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What is Brian Mahern thinking – or is he?

Although I may have quietly suspected this for a while, I am convinced that Indianapolis City-County Council member Brian Mahern does not like Black...

If charter schools are so good, how come there’s none in Meridian-Kessler?

A paragraph caught my eye in an Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) story this week about charter schools in Indianapolis. IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin interviewed...

State of the Union Address: a rehash of Obama’s ideas

Perhaps President Obama is already so comfortable in his second term that his State of the Union speech Tuesday night failed to excite me...

Call it control or reform, but something needs to be done about guns

It seems like only yesterday that I was writing an editorial about gun control. Though my most recent writing on the subject was actually...

Change lifestyle to save your heart

She’s a 31-year-old African-American woman and she’s already concerned about heart disease. Megan Bailey knows the disease runs in her blood, literally, taking the...

Indy’s inertia over teens hanging out downtown

If you ask young people in Indianapolis what there is to do for fun, for recreation, their answers will be limited to going to...

Raise minimum wage to lift the economy

As a longtime businessman, I see a deficit in America that has received far too little attention. That’s the wage deficit experienced by growing...

Regarding openness, transparency and accountability

It’s critical that non-profits, utilities and those in charge of public schools be open, honest and transparent with the communities they serve. This week’s...

It’s time to move the bipartisan immigration reform proposal through Congress

Immigration reform. It has been a hot topic for several years, but now some cohesive solutions may soon be under way. Earlier this week,...

A more equal military? Bring back draft

Editor's note: Rep. Charles B. Rangel is the U.S. representative for New York's 13th Congressional District. He is a decorated Korean War veteran with...

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