LOPRESTI: Once an NBA playoff lock, Pacers are now wait and see
Key games over the next two months will reveal a lot about team’s future.
Key games over the next two months will reveal a lot about team’s future.
Indiana lawmakers are debating ways to give money back to local governments—money that already belongs to cities, towns and counties but the state has been holding in reserves.
If a bank is willing to pay a math major $80,000 to help it make million-dollar-loan decisions, schools must compete with that reality—if they want teachers trained in math.
A gadget guy puts off this purchase until critical questions are answered.
Gov. Pence and his religious theories have lost the high road to civility and what is good for Indiana.
Ask yourself what RFRA did. If you think it was to allow unfair discrimination against gays, lesbians, trans-genders, etc., you are mistaken.
Higher property taxes might not be a good thing to longtime residents who live in communities because they are affordable.
The legislation is just one of a number of “solution in search of a problem” measures that reasonable folks can only hope die a merciful death during the legislative process.
Around the world, central bankers are using unconventional strategies in an attempt to stimulate their economies.
Nowhere is it written that it’s the Fed’s job to provide cheap money for the federal government to spend, but that’s precisely the hole the Fed has dug for itself.
SB 259 would allow employees of the General Assembly to carry a handgun within the Statehouse and surrounding grounds if they possess a valid Indiana license to carry. It’s an important safety measure for those who work for the General Assembly.
I deeply respect the right to gun ownership, but we rightly place rational limits on it. We don’t allow violent felons to purchase weapons, and any Joe off the street isn’t entitled to a bazooka. It’s my belief that those rational limits should extend to the Statehouse.
Today’s big puzzle is how so many otherwise rational people have become enamored of Donald Trump, projecting onto him virtues and principles that he clearly does not have, and ignoring gross defects that are all too blatant.
Before Palin, if a woman flamed out in a spectacular fashion, it was considered an X through the X chromosome. But when Palin turned out to be utterly unqualified and unintelligible, it did not reflect poorly on women as a whole—only on her and John McCain.
There are a tremendous number of echoes starting to be heard between the way Clinton ran against President Obama, and the way she is running against Bernie Sanders. If Clinton can’t find a positive, energetic message to project, and soon, she is going to be swept away by Sanders.
Today we live in a world of isolation and atomization, where people distrust their own institutions. In such circumstances many people respond to powerlessness with pointless acts of self-destruction. The American election has been perverted by these feelings of powerlessness.
Republican leadership has been itching to see Glenda Ritz out the door but struggled to recruit a candidate to lead the charge. Even though this is a no-brainer priority race, it took Indiana Republicans until the end of January to field a viable candidate to challenge her: Jennifer McCormick, the current superintendent of Yorktown Public Schools.
As Hoosiers consider which person to choose as our next president, I urge them to approach the task as if they were interviewing candidates for a job at the company they own. So far, those running for president are not making a good first impression.
Retaining veteran teachers maintains stability in the classroom, which leads to the creation of stable learning environments. By contrast, a University of Pennsylvania study found that Indiana spent $20 million to $40 million in 2008-2009 on teacher attrition and turnover costs.
Last month, state Sens. Jim Banks and Scott Schneider introduced Senate Bill 144, called the “Indiana Heartbeat Act.” The bill makes it a felony for physicians to perform an abortion if the fetus has a detectable heartbeat. This bill is bad by telling women they are not qualified to make their own choices.