WAGNER: Lugar’s ‘broken brand’ began with negative ad
Think Crystal Pepsi and New Coke. Or in the case of exploding products, consider the Ford Pinto.
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MAHERN: Pining for an era when senators were senatorial
Lugar decided sound public policy trumped standing by and watching his colleagues pass a bad bill.
FERGUSON: Hoosiers won’t benefit from anti-Lugar fervor
Being a long-serving member of the Congress representing a state used to be a huge net plus.
RIVERA: Dreaming up charter school possibilities
Imagine high school graduates from the Eli Lilly or the Cook Pharma Charter School of Chemistry.
TAFT: Charters are stable arks amid flood of change
The relative autonomy of charter schools will allow them to focus on their internal success in spite of the chaos of system breakdown around them.
MUTZ: Ballard needs Unigov wisdom for education
For traditionalists, IPS faces a perfect storm. For a thoughtful mayor, it is a perfect opportunity.
BONIFIELD: An economic-development reality check
It was not until the city was asked to act that latent objections emerged.
STYRING: State’s voucher law on rock-solid legal ground
The primary effect of a voucher is not to benefit the religious school. It’s to educate the child.
MARCUS: Vouchers are fine, but about those details…
Without standards of performance, taxpayers sign blank checks while children are set up for future failures.
VANE: No reason for vouchers to divide reformers
Forgive me, but I am perplexed as to why this issue is so controversial.
Gun rights indeed at risk
Thomas M. Meredith [April 2 letter] wrote that Greg Morris’ [March 26 column] was “pure fear mongering, filled with innuendos and false statements.” Nothing could be further from the truth.
Column read like Fox audition
[Greg Morris’ March 26 column] reads more like an audition to be the next fear-mongering talking head on Fox News instead of the thoughtful commentary we have come to expect from the IBJ.
Don’t lose sight of the facts
Bruce Hetrick [March 26 column] included a paragraph which seemed to demonstrate what many professional journalists decry in the social media.
Prof showed compassion
In the April 2 [Forefront] Thomas Sowell attacks the credentials and worthiness of Professor Derrick Bell to serve as a professor at Harvard Law School.
QUINN: New energy code is already obsolete
Adopting the new code would result in even greater savings for Indiana home buyers.
KENNEDY: Republicans losing the 51 percent
In a recent New York Times column, Gail Collins observed “the thing that makes our current politics particularly awful isn’t procedural. It’s that the Republican Party has become over-the-top extreme.” She left out “mean-spirited and patriarchal.”
MORRIS: Creativity puts United Way over the top
So, what would make Community Health Network’s president and CEO, Bryan Mills, star in a video dressed as a caveman? It could only be United Way’s “Give Gleefully” YouTube video competition.
EDITORIAL: Not everyone is college material
No one benefits when unprepared or disinterested students are herded into colleges.
ALTOM: What matters most, privacy or convenience?
As our devices become more aware of our travels, our preferences, our contacts, our messages, our photographs and even our dexterity, the line between convenience and spying is crossed without us even being aware of it.
DINING: Cajun flair fires two downtown newcomers
Second in a month-long series of reviews of eateries in and around City Market. This week: Papa Roux and Miguel’s Southern Kitchen.