If you were a Martian who just landed on Earth, you would be hard-pressed to tell from recent alarmist headlines that U.S. stocks had posted their best first half since 1999 and that most economic indicators were also improving.
Over the past 30 years, the number of people in the world living in “real poverty” has dropped from just under 2 billion to fewer than 1.1 billion. This is a drop from roughly 40 percent to 15 percent of the world’s population.
Just when you think nothing more can be said about Butler’s latest coaching departure …
Don’t let its name fool you: There’s more than treats here. Third in a month-long series of reviews of game-piece restaurants.
What perplexes me is, Andre Carson’s party had complete control of both houses of Congress when the initial student debt law was passed [July 8 Viewpoint].
Like Sen. Waltz, I will be serving on the legislative study committee dealing with the future of public transit for central Indiana. The committee has yet to meet and the senator had not shared his ideas with me, so I was interested in his thoughts [July 8]. He seems to have redefined our task.
Indiana’s school choice movement is experiencing a lot of growing pains these days, particularly with charter and private schools. Patience and tolerance is called for now.
When it comes to the culture-war politics of same-sex marriage, our governor and legislators would be well advised to listen to Indiana’s business and corporate leadership and forgo their pious pandering to the shrinking number of Hoosiers spooked by social change.
Sen. Dan Coats makes the best case yet for killing health care reform in its current form and taking another stab at it.
Simply setting a vision won’t work on crime.
Gospel musical “Smoke on the Mountain” once again a dinner-theater highlight.
The popular institutional investment strategy called “risk parity” has produced dreadful investment results this year.
The truth is you can really only do one thing at a time effectively, but sometimes multiple technologies can be focused on a single task.
So why not follow the sports franchise model to pull our schools out of their sorry state?
Unlike public safety and education, this is a city asset we have in abundance.
Ferebee must be bold, decisive in effort to reverse district’s decline.
Wouldn’t it be great if there were an online platform offering an easy and engaging way to sharpen skills and improve knowledge so your student can hit the ground running when school starts? Khan Academy fits the bill.
Same-sex marriage or household arrangements possess no economic consequences. However, the debate itself does have consequences because it crowds out honest deliberation on the real problems of collapsing families.
If Indiana puts a constitutional ban on gay marriage, it will be one of the only times the constitution is used to deny a right.
Second in a month-long series of reviews of game-piece restaurants.
