Local Opinion

Columbus’ gravitational pull in the architectural world continues to get stronger. A new festival scheduled this summer will feature a weekend of professional talks and workshops with architects, designers, photographers, writers, students and more celebrating what organizers call “America’s Hidden Modernist City.”

The recent headline in the Washington Post read: “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”

The fourth anniversary of COVID offers an economics columnist a rich set of policy lessons. Among the most pressing is the political economy of inflation. I begin by reminding readers that inflation is largely a policy choice, involving a trade-off between either increasing unemployment or reducing the purchasing power of our dollar.

Dear Amy: I have a lot of hesitation about a visit by my brother and sister-in-law this summer.

It seemed like a simple question: how many taxpayer dollars are being spent to defend Attorney General Todd Rokita’s personal law license?

Students will be graduating from Hoosier high schools and colleges in just a few months. Parents and politicians want them to stay in Indiana. I recommend they leave to see what is available elsewhere and return, after a decade or so, if they choose.

Dear Amy: ‘Tis the season for wedding advice, I guess.

Today’s editorial cartoon.

I was traveling back from Paris to Indianapolis by way of Atlanta. For reasons inexplicable to everyone on board, the live TV options on the flight from Georgia to Indiana didn’t carry the NCAA Men’s Elite Eight showdown between Purdue University and the University of Tennessee.

Boiler up!