MCQUILLEN: Republicans emphasize how decisions would affect the future
Often, there are process issues or other substantive problems that need to be addressed before more money is thrown down the proverbial tube.
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LEWIS: Democrats focus most on protecting, providing for people now
What truly distinguishes the parties is how we prioritize when interests conflict and how we assess the risk of inaction.
WAGNER: More of a woman’s touch needed in politics
It would be nice to see a little more thoughtfulness and a little less brute force.
SWAYZE: Conservatism has become mainstream
Voters want to turn back to this country’s founding principles of fiscal constraint and family values.
VANE: Brooks characterizes new Republican Party
She will be a brilliant ambassador for the type of conservatism that excludes no one.
HOWEY: Absolutely, Donnelly can beat Mourdock
Forget about your heart and look at the numbers.
BONIFIELD: Lugar astutely pegged Mourdock, too late
Lugar was ousted by a man whose most dangerous quality is his unabashed embrace of previously unthinkable positions.
FERGUSON: Mourdock win signals danger for deliberation
A slavish devotion to purity in ideology leads to an inability to get anything done.
RIVERA: Vaughn is right pick to help navigate the times
He knew what worried me and he showed how my vote helped solve that problem.
MAHERN: What Ballard means when he says ‘private’
The only real difference is that in private clubs smoking will be allowed and in public clubs smoking will not be allowed.
STYRING: Tripping over decrees on the way to recovery
Some businesses will just say, “We’re big enough. We don’t need that hassle.”
Canal will develop in time
Whoever put together the business model for the canal [April 30 IBJ] that would suggest an almost immediate positive cash flow for small businesses simply was uninformed or had no clue.
Single-class basketball produced true glory
Bill Benner’s [April 30] column on our multi-class basketball tournament versus returning to a single-class tournament was right on point.
Health care improves through competition
An article in the April 16 issue takes the position that increasing health care capacity increases health care costs.
KIM: Should investors ‘friend’ Facebook’s massive IPO?
At the top end of the predicted range of $28 to $35 per share, Facebook would raise up to $13.6 billion and sport a market value just shy of $100 billion.
DINING: (Syr)up-and-coming breakfast chain targets expansion
Second in a month-long series of Keystone Crossing/Clearwater Crossing-area restaurant reviews. This week: First Watch.
HICKS: European recession likely to affect U.S. economy, too
As disparate facts, the economic conditions in Europe and the United States are disconcerting. Taken together, they are frightening.
LOU’S VIEWS: Special Oed
Thoughts on ‘Oedipus Rex’ on the grounds of the IMA, Indianapolis Opera’s excellent ‘Faust,’ and more.
Harris column raises questions
The Mind Trust—an organization that proclaims to support entrepreneurial education initiatives, [and] unannounced and ignoring a well-established charter school evaluation process—feels compelled to play the roles of judge, jury and executioner.
Harris doesn’t get education
David Harris, my children attend The Project School in Indianapolis, and you recommended closing the school [April 7 Forefront] for poor test scores.