Opinion

Question of the Week:

January 13, 2011

Who are you rooting for to be in the SuperBowl, and why?

Anniversary celebration

January 11, 2011

By Rachael Phillips

Thirty-six years ago, we walked hand-in-hand around Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, just as we are right now this beautiful, frosty January morning.
Same location. Same people. Well, not exactly the same.
Both we and Indianapolis have changed since our wedding day. First, we have expanded. Great for the city. Not so great for us — although decades ago, this skinny unemployed secretary and pencil-shaped first-year medical student could have used a few dozen pounds. The years have been generous; we have accumulated that many and more.

Schools are a big focus this session

January 11, 2011

By State Rep. Nancy Dembowski

There will be a lot of talk about schools in the 2011 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Some of it will revolve around the next state budget and whether the governor and the new majorities in the Indiana House and Senate will be able to avoid cutting state support for public schools in our state.

Still our choice

January 11, 2011

By Jerry Bingle, general manager

Religion vs. science.
Debate over how our planet and universe came to exist has gone on for, well, who really knows how long, because there isn’t even a consensus between the two on how old the universe really is.
But could the question of whether a supreme being (God) or some scientific event (like a Big Bang) gave rise to our existence really have been so easily settled this week?