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SKARBECK: Debt-ceiling issue has no easy solutions
The public must understand that the arguing in Washington over raising of the debt ceiling is just political posturing.
HICKS: Remembering those who fought, and why
Three times as many Hoosiers perished in the Civil War than the nation as a whole has lost to battle since Vietnam.
MAURER: Reflecting on what could have been for ‘Our Man Mitch’
The media gauntlet is one of the reasons we rarely have an opportunity to elect the most qualified of our public servants.
EDITORIAL: Nordstrom loss not death knell for downtown
The news that Nordstrom Inc. will close its Circle Centre mall store July 31 is proof that the suburbs still rule where retail is concerned, but it shouldn’t signal a repeat of the gradual decline downtown suffered when merchants began leaving the city’s core in the 1950s.
Swipe-fee reforms will ensure prosperity
Merchants in the Hoosier state have experienced an inordinately swift and severe rise in swipe fees, a charge that card-issuing banks levy against retailers every time a customer uses a debit card to make a purchase.
Families First helps beat addiction
In response to the prescription drug article [in the May 16 Focus section], with the increase in prescription-drug abuse throughout the state, there are two important things to understand:
Do these folks file tax returns?
Morton Marcus [in his May 23 column] may have omitted some things in analyzing the statement about “half the people” not paying taxes.
IPS is improving
There’s been much talk recently about the possibility of mayoral control of Indianapolis Public Schools. Missing in this debate are the voices of the students and families who actually live within and are served by the school district.
HENDERSON: On power players and the future of kids
We expect IPS to take its students to the very pillars of academic success after thoroughly hog-tying them. It’s difficult to find more breathless insanity than this.
MARCUS: Numbers say Indiana’s economy isn’t healthy
Usually, when an unemployed person gets a job, the number of people unemployed goes down and the number employed goes up. That’s a healthy economy.
ALTOM: Time digging into Excel ‘goodies’ will pay off
To me, when it comes to business power, it’s hard to find more of it in one relatively cheap package than Excel.
HICKS: Slow recovery doesn’t favor intervention
Most disagreement over economic policy is not based on theory; rather it is based on the discordant views about the ability of government to quickly and efficiently spend a stimulus or target a tax cut.
HETRICK: Please, dear sales clerk, play the age card for me
Under the new law, only those who “reasonably appear to be less than 40 years old” will be required to show ID when buying alcohol. But those may prove to be fighting words.
DINING: Sauce is boss at new north-sider Tiger Lily
With food more than a notch above your standard strip-center Asian eatery, Tiger Lily has quickly built a reputation for comfortable—if a bit loud—family dining.
LOU’S VIEWS: 2011 Field Guide to 500 Festival celebrity spotting
Even if most of them aren’t showing off any talent beyond waving from a car on the parade route, there’s no denying that celebrities visiting Indy for the 500 add a kick to the month of May. Of course, one person’s celebrity is another’s “Who’s that?”
Indy 500 needs a dose of speed
The fastest Indy 500 was run 21 years ago. Look at the pole sitters’ times, and note how far back you’d have to go (decades) to have a pole sitter’s time not make today’s field!
DECKERS: What are customers tweeting about you?
Where were you when you first heard about Osama Bin Laden? Did you hear about it on Twitter and Facebook? On TV? Or did you see it on the front page of the morning paper, 10 hours after the rest of the world?
MARCUS: Lies told about people paying income tax
“Liars!” I want to shout. People who lie deliberately and those who lie innocently afflict our nation with falsehoods.
MORRIS: May is time for pride, patriotism and speed
As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, I’m taking time to pause from the day-to-day madness and allow myself the opportunity to reflect a bit and be thankful for life’s treasures.