KRISTOF: Harnessing the power of mockery for change
Sometimes the most powerful force for social change is a bunch of irreverent and wise-cracking students, working together.
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BLOW: The rich are sticking it to the poor again
This isn’t about balancing budgets or fiscal discipline or prosperity-for-posterity stewardship. This is open piracy for plutocrats.
DOUTHAT: Obama is laying a middle-class tax trap
Under the president’s plan, we soak the rich in the short term, and then just keep going deeper into the red.
BONIFIELD: Lee Hamilton, free of bumper stickers
The realization was startling. How could someone with such a high profile—a major political figure by any standard—be so nonchalant in weaving across the center line?
FARGO: In defense of controversial e-mail requests
Are they politically motivated? Probably. Do they have the potential to intimidate professors and institutions? Yes. Are they illegal or unethical? No.
LADWIG: The last thing newspapers need is a subsidy
You should know that publishers of the smaller community newspapers, specialty papers and media systems throughout the nation were outperforming the big shots until the recession, their closeness to their readerships saving them from the hubris of advocacy.
WAGNER: Pointers for those moments in the trenches
If you’re extremely lucky, your political adversary will have hired young, inexperienced staffers who telegraph their boss’s next moves on Twitter and Facebook.
MAHERN: Finger the elephant, mayoral candidates
Talking about education in a mayor’s race will only upset the adults who are the system’s primary beneficiaries—administrators and teachers.
KRULL: The weird election for Indianapolis mayor
Indianapolis now has a mayor who fades into the background. He is the mayor we still do not know.
HOWEY: Let’s count who might run for Congress
The most interesting will come in the new 6th congressional district that just about everyone expects to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Mike Pence for a 2012 gubernatorial run.
MYERS: A boardwalk view of medicinal marijuana
Carnival barkers hustle you into the “doctor’s office,” where virtually any diagnosis leads to a “prescription” for the FDA-unapproved “Sour Diesel.”
MUTZ: Indiana should pioneer ‘no adult left behind’
Indiana needs its own version of the G.I. Bill aimed at the undereducated. We should formulate a targeted program that is designed so that no adult is left behind.
SKARBECK: Inflation worries growing, and for good reasons
As much as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would like to think he can pull in the reins at the right moment, the beast of inflation is difficult to control.
HICKS: Economic activity stalls when taxes rise
We know from long experience that, if you raise taxes, you get less economic activity, even if higher tax rates make some people work harder.
EDITORIAL: Redistricting disappoints again
If anything is clear from the latest round of drawing new lines for legislative and congressional districts, it’s that the system is still broken.
FEIGENBAUM: New legislative maps matter over the long term
District lines largely will guide the partisan composition of the Indiana House of Representatives and the delegation we send to Congress for the next decade.
Indianapolis loses a quiet giant
Ken Thompson passed away on March 25. Ken was a quiet giant in the real estate development field in Indianapolis, Carmel and Fishers.
Let’s find ways to house the homeless
I read [Mickey Maurer’s] column in the April 4 issue. There is not one way to describe “the homeless.”
Church network helps homeless
I appreciated your comments in [the April 4] IBJ about the Horizon House and the general efforts of the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention to help the many experiencing homelessness in our community.
Bulldogs made entire city proud
Kudos to Bill Benner for his fine [April 4] column about a fine team, the Butler Bulldogs. Despite the outcome, our city has reason to be proud.