EDITORIAL: Star newsroom layoffs shortsighted
There was no rejoicing when word of The Indianapolis Star’s most recent round of layoffs reached the IBJ newsroom, no celebratory toasts to the continued erosion of our once-mighty daily competitor.
There was no rejoicing when word of The Indianapolis Star’s most recent round of layoffs reached the IBJ newsroom, no celebratory toasts to the continued erosion of our once-mighty daily competitor.
I know this is a sports column. Allow me to veer somewhat off course.
In a meeting last week, I found myself reminiscing with my first client about a conversation we’d had with then-Indianapolis mayor Steve Goldsmith 17 years ago.
Last in a month-long series of reviews of “heated” eateries.
Greetings from California, where the question of the week was, “Is L.A. a theater town?
The prince made a point of hiring a woman, born in the holy city of Mecca, and training her to be the pilot of his private jet.
For the first time in a decade, it seems, the Republican Party doesn’t know where it stands on foreign policy.
It was amazingly radical, not just for its time, but for any time; it didn’t so much reform banking as upend it.
Someone needs to say to those who want Social Security and Medicare to continue on unchanged: “Don’t you understand? The money is not there any more.”
[Gov.] Fortuno’s predecessors had grown Puerto Rico’s government to the point that the state employed one out of every three workers. By the time he was elected, Puerto Rico was broke.
The Internet has changed our expectations about the availability of information. We now expect information to be at our fingertips when we want it.
Save for a bust in the lobby of the City-County Building, you would never know he had ever been around.
Research is paying off; prevention is working better than before; fear and discrimination have lessened.
At best, many Indiana chambers see themselves as middlemen smoothing the government licensing and regulatory processes.
With a presidential bid off the table, those moderate Republicans who’ve loyally worked for Daniels over the years must now choose between life beyond politics or holding their noses on some issues just to stay in the game.
“Don’t touch our Medicare” (and Social Security) will crush our kids and grandkids with horrendous taxes. To maintain otherwise is fantasy.
I ran into Rex Early last winter just as the buzz about Richard Mourdock’s challenge to U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar was reaching a crescendo. “Could Lugar get beat?” I asked him. Yes, was the answer from the former state Republican chairman. Early knows the ins and outs of Republican politics about as well as anyone. […]
From the very beginning, we knew there was no silver bullet to creating world-class schools.
Traditional adversarial relationships between school district and teachers’ union leadership are evolving toward more collaborative relationships.
With so much evidence showing we are losing control of our health, why can we not collectively grab hold of this issue? I believe one reason is that Indiana is not an easy place to be healthy.