HICKS: Ending subsidies good, but won’t solve debt
We currently have an unsustainable budget, and the inevitable increase in borrowing costs is simply a tax on political cowardice on the matter.
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Hospitals approach antitrust practices
Don Stumpp could not be more accurate in his [July 11 Focus column] when describing hospitals buying up medical practices.
Insurance article didn’t go far enough
As J.K. Wall points out in his article “Messy Math,” [July 11], in a few years employers will have the option to drop health insurance coverage, pay a penalty and encourage employees to buy insurance through government-regulated exchanges.
THOMAS: Get thoughts in writing to keep your group’s story straight
As you might guess, when I got the e-mailed responses, they didn’t support the contention that “everybody knows” the program’s objectives.
MARCUS: New Hoosier motto could become ‘Be less than you have been’
The U.S. Army says, “Be all that you can be.” Indiana is moving toward a different message.
MAURER: Let’s perpetuate this hoax while we can
An open letter to my friends in the Indiana Legislature:
EDITORIAL: Sports venues catch a break
It’s been a good month for the city’s old sports venues—some of which, in a relatively short time, went from being the darlings of the city’s amateur sports movement to easy targets for the wrecking ball.
LOU’S VIEWS: Spidey crashes, other Broadway shows soar
Thoughts on “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” “Catch Me If You Can,” Shakespeare in the Park, and more.
BENNER: City is on brink of wasting a unique sports asset
For the first time since 1980, we will host no Olympics-related qualifiers next year.
HETRICK: Harry Potter and the 13-year literary love affair
When “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” debuted in the United States in September 1998, we were there on Day One.
MUTZ: Hoping reform chic sinks into the culture
It was the biggest turnout for an education event I have ever seen in Indiana.
LAGWIG: Here’s a pol who hires honestly and pays taxes
The firefighter and police unions set up pickets outside his home. He was re-elected in no small part as a result of his training as a Marine artillery officer.
FARGO: There’s a place for secrecy in government
There are slippery slopes, camels’ noses under tents, etc., that we fear will become too common if we budge on our opposition to secrecy. But secretly (oops), we also know that government has to keep some things quiet to keep us safe.
RUSTHOVEN: Coats, Lugar steering clear of extremes
Some in the GOP—quite unlike President Reagan, whose mantle they claim—prefer striking poses to striking a deal to achieve the possible.
FERGUSON: States’-rights crowd hurts small people
The debate over Medicaid funding and Planned Parenthood is about the access of poor people to health care. And about the right of the state of Indiana to assert the power to say where poor people can receive such health care services.
BONIFIELD: Bad laws now costing taxpayers in court
The focus of this session should have been on improving the economy and creating jobs. Instead, money, time and energy were wasted on red herrings.
KRULL: An ode to journalists felled by tech, economy
For many of the journalists whose jobs have fled or who are just barely hanging on, it is as if they are pilgrims whose church has abandoned them.
SWAYZE: Indiana needs a stronger chief executive
People are looking for accountability from elected officials these days—not just in Indiana but across the country.
HOWEY: Bauer, other aged House Dems should go
Thus, out of this blood, sweat, angst and smoke, we learned that this past spring, Bauer actually contemplated a run … for governor!
ALTOM: Podcasts still have a place in cyberspace
A few years ago, podcasts were all the rage on the Web. It seemed like every site had a podcast, and often more than one. Podcasts threatened to replace e-mailed newsletters.