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FEIGENBAUM: Fiscal issues to dominate waning days of the session
This year, with the right-to-work debate having sucked all the air out of the session—and largely all the fight out of House Democrats—before the Super Bowl, the final weeks of the session are less intriguing than usual.
Benner on target
It’s my guess [Benner’s Feb. 27 column ] could have been pages and pages in length with recitals of poor behavior on behalf of parents, administrators, students, players, coaches, officials, cheerleaders, mascots, trainers, gym managers, parking lot attendants, clean-up crews and many others.
RUSTHOVEN: A chilling threat to faith-based services
Everyone’s freedom is at risk when a president can order someone to do something “without charge.”
MAURER: Politics prevail over wisdom
There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory of creationism. Creationism seeks a supernatural explanation and must be taken on blind faith. It is not science.
EDITORIAL: Senate smoking ban bad for business
The statewide smoking ban approved by the Indiana Senate Feb. 29 was riddled with exemptions, seeming to prove what many people have already concluded: The majority of our lawmakers aren’t concerned with public health; they care far more about the right of business owners to operate without government intrusion.
MEREDITH: Plan violates democratic role of the public in education
Indiana policymakers should not disregard the democratic will of the public in an attempt to push the reform efforts statewide.
CHU: Strategies should be launched in schools across the state
The Mind Trust recognizes that true innovation takes place in school buildings and not state or district offices.
TORR: Right-to-work won’t cost a single legislator his or her job
Our own polling showed that even union members and self-identified Democrats supported right-to-work by slim margins.
DELANEY: Teachers, working class will reject austerity world view
Union leaders will organize their get-out-the-vote efforts at a far higher level than in the past.
DOWD: GOP is now the Ghastly Outdated Party
President Barack Obama has deranged conservatives just as W. deranged liberals.
FRIEDMAN: The U.S., an OPEC member? Potentially
The knee-jerk debate we’re again having over who is responsible for higher oil prices fundamentally misses huge changes.
STOSSEL: Politicians fiddle while fiscal crisis looms
We must cut. But I fear Americans aren’t up for that.
WINSTON: Mays personifies the best of black history
Mays’ efforts at community involvement saved The Indianapolis Recorder.
WOUDENBERG: Taking one’s chances with vaccinations
While certainly not fun, a case of the measles rarely causes death.
DAVIS: Governing from behind a computer screen
SEAS puts the analytical power of the U.S. military on our desktops.
SHELLA: Clearly, Dick Lugar is no Charlie White
There has been a lot of disinformation and misinformation in Indiana politics of late with regard to the residency issue.
EARLY: Vividly dreaming of a Daniels nomination
I saw senior citizens throw away their crutches and dance in the aisles.