Opinion & Columns

While the WNBA continues to grow its fanbase, in part thanks to this year’s talented rookie class, the league continues to receive comments about the sport and its players that hinder its progress.

Is the Dunes’ promotion a one-time victory for conservation in Indiana, or the start of a new era of environmental activism in the state?

"While I’m clearing the air, I’ll add that their gay marriage harmed my traditional marriage exactly zero percent."

Preserving the history of 4790 W. 16th St.—the Indianapolis Motor Speedway—is a massive undertaking, to say the least. For new IMS Museum president Michael Good, it’s a labor of love. Taking the reins earlier this year after a stint as president of Performance Racing Industry, the self-proclaimed “car nut” and Indy native is already seeing the fruits of his labor pay off through record attendance and international acclaim.

We could save ourselves a lot of trouble if we sent children outside barefoot, in a field of clover, while eating a PB&J, like parents did when I was a runt.

Have you ever thought about the march of progress? For many millennia, our ancestors lived much the same way. You could die, be brought back to life 10,000 years later, and discover nothing had changed. Food was still wormy and rancid, tools were still made of rocks, folks still walked everywhere, and the Cubs were still losing. Then, a rapid series of developments dramatically increased the rate of human progress: the domestication of animals; the forging of metals; the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture; the emergence of written language, eventually followed by the printing press, which permitted the dissemination of ideas, which inevitably led to the computer chip, which culminated in our generation’s greatest invention, the battery-powered pepper-grinder.