg in a round hole, thereby igniting a trade war.
FEIGENBAUM: The ‘mix for the fix’ and other legislative predictions
After (in)arguably the most tumultuous year in the 200-year history of the state of Indiana (and that Cubs championship), you can rest assured the 2017 legislative session promises none of that degree of drama.
HOOSIER BEACON: Calvin Fletcher, philanthropist and city’s first lawyer
Deeply religious, Fletcher was a staunch opponent of slavery and led an unostentatious life despite being one of the state’s richest men.
LETTER: Butler’s teacher school leads in ed reform
For 21 years, Butler’s College of Education has had a one-year student-teacher experience and were the first in the state to do so.
HUTSON: Imagining a Pence response
I think you will find it refreshing that the Trump administration plans to uphold all the laws of the country.
HUME: Indy 500 needs diversity in motors, chassis
Economic impact is generated by inviting more players to participate in the 500. Automotive industrial giants Ford Motor Co., Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Toyota have unmatched wealth waiting to be spent on race engine development for teams at the Speedway.
MARCUS: Governor: Don’t forget our smaller communities
Our state has good places the size of Evansville, South Bend and Muncie on down to Hartford City, Portland and Sullivan. These places could offer a quality of life deemed acceptable by our elite state economic developers if a program of incentives removed the blemishes caused by stagnation and decline.
MAURER: An ethical dilemma at the Daily Planet
A true tale reminds us that the customer should always be king.
LOPRESTI: Looking back on a sports year both bizarre and routine
Yes, the Chicago Cubs really did win the World Series.
DINING: The year in Indy restaurant newcomers
Remember when a new restaurant or two might have been all that separated one central Indiana dining year from another? Those days are gone.
LOU’S VIEWS: The best arts of 2016
Highlights include “Fences” at the IRT and “Beyond Spaceship Earth” at the Children’s Museum.
LETTER: Hudnut was about small moments, too
When I was 12 years old, I wrote Mayor Hudnut and asked for a job to buy a bike.
LETTER: Lawmakers must act to fund infrastructure
According to Conexus Indiana, the state of Indiana needs approximately $1.4 billion in additional state revenue per year for 20 years in order to address all of the infrastructure network improvements needed by 2035.
GUY: Sell all your stock because of the election?
Nothing distorts like an election result. Nothing. Not cataracts. Not broken lenses. Not even a bad photograph.
KENNEDY: Losing Bill Hudnut, a leader with vision
Unlike politicians who see the job of mayor as a low-level “stepping stone” to higher office, Hudnut reveled in being Indianapolis’ mayor. He had a passion for—and an intellectual engagement with—urban policy, and he understood the importance of a vibrant central core.
MORRIS: Nominate a health care hero
This is your chance to honor someone who saved your life or the life of a loved one.