SLAUGHTER: The prudently fast are winning the race
As we wrap up the final quarter of 2011, it’s clear the struggling economy is not a deterrent to many entrepreneurs.
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RUSTHOVEN: Lugar’s wisdom on display against Obama
Last month, the Obama administration decided to delay decision on TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline for at least a year, pushing it past November 2012. Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar is leading the fight to secure prompt approval.
EDITORIAL: Mayoral control is best for IPS
The Mind Trust’s provocative new report on the future of Indianapolis Public Schools is sure to lead to a vigorous debate over how the district should operate, including whom the public should hold accountable for its performance—the publicly elected board that controls it now or the mayor of Indianapolis.
KIM: Here’s timeless advice that will serve you well
Every once in a while I come across timeless advice like Davis Advisors’ “The Wisdom of Great Investors: Insights from Some of History’s Greatest Investment Minds.”
HICKS: An open letter to an elf from an economist
Last year, you brought me coal; this year, could you fill my pickup truck with gasoline instead?
PORTER: Keep the office directly accountable to Hoosier voters
Without an election, what will make an appointed superintendent inclined to pay even the slightest attention to any school board member, teacher, parent or student when they offer suggestions to improve the quality of education?
BEHNING: An appointed superintendent would streamline education
The governor has control over the state board, but the superintendent controls the agenda.
BROOKS: A new kind of revolution for a new era
We are present again at one of those great unravelings.
SOWELL: Congressional gridlock may rescue Obama
The media and the intelligentsia seem obsessed with the idea that government intervention is necessary to get the economy out of the doldrums.
TAFT: Jobs will bring back worn neighborhoods
When these factories left these neighborhoods it curtailed their vitality.
FARGO: Keep some cheer for better public access
The right of access to information is like a muscle—if you don’t exercise it, it atrophies.
MAHERN: Politics, art collide on the Cultural Trail
If an artist says that it is art, who are we to gainsay it?
MYERS: Lauding Wishard’s many unsung miracles
Most of our failures as a society end up in the emergency room, and in central Indiana that often means Wishard.
MUTZ: Faster—faster—on education attainment
We are behind the curve and becoming less competitive all the time.
LADWIG: Indiana run ‘like a business’? Not quite
Every time this man applied that advice to his particular corner of government, “All hell broke loose.”
HOWEY: Mayoral glass ceiling persists in big cities
A male candidate is more likely to get away with the bare-knuckled political brawls than a young mother.
SWAYZE: Conservative resolutions for the New Year
No one should have to join a union if they don’t wish to and unions should respect that.
STYRING: Right-to-work is rooted in basic fairness
Don’t be surprised if our Statehouse is routinely on the nightly news.
BONIFIELD: An easy way to help college students
This year represents the best chance that it will, and the current economic climate remains the best argument that it should.
FERGUSON: Even Louisiana has a limited smoking ban
Most observers will agree that Louisiana isn’t exactly famous for leading the way in progressive public policy