Shutdown highlights urgent need for ‘Uncertainty Fund’
Unlike with a technology start-up, you know you’ll never get rich working for the government, but it’s about as stable and risk-free a paycheck...
A thriving winter market is a farmer’s best friend
We all eat 365 days a year — so why not have a farmer’s market year-round?Last year, we partnered with Plumer-Bowers Farmstead and Herbal...
Have index funds become ‘Frankenstein’s monster?’
Have index funds become ‘Frankenstein’s monster?’That’s the issue raised by John C. “Jack” Bogle, who invented the first index mutual fund in 1975.Just weeks...
Could there actually be a ‘President Buttigieg’?
INDIANAPOLIS -- President Pete. I mean, President Peter Buttigieg. That’s a pipe dream, right? The gay mayor of South Bend who announced he wouldn’t...
Time to start wasting time debating time
"Does anybody really know what time it is,"Does anybody really care?"--Robert William Lamm, from the “Chicago Transit Authority” album, 1969From past experience, we can guess...
Trump, the courts, the Constitution, tomcats and marriage licenses
In the summer of 2016, while the presidential campaign raged, I ran into a lawyer with impeccable Republican and conservative credentials at the Statehouse.We...
Veterans Day: A draft-card story
I’m not a veteran, and therein lies a story.I was in college during the height of the Vietnam War and all the protests that...
Healthy kids key to Indiana’s future
Indiana’s children face many significant health issues, with our opioid crisis and an alarming increase in nicotine use being two of the most urgent.Our...
Indiana’s U.S. Senate race appears close
Philip Wegmann describes Indiana’s U.S. Senate race as a battle of centrists.“The Democrat supports a border wall, and the Republican supports protections for pre-existing...
General Assembly suburban races in a fluid state
INDIANAPOLISThis column is being written during the explosive Senate Judiciary testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, but the...