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BRIAN HOWEY: Why is Obama opening an Indiana office? Autos
On Thursday, the Obama for America campaign opened up a campaign office in Indiana, a state with a century-old love affair with the internal combustion engine.
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EDITORIAL: Keep religion out of science class
An uncertain fate remains for an Indiana Senate bill that would, if it were to become law, allow public schools to teach creationism and other origin-of-life theories in their classes. But this fight may have already been grounded.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Give pets the gift of a better, longer life
It’s amazing how many of us at the Family Sports Center are involved with pets. But I recently became aware of how involved some of us have become.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Keeping Peyton in the Hoosier pantheon
When it comes to the pantheon of Hoosier sports heroes — Johnny Wooden, Knute Rockne, Bob Knight, Larry Bird, Reggie Miller, Rick Mount, Bobby Plump, George Gipp — the newest name will certainly be Peyton Manning.
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MORTON MARCUS: State government increasingly decides how we live in our cities
The ongoing trend in state-local government relations in Indiana is increasing paternalism.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Super Bowl festivities mostly for super rich
I hate being in a minority, but I guess I am. I am considerably less than thrilled over having the Super Bowl altogether too close to my back yard.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Bauer leading Democrats from disaster to catastrophe
In the end, it was the crushing fines set up in the 2011 anti-bolt legislation that caused B. Patrick Bauer and House Democrats to cave on right-to-work Wednesday.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Catalog this mail as junk
On or about Dec. 1, I picked up the mail to find three Christmas cards along with an unusual spate of catalogs. The cards reminded me that mine were still in the bottom drawer of the desk waiting to be addressed. I appreciated that.
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MARK BENNETT: Indianapolis will be on display for the nation with the Super Bowl coming to town
Someone immersed in a crash diet to make a smashing impression at a class reunion may get the desired effect.
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THOMAS L. STEIGER: More to labor issue than basic economics
Right-to-work (RTW) is another of Gov. Daniels’ crises of the season.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Daniels gives an emphatic endorsement of Lugar
Gov. Mitch Daniels offered up an emphatic endorsement of his mentor — U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar — before about 300 Republicans on Wednesday night, calling him the “most significant public official in the last century in our state. . .
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LIZ CIANCONE: Up close and personal with Da Bears' Mike Ditka
Mark Bennett’s delightful story of how his son acquired Barry Larkin’s autograph reminded me of how Number Two son scored the signature of Mike Ditka.
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MARK BENNETT: Keys to the future
Steve Witt fielded a jarring phone call in October 2007.
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STEPHANIE SALTER: The more things change, the more they … change
What the late, great Pittsburgh Pirates slugger knew, so knew the ancient philosopher, Heraclitus, the Buddha and Andy Warhol.
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EYE ON THE PIE: Legislation needs to be carefully considered, cautiously crafted
Herbert Humbler, a Hoosier more modest that most, points out a new trend in Indiana.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Mitch and Morton and the Statehouse charades
Gov. Mitch Daniels, facing west as he gave his final State of the State address Tuesday, essentially stood back-to-back with the statue guarding the eastern entrance of the Indiana Statehouse — that of Gov. Oliver P. Morton.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Small-town kids were naive, but not stupid
I told my Best Friend the other day that I thought I’d write about growing up stupid. “We weren’t stupid,” said he, “we were just sheltered and naive.” He’s right. We had no idea that there were people and things in the world that would want to hurt us.
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MARK BENNETT: Patiently waiting for Indiana's primary
While standing in a check-in line at Leonardo da Vinci Airport in Rome a few years ago, I watched an Italian woman walk past dozens of more patient travelers to grab a spot up front.
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BRIAN HOWEY: House Dems, Mourdock and showing up for work
With Indiana House Democrats not showing up for the people’s business on Wednesday — the first day of the Indiana General Assembly — they are on a collision course with regular Hoosiers, most who wouldn’t even think of blowing off a day of work.
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EYE ON THE PIE: Right-to-work is the wrong way to go in Indiana
The Indiana General Assembly would do the state a service by NOT bringing right-to-work legislation up for a vote.
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LIZ CIANCONE: She’s all for spacing out those holidays
That swooshing sound you heard may not have been the wind. It was me! I was breathing a sigh of relief that the holidays are over until the next time.
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ARTHUR FOULKES: Stop trying to plan our lives — it doesn’t work
Please stop trying to plan our lives.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Remembering Bill Cook and Steve Jobs
“Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow.”
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MS. TAKES: Some look forward to spring and garage sales
We are officially into winter and just days after the longest day of the year. We can begin counting the days until spring and can look forward to waking up to a bit of sun.
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STEPHANIE SALTER: Making room for the least among us — and their kin
Christmas. Quiet time. Down time. Not exactly the kind of day most folks tend to contemplate their fellow Americans behind bars. And yet, the United States leads the world in percentage of population in jail or prison, far ahead of second-place Russia. About 2.3 million people — nearly one in 100 adults — are incarcerated in this country.
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TRIBUNE-STAR EDITORIAL: Finally, good sense prevails
For whatever reasons that are buried deep in the entrails of Washington politics, the U.S. House Representatives leadership finally did the right thing Thursday in approving a Senate-passed bill that temporarily extends a federal payroll tax cut, lengthens the time for unemployment benefits and holds back cuts to Medicare payments to doctors.
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LIZ CIANCONE: Let gifts to lawmakers help cut the deficit
In the holiday spirit of giving, I’d like to pass along to Congress a tip I ran across in my reading. If adopted, it would enable the competing parties in Washington, D.C. to enhance federal income without raising taxes or reducing social programs.
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MARK BENNETT: In this day and age, pure quiet is hard to find
It’s hard to emulate JFK — this JFK, at least.
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BRIAN HOWEY: Right to Work is more about politics than jobs
Gov. Mitch Daniels and Republican legislative leaders say that with the unemployment rate continuing to hover at an unacceptably high 9 percent, we need “every tool available” to attract jobs.
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MARK BENNETT: Rose professor’s bit part in classic holiday movie leaves a major memory
Most of us see a bit of ourselves in “A Christmas Story.” Mike Kukral does so, literally. The 1983 movie grew into a holiday classic because so many of its poignant, awkward and hilarious moments seem to have been pulled straight from our childhood memories.
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