NOCERA: The miraculous Glass-Steagall banking law
It was amazingly radical, not just for its time, but for any time; it didn’t so much reform banking as upend it.
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.
This certainly isn’t about health care. Approximately 97 percent of abortions are done on healthy women with healthy babies.
Both sides, of course, claim the public supports their position.
Much more worrying to me is the fact that many of the poorest women (and men) in the state will be denied basic health services at least temporarily.
When I knew I was going to the exhibit opening, I was pleased because I’d heard so much about it, but I wasn’t expecting to emerge enthusiastically recommending it to just about everyone I talk to. Yet, that’s what happened.
The idea of Angie’s List someday pulling up stakes just east of downtown and moving its 650 employees to Fishers, for example, is discouraging for anyone who recognizes the importance of a healthy city core, but the possibility should come as no surprise.
I support and applaud Mayor Greg Ballard’s actions regarding the city’s incorporation of failing schools.
After we lost the Lazarus and Ayres stores in the area, I felt an answer might be to get Dillard’s.